Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-11-23

confidently be ieved that petroleum will il
some shape form one of the most charmin.
/ tints ever transferred to canvas.
JERSEY CITY REFINERIEs
! These refneries, seven in nnmber-Ear
/ Sickles, Parrows, Hazen II Co, Heinrich,
& Sommers, Vest, Excelsior, Radiant
| Westervelt Il Co,-turn out about thre.
hundred and fifty larreIs each per week
Most Of this is exported to Europe, wher.
1t is used in fumi s, in lighting streets
and IN ch mical tests and operations. Al
eighty cents per gallon, the use of this oil
as lumina.or is held cheaper than gas
at - 80 per one thousand feet The ne-
cessity of trimming lamps is obviated by
the use Of PETROLEUM
RISING TIE sCLPHURoUs GAS At WELLS.
At first the su phurous gas at the we'll,
caused considerable annoyance, but in
stead Of being SO at this time it is brought
to account in generating steam to prope
the engine, boring apparatus, &c. A pipe
is so arranged as to carry the gas off from
the tank in a pipe into the furnace of the
engine where it is ignited, and does away
with the use Of coal as fuel, an expensi e
article in such localities.
LARGE PRODUCING WELLS
Among the argest producing wells in
the Oil creek region at one time was the
Empire well on the Funk farm. 1t ut
one time flowed three thousand barrels
per day. The Reed well, on Cherry river
one of the best producing we Is in the re-
gion, flowing now about three hundred
barrels per day The IIighgate company
whose wells are mostly located on McEl-
benny farm, is principally owned in Ger
maay. The Sherman is located on the
Funk farm, and yielded originally one
thousand barrels per day
PETROLEUM AT OTHER PLACES
Besides Western Pennsylvania, West
erI Virginia, Northwestern New York
and Ohio, petroleum has been discovered
in Kentucky and in Michigan. In Ken
lucky the loca ity is in the centra' part of
the State, and gueriias interfero with the
working of the wells, as they formerly did
in Western Virginia. In Michigan OF has
been found in Van Buren, county, limpid
rs Vinegar, and of a similar color They
are now boring at Burning Spring SC
called by the indians on Lake Michigan
with fair prospects of a handsome yield
The boring IS through a white sandy sur
| II, 4 I.lan
The oil discoveries in Europe, the Crimea
Wallachia, &c, are comparatively unim-
p0rtant when compared with those in
America
Among the new companies nttractin"
attention here, is what is ca led tie Astcr
Burning Spring Land Company, who
have, according to reliable surveys, Il tract
Of seven thousand acres of the most val
mable mineral and oil territory on tie
Little Kanawha river, Western Virginia.
Other companies, whose lands are located
in the same region, are also pushing their
lands into market There is n general re
.ival all over Petro i'll since the Hera'd
has exposed its extent and riches to the
world The whole Western Yankee ma
ton seems to have a sub strata of petrole
um and the petroleum aristocracy have
ample assurance of Il long continued, If
not an everlasting, fountain of supply mp
on which to rest the basis of their title rs
being the newest, most unselfish and most
wealthy aristocracy in this democratic
land.