The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-06-06
Fun Among the OiI.


licOn gets of by far the best burlesque on
the exaggerations of the oil reports which
we have seen. 1t ia as follows -
Oil upon Pigeon Creek--A bays Journey
What we saw and How we Saw 1t.
The oil fever las taken such fresh hold |
upon SO many Of our friends up the creek,
and such wonderful stories are daily bro
down 10 town, that, anxious to develope |
their truth, we ordered horse and bug |
gy, and started for the "theatre Of tx
element" on prospecting tour, early !
last Monday. Taking the valley OF Pigeon |
Creek, we first came to tho old salt we'll |
Superintendent Caldwell and his assist
ants eplashing up to the knees in fine
article Of oil worth thirty seven cents per
gallon, They say this oil is very good,
and they could make very good living
at it, but Mott Appleton has raised the
price of barrels, and they can't afford 10
save it this year. We understand that
Mr.. Vanvoorhis offers 10 lease them ten
acres of ground to raise pumpkins on; the
seed was brought from California by Hud
Williams, who says they will grow large
enough TO hold five barrels. It's intend
ed to grow these enoru Gus pumpkins
binding them with hickory poles and
bracing them inside with oak sapling, to
keep them from warping or splitting,
At Blythes, we found William, Jim
and John at work, and they were having
first rate luck. Eight feet from the sur
face they struck vein of first quality
Cincinnati lard, worth at the mine four
teen cents pound They have taken
out twenty-five barrels day for four
weeks are satisfied /; don't want to sell.
AT Colvin's we found all well, and times
prosperous. Twenty-Five feet under the
ground they struck vein of wintergreen
hair oil, which yielded well. They also
found a few pockets of pomatum, and a
thin vein of moustache cosmetic ; not
profit able to work though some of the
girls in the neighborhood have preserved
some fine specimens of cryslaiaed poma-
tum in quartz. Are short of barrels-a
fine chance for q good cooper.
At Reeds mill the principal find has
been tallow 1t is found at the d pth of
5000 feet, mixed with mica, brown stone
and white marble. The process of melt
ing tallow is interesting, but we have tn't
time to describe it. There is generally
about seventy y-three per cent. of pure tai
| low.
At Snyder's tan yard they are putting
down well which promises finely. A
little suet is found occasionally in thin de-
posts, and some fine specimens of whale
blubber and red precipitate ointment have
been discovered here.
II. Fry is working fine vein Of fresh
butter. This valuable mineral is found
in great quantities in combination with
lard rock, dripping stone and red hair
granite it is washed with a cradle and
long tom, and in some instances with a
quartz crusher and sluice stones.
At Leand Beazell's we found them
busy in boring well that gave better ap.
pcarance than any one on the creek-and
it was whispered around that the boys
had surf ce indications of sausage meat
with strong hopes of thick layer o.
Yandermark's patent fence.
They don't want to sell.
At Wilherow's blacksmith shop was a
great crowd collected to hear Josiah Tay
lor tell about the progress of the we'll
Isl had come there 10 get his horse shod
and said at six feet he had tapped veir
of Croton Gil as big as gimblet; at thir
teen feet he encountered layer of sof
soap /; at fourteen feet he struck veil
, Of castor oil, dscharging barrel an hour
, at fourteen and half feet he found I
valuable nugget of Wilson's pills, small
pocket of oil of cinnamon, and crevic
: that yielded ninety hogsheads of pur'
: spermaceti and then at eighty-two fee
, depth they struck lard by which the.
knew that butter was near after cutting
through six feet of solid leaf lard, the.
b. were awarded by striking butter.
We stopped for dinner at Newton Van
q voorhis' and he took us out to see hug
cave on his farm, from the top of which
hung, like icicles, millions of candles, sil
to the pound.
S David Fournier has struck a splendiC
z hole of apples, and is bringing them u
!, by a sand pump fifteen bushels by tn
hour he hopes soon to reach the bottom
where there are indications of first elias
article of cider.
We then came down to Simon Wilson
t and up the hill to the Baptist church, AN
then down towards Hiram RABIES. Her
we saw a soap grease bog, and the bill s
Il slippery with the little rivulets of oil oo2
= ing out, that man might turn back hi
+ coat tails, sit down, and slide down III
= hill two miles and half, without fricho
enough to make his pantaloons need
! patch.
d Stopped in TO see our good old friend
l. VIM Wickerham, who struck vein {
It fine castor oil, and the boys were out o
. the farm hunting for tree that Dor
: = ready made glass bottles, with the corE
} in and gilt-edge labels on.
IS We came down on the river past M
is Kernan's, who hallooed to us as we pass
d ed that he had discovered the hill to B
+. solid rock candy, and wanted to know
we would like TO lease half an acre fC
! one million dollars. Told him we hadn
'e the change alone with us So we iogge
along home, and took down these impe
feet notices from memory. We hay
,r omitted some things, but not many.