The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-09-21
The Great OIL Well at Tideoute.

The editor of the Warren (Pa.) Mail 70.
Gently visited the great Tideouto artesi IN
oil we'll, and furnishes his paper with the
following amusing account of tho operations
Of tho remarkable phenomena. He says!
Tho well is l24 feot decp. At first il
looked like nothing extra, though it was
called good show. When they put in
hand pump last week to try it, all at once
il broke out like torrent throwing out go
or 20 barrels an hour This was the story
Ethat we went down to see about. When wo
Egot thcro it was plugged up tight, Kim
Russell huving it in charge. They had
ecr<t7tttSj0 barrels, and 20 or 80 moro lay
in tie river. We tried to get Kim to stir
tho animal up. so il would perform again
tor our especial benefit But hO wouldn't
said ho couldn't hold tit would soil his
best clothes and squirt over all creatures
and the like. So va aud fifty othor anxious
seekers for knowledge and oil undur diif.
cultics had to pocket our wrath aud slyly
guess there was some humbug nhout it
But tho next day down came John Sill. We
told him our fix--inust 90 homo after din
ner--boys must have copy--wo wanted an
itcm and so far must report tho things as
faurc--instead Of barrel minute il
hadn't run a drop. He always likes to
help the printer, aud says he TO Kim, "lotUr
run" Says Kim, Just as you say John.
but shant promise what she'll do So.
he got on his old clothes like q candidate
for Recorder, aud over tho river he went.
Kun was evidently iimid. llu was more
/ than half afraid "she wouldn't start" but to
keep mp a show ot confidence, he agreed to
givo US 81 0O0 # she didn't or $500 if sue
dd. At the first he chisolcd out tho big
! plug. Not drop camc. lie put his ear
to tho pipo aud said ho "could hear rum.
blin' in her bowels" Thon ho put in the
hand pump. Kim stood ready with big
plug with n half inch holo through it.
Young Cot ell gave the pump three or four
pulls. whcn the oil began to rise up two or
thrre feet. rising higher every second. Out
they jorked tho pump and in Kim drove
the plug, the oil in tho mean tmo squirting
all over him from head to foot. and some
twelve feet high through the half inch hole.
Kim pitched for tho river to wash the oil
out OF his eye. He WAS creased the sickcst
of any candidate VIC evor heard of Then
they put Il pail over the stream, forcing tho
oil down into the barrel and through the
pipU into two large cistcrns or tubs, said
to mold fifteen barrels each. Ono of these
was full and the other more than half full,
when we had to leave. We staid about
three quarters of an hour. 1t must have
run u barrel in less than three minutes.
through only half inch augor hole We
have no doubt it would run IA barrel in less
than ono minute through tho whole bgnoss
oe the pipe. Whatit singular, it is all clear
ol-Ihero is hardly q drop Of water in
gallon. They say it will run over thus about
% or 80 barrels every time it flows. Wheth-
or by pumping Igain in an hour it would
run over again, las not yet been tried.
whom it could be tested. Like all other
wells, it will probably throw off the gas by
few days self pumping and run no more
without help. At any ratio it must be the
biggest sort of IA wcl-quito {. fortune for
its lucky owners.