Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-10-25
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Fun Among the OIL.

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sylvania and elsewhere, the Monongahela
pa Republican got off the following bur.
lesqne on the exaggerations Ct the oil re.
ports.
The oil fever has tnken such fresh hold
upon 50 many Of our friends up The creek,
aud such wonderful stories are daily brought
down to town. that, 0nxous to deveIope
their Truth, we ordered horse and buggy,
and started for the theatre of excitement,
on prospecting tour, early last Monday.
Taking the valley of Pigeon creek, we first
came to the old salt well at Vanvoorhis'
mill. There we found Superintendent Call
vel aud his assistants slashng up o the
knees in fne article Of oil, worth thirty.
seven cents per gallon They soy this oil
IS very good, and they could make very
good living out of it, but Mott Appleton
has raised the price Of barrels, and they
cant afford to save it this year. We un.
derstand that Mr. VaDvoorhs offers to
lease them ten acres of ground to raise
pumpkins on; the seed was brought from
California by Hud w Hams, who says they
will grow large enough to hold FIVE barrels.
Ii is intended to grow these enormous pump
klns-binding them with hickory poles and
bracing them Inside with oak sapIingS, to
keep them from warpiug Lr splitting.
AT Blythe's we found William, N, and
John at work, ond they were having first
rate luckl Eight freI from the surface they
struck a vein of FIRST quality Cincinnati
lard, worth ut the mine fourteen cents
pound. They haze taken uuj twenty two
barrels d'y for fur weeks; are satisfied;
dou't want to sell
A CovIA'S We found all well, and lines
prosperous. Twenty two feet under ground
they atruch a vein of wintergreen huir oil,
which yielded we'll They alsJ found few
pockets of pomatum, and thin yein Of
mus ache cosmetic; not profitable to work,
though some Of The girls in the neighbor.
hood had preserved some fie specimens e
crystaIzad pomatnm in quartz. Are short
OF barreIs-a fine chaucC for II good cooper.
AT Reeds mill the principal fad has
been talIow. 1t is found at the depth of
1000 it,, mixed with mica, brown stone,
aud white marble. The process Of melting
tnIiOw is quite Interesting, but we haven't
time to describe it. There is generally
about seventy three per cent. of pure ta'low.
Al Snyder'S tan yard they are putting
down well which promises finely. A lit.
lie Snet Is found occasionally in thin depos
It's, and some fine specimens Of whale bIub.
Der and red precipitate ointment have been
discovered here.
IL. Fry is working fnc vein Of butter.
ms valuable mineral is found in great guam
tlIIes III combination with lard rock, drip.
ping stone AMI red-hair granite; it is washed
"Ilh cradle and long tom; and in some
instances worked with u qnarrz crushcr aud
sIuice stones.
AT Leauder Bcaz It's we found them
busy boring well that SuVe better. ap. /
Pearahre than any one on the creek-lud !
1t was whispered around that the boys had |
SUI lace indications of sausage menf, with |
strong hopes Of thick layer Of Wander
marks patent fence.
They don't want to sell
At Wilherow's blacksmith shop was a !
great crowd collected o hear Josiah Taylor |
tell about the progress Of the well. Isl had
come here to get his horse Shod, aud said
at SIX feet he had tapped vein of Cro,on
ol as big US a gimlel; at lhirleOn feet he en-
countered layer OF soft soap al fourteen
feet he struck a vein of castor oil disoharg-
ing barrel an hour ut fourteen and
hall feet he found beautiful nugget OF
W son's pills, a small pocket Of oil Of Gin
aamon, and crevice that yielded ninety
hogsheadS Of pure Spermacei and then at
eghty-two feet depth they struck lard, by
" hich they knew that butter was near al
ter cutting through six feet of solid leaf
lard they were rewarded by striking bu;.
ter.
We stopped for dinner at NewtowD Van
voorhis, aud he took rs out TO see a hinge
cave on his farm, from the top Of which
hung Ike icceS, millions Of candles, six o
the pound.
David Fourier has struck q splendid hole
Of apples, and is bringing them up by Il
sand pump-dfteen bushels by the hour
ho hopes soon to reach the boti ON, where
there are indications Of a st class article
Of cider.
We then came down to Simon Wilson's
and up the hill to the Baptist ChuFch, aud
lhen down towards Hiram Rabess. Here
We saw a soap grease bog, and the hill so
slippery with the little rvulets of oil Oozng
out that a man might turn buck his coat
tail sit down. aud slide down the hill two
miles and half without friction enough to
make his pautaIoons need patch
Stopped to see our good old friend Wm.
Wckerham. who struck fue vein of cas-.
tor oil, and the boys were out on the farm
hunting for a tree that bore ready made
glass bottles, with the corks in and gilt edged
labels on.
We came down on the river, past Mr..
Kerman's, who hallooed to us as We passed
hat he had discovered the bill to be solid
'ock candy, and wanted to know il We would
ike to lease half an acre for one million
lolars. Told him we hadn't the change
with US. So We jotted along home, and
look down these imperfect facts from memo
y. We have omitted some things, bat not
many.
The Washington correspondent OF the
Baltimore Sun says, he is authorized to
state by the Third Assistant Postmaster.
"a Il MT the iutpntiOn nf tho |