The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-02-14
A Wonderful OIL We'll.

we are informed tnRt, last week,
the most extraordinary discovery OF
oil was made in Euniskillen, known
in the annals OF oildom. It seems,
for months past, man named Shaw
has been sinking a we'll in that re.
gion, which offered no extraordinary
prospects, of more success than had
attended other wells 10 the vicinity.
But steadily Shaw pursued bis work
OF digging and drilling, until he had
well nigh exhausted all his energies
"a we'll as his scsnty means. But,
although down over forty feet in the
earth, and thrice that depth in the
rock, he believed. like Richelieu,
that there was DO such word "a 'Ril
and 40 persevered, until, at last,
when down TO the depth, some cay
oi two hundred feet others make it
less--hs struck . vein OF oil which
spurted mp out OF the well to the
height o. twenty feet, and filled the
well TO running over in less than
thirty minutes, ard even now boils
out of the we'll to the height Ct some
ten feet.
A soon as it was found that the
flow of oil was likely TO he OF consid
erable duration, conductors were laid
to adjoining wells, which were all
soon filed with oil barrels were
procured and they were filed emp.
ty tanks were borrowed in the neigh.
borhood, and they too were speedily
filed. Indeed, it soon became evi
dent that the requisite number o.
barrela could not be procured to rrr
vent the enormous waste. and tue
result was that IL short time the
well bad vomited forth a sufficient
quantity OF oil to srbmcrge the vi
cInity to the depth ol several inches
Tho history Of Sha~'s proceed
ings il 3 curious one. 1t seems that
/ he commenced the well early in the
Summer, and worked along, meet.
ing almost daily @iih bad luck. -
Oas day the soap atone would both.
er him; the next day his drill woulG
break. Indeed, go nnlucky dii b,
seem to be, that every one marked
1t. To illustrate how hard MP he
was, we may state that little while
before he struck this ox'raorlinaiy
vein OF oil, he wanted to get his drill
.harpcned, bnt could not for want Of
means. and no one woull trust him
So back to his well be went with hi,
old blunt drill, and commenced peck
in. away. In a very short while
down went his drill and up came III.
oil in the extraordinary quantities
above stated. Tnn well is locate
on Lat No SIS. and is bu, 4 shor
distance from q well owned ant
worked By Me.sr. For1yih " Camp
hsll, or Chatham. Slaw is u rest
d-ni .! Port Huron.
o. course the waste is immense
slthou!h every effort has been and
ID being made to secure the valnah',
material. We ere informed tnaI
shortly after this extraordinary fox
. ni oil wss struck, Shaw was otftret
S25 900 for his chance, and actually
refused it. ltis stated tia, the dali,
, waste q! the best OF oil at the well
, Ut tho present time, is fully on,
thonsa' d barrels q day, il not more
. Here ia the most wonlerf. i in stancJ
; u; man being made rich in la,
that we have recently heard Of
/, In addition to the above. but i,
connection with il, we heard per
u son the other day graveiy stat, iha
a project wac on iant TO build . tan
near Shaw's well, and lay pipes fro,
I it to the River Sydenham, throug
r which pipes the oil was 30 be cor
veyed to vessels lying at or nes
a Dresden, whose holds were to b
filled, and the oil thus conveyed i
;. bulk to whatever part OF the worl
that might be selected.
2 -[Chathana Planet.