Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-03-13
0ilItams.

There is no change to note in the Oil
business in Mecca. The wells continue 20
yield about as they have heretofore done,
new wells are constantly being put down,
and ncB steam engines are daily being
taken through this place. We think the
number of engines now in Mecca, cannot
fall short of 275 or 500. The price of
real estate, although considerably higher
than last year, still continues COMPARE
lively low. The Oil Refinery We arc in
formed is nov completed, is in full opera
ton. and is throwing out a very superior
article of oil.
The oil territory is much more cxten-
sive than was at first supposed. Oil is
found from Powers corners south to the
line of Bazetta, a distance of two and a
half miles. At Abells corners. two miles
east of Powers Corners, a well is in full
operation, yielding, las We arc informed
from 4 to G barrels per day.
VIRGINIA OIL WELLS.
LITTLE kANAwHA-The Parkersburg
Nelrs has a leng article on tie progress of
oil discoveries on the the Kanawha, from
which We learn that tbs few wells-six in
number-already completed, yield more
then tho aggregate Of those sunk in Penn
sylvania. The first well was opened by
Mess1s. S. d. & +. J. Harms of Pennsyl
Tania, who leased the old Rathbone salt
well, cleaned it out aud by constant
pumping secured a flow Of oil which has
increased steadily up to twenty-five or
thirty bbls. per day. Last summer J. C..
& J. Y. Rathbone, each COMMENCED boring
on their contiguous farms; the we'll of the
former yields from two hundred and fifty
to three hundred barrels of oil per day
The news of this success drew large num-
bers to the spot, and many wells are now
in progress. though bat three are pumping.
One Of these-the Camden-s'ruok oil
three weeks since at 1876 feet. and though
stopped up a part of the time, has thrown
out in two weeks one thousand seven hun
bred barrels Of oil. Weir & Darneil struck
oil at lI5 rect, and though four or five
hundred barrels were thrown out on tie
first day. it has been closed most of the
time since. o ing te a scarcity Of barrels.
Lcwelfyn & Wilson dug a hole eight feet
! square by the mouth OF their well, from
which the oil was filed into barrels, and
four hundred were filed in the first ten
hours. the well being stopped more than
half the time. the hands being unable TO
fill with sufficient raPidity.
(ThG above is greatly Ozsrated &c have
no doubt-EDs. C%HRoNIcLE)
PENNSYLVANIA
LAWRENCE Con- the ed ult., the
workmcn boring on the Kirk farm, Law
renee county, struck a vein Of gas at 81
feet. which rushed up, ignited at the stove
in the shanty and burned Alex. NJ. Gray
and John litzer slightly. a large num-
Der of wells are in progress, but the Straw
bridge, alone, is yiel2ing, it supplies seven
or eight bbls. pc diem.
Armstrong Co.-The Westmorcland Oil
Company. who are now boring for oil on
the farm of Mr.. John Wood, of Frecport,
Armstrong county, have struck another
vein of oil at the depth of GO feet, having
struck the first vein at 90 feet.
MEEcBs COUSTr.-The Wkig Of Mon
day says-Hundreds of our citizens with
in a year past have engaged toa greater or
less extent in the oil business-some at
Mecca, some in Venango. some in Crawford,
som in Lawrence county, and others again
in Kentucky and Virginia. VIZ M safe
ly presume that several hundred thousand
dollars have wiain the time mentioned
been diverted by or citizens from their
ordinary business, and invested i oil sites,
derricks. engines, labor, &c, &e.
ANOTHER STRIKE.-We learn that a
company of Pittsburgers-Messrs Reed,
M'Cargo and Otbers-Sho have been Dor
ing for Oh on the Muskingum, a few miles
below GAINESVILLE, struck oil OH Thursday
at tEenty-three feet. 1t is estimated that
the yield will reach nearly one hundred
barrels per day of oil Of s superior quality.
OIL IN CALIFoRxtA.-The Petaluma
argus states that some officers of the
United States Army discovered an oil
spring in MendOcino county. which rem
d'red thirty gallons of oil per day.
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BIackwood's Magazine.