Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-28

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B9- AnouT Or.-At time when man
who refuses to manifest nm iuterestin oil is
regarded as lacking enterprise and pro-
per regard for his family, everything in
relation 10 that subject will prove interes-
ting. The earth is being bored on all
sides of US. The rage for speculation new
er.nn so high Even the California gold
excitement scarcely .qunlled tue state of
things existing in many parts of this Sec
tion of country and tits not much wonder,
for there las been more money made on
the little Kanawha recently in one week
by a streak of luck, than was ever made
in California in two. Still tue boring goes
on. Merchants who have heretofore dealt
in fancy articles, aud handled tape, are
found digging away in greasy duchess
Doctors, lawyers, judges, mechanics. aud
farmers are head over heels lathe Gasiness.
II the thing keeps on the earth will be like
a vast many aued Locomotive boiler.
a day OrtwO ago German named RO-
SenthOll struck vein at Smiths Ferry, on
the Ohio above this city. Nothing but
pure water came up for au hour. Amer
that thirty-one barrels OF oil were produ.
ced In nine hours. Since that time the
well has produced at the rate of one barrel
eff pure oil every eighteen minutes. The
well is Ts feet deep. A Mr.. Thompson
struck vein in the same place at depth
of 20 feet, and.in the FIRST sixty-two min
utes obtained three barrels Of oil. It has
continued to flow regularly ever since.
Some IS years ago, we'll was sunk ON
what is now known US tue Browning farm,
above this city, on the Virginia side, which
at tue time failed to give supply Of wa
ter, but did give indications of oil. A
company has been formed in sten6envile
with the design of sinking shan 10 the
same well, with the expectation Of striking
good vein of the oil which ATTRACTS so
much speculative attention just now, The
company have reached depth Of 1871
feet, and within day or two, expect to
reach the depth TO which the well was for
merly SINK.
great many reports have came up from
the Little HauaWha, which sound so much
like Aanchausenism that We have been
afraid 10 risk our vcracity in tho publish-
ing of them; they will haze to Ge believed
some time or other, and our readers may
"a w,ll commence realizing the truth now.
The Camden we'll, on tue Little Hanaw ha,
spputs oil periodically, four or Eve times
every day. In QUE Of these kpouts, few
days since, a lUndrel barrels of pure oil
were thrown out ia thirty minutes. Short
~ after this the we'll spouted for an hour
anil half, filling the vats in few min
utUs. The workmen finding 1t impossible
10 barrel the oil as fast rs it came out, got
o couple of Attboats, about frty feet Ioag,
which were placed in The tirer, diroOilr
opposite tue we'll, and trough placed
at Il mouth sthe we'll 50 as 10 ruu the
oiliutO the Loats, in which way the two
boats we're filled with oil The exact
amount thus secured was not accurately
ascerainsd, but must have beca three
or four hundred barrels. between
ths flows the well is pumped With tue aid
of the sweep used in boring, as fast as the
men can Sill the barrels, when any can be
bad.
The LeWellen we'll has produced aud
will produce fourteen hundred aud farty
barrels every tveaty-foar hours, which
will sell in Now York for S3O,l6O. This
quantity aows, says the Parkersburg RsU.,
whose editor saw the we'll aud kaows ell
about it, tron u very snail nRertare. If
the whole aperture were LEFT open, .aad
yats large enough aud barrels sulicient
could be had, it voald cer4aialy yield eve
or six timea as much oil from the full size
OF the hole as new flows from The one
eighth of an inch on the outside 81 tbe
hole, making the possible yield OF the we'll
as high as one htRdred tdoEsead GslLars
a0Orth Of pure oil in twOnty four hours.-
This is not only said to be true, but the
possible est uabs hero made is much be-
low whA: the figures will show. Thops-
andS of people arc boring ala aleug the
river aud in tthe vicinity Of 9araiag
Springs. Three or fesr eompsates freR
this city, have leased little patches Of, land
and gone vigorously to work.
R8-A BoLO Observation-Disclosures dur.
ing night before last, a bold barElary Was
committed at the hardware store Of cit,
Son ( Co., corner Of Aonrss ana Market
streets. Tho thieves reached through the
iron bars from the outside, broke paue
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