The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-08
THE bln9 FvFN1Nc H1Ffn SATURDAY, ocToBHR

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ierees arc rnlrs up at tqtonia opposite, and
hey pTosruttd pleasant appearance IN contrast
gitb he wretchcd aspect Of the "city" proper.
A bash into On Dorado.
In company with . friend ~e took horse ono |
or,n,on iur the interior. And then view Ot |
b,. hole vast tNrciu ur tbis remarkable region |
sus pru,cupd. Tlcrr was OF, oil, everywhere.
be cr,,k on each fde vas Aned with dcrrickq
as isr ls the eve cuuid reacb, looking like gcnii
1r yiouts In fairy lind. Iho wells we're pumping,
ne ias vas biuw'rH ~ walking b'ams OF the
,rgitts a,tr hupuWf ~ and down like 50 many
tra,sr,ppll Ut byr pcd. II was wonderful
tirLt, atd a. Vg g. 7Ftr n the midst Ut th' most
iutut,uu, pot,nry ,bc region, pernAps 10 will
rot De- narlrOPr p So. i've a more iuli aud prAc-
tcaI stU.turci sN"v..,-
Piur ct ~ Obtained.
Parties co1nre iu ibis rcgon either buy or
lcas, jlr land ii G.cj aNiug usually one-haltt tho
Oi as o royalty 20 tl' .WdhOldsr Mt r getting
al Ci piu' ard tg" Turh'Hrry necessary TO putdbWh
the VeiL cuusFtiug rl ortyiug wheels connecting
tie Cupiuc eitb n woiKiDR beam, said beam
haNitr q about thutt .iu,b suOke, the process OF
uii!lirc ls,"onmcuD,d. An iron pipe, six inches
In diameter inside, uuI one inch th!3k OF metal,
is Driven INTO 'hy cartu from fo.y - sixty tces,
with yum, IKE a sr,Ic-drvCr until the solid
rock NJ reached. Aus being cleaned Out by
mems Of pump Db 100 .iN feet long, with aVtve
iu the bottom the tools, weighing some eight
Iuncrpd pouucs, ard thirty. Eve feet IN leugtn,
are aftachrd 10 On iu and half cable, and the
process Of duling IN the solid rock commenced.
A tCu'rt-bit, shout trtC and a half inches wide,
very sharp, Is first used; atd after running thM
tr, m three 70 six feet % rammer, four and a half
inchtS across the face, nearly round, is used TO
make The hole round and smooth, the slnd-pump
being useo 70 draw ca. the driilings As the WOfk
pTOgfessts.
passing through % slate rock, the first sand rock
is r, acbCd. This rs aOblt thirty feet thick After
passing through q soap rock some hundred and
twenty feet, comes the second sand rock. This
wares from ten 10 Ny. uty-hve feet In thickness.
Passing through another soap and slate rock
comes the third sand rock, Vt depth Of about
four hundred and thirty feet. In this rock the
oil rs found in the lnrgeFt quantities. Some small
wells have been ubtGingd in the second sand rock.
Auer the well Is down 10 the depth of four hun
cred and sixty feet i is tubcd with two inch gas
pine, and if 10 does not flow spontaneously,
pumped TO see ifthere be oil in it.
The Results of Boring.
1t sometimes happens that the boring proves
untuCcessful, even ai!er months OF labor Then
these wells are RraUdJned, and new ones sunk,
| and so on until Oi is struck. When tins Is done
the oil fret flows slowly, or, in some instances, 1t
| TushCs up with such force and volume as to send
tie s.rCam as high rs The derrick, some forty feet
and carr ing with IL al the heavy boring appara-
| tus 4 well like this produces sometimes as high
! as fourteen hundred barrels per day, when II
will suddenly suOsi q, or cease flowing altoge-
| tber. Then the pump is resurted to, and the oil
!
| twenty barrels per day. Iu the meantime other
wells are being sunk, and, on good producing
flats or bluffs, viii yiGd from foTty TO fifty barrels
| per day. ana IN other localities be utterly unpr0-
ductye. IL frequently happens that veins of salt
wafer, of the highest saline erayitanon, are
struck (as at Funklin), from which the best
quality of salt could be produced by applying
some of the apparatus in use in the salt works at
Syracuse, N. Y. But people boring for oil think
of nothing but OIL and If their wells should force
up golden nuggets they would probably feel dis
appointed.
six hundl ed and ter IL Il, flowed for four months
one hundred barrels per day; but stopped and
has now been abandoned, with others in that
locality. But so confident are the owners OF the
land that oil is to be obtained there that specula-
tion has revived, anu eight wells are nov going
down on what is called The Tallman farm, between
Meadvlle and Franklin. This farm has u front
of one mile and third on French creek. Although
the oil pI oduceu here is in small quantities, the
| qualify rs superior equal to the celebrated
| "MCCca" oil of Ohio. The investigations on Oh
creek prove the supp there 70 be large, ana that
the results of boring are almost as favorable as
year ago; and the fact that a well has been sunk
at so great distance as Erie Pa, indicates tina,
tie process, of boring over the whole intermediate
! region may he continued with results not dis.
similar from the above.
Dashing un-A brilliant Coup pile.
Passing on up the creek, upon o road almost
| impossible for man or beast our RosinantC
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| nearly pitching its rider into petroleum tank o.
several Thousand gallons capacity. The gallant
! steed was nOby Teined up, aud in violation o
| the profound axiom of Old Abe, that it was "dan
| geTOus 10 swap horses crossing stream we die
| so jUyfully, gnd Obtained much better anC
| smeI tOoiCd animal
Without further dsa ter we passed Graf, Has
son & Co.. s, the Ciapp iurm, Carpenters run, anC
reached the BGChanan farm. This farm wa,
| originally leased for oil purposes from che
| BuCbunaHS, VINO originally came from Ireland
and 90 not appear 10 be satisfied with theiI
| bargain.
The old man is totcring towards the grave, L
| very iut,mpeTa,e, and remarked to us, grum
| Oirgly, while fumblng between his fingers
| couple OF five cent stamps, 81 might a bin w0rtt
a million this day; but now I'm poor man, no
| worth hundred thOusan', and Iae wife nigi
| dead with the drapsy and the piles" GOvernO
| Curtin has two thousand shares in the Buchanan
| Company. The farm is now worked by q com
! pany called the Buchanan Farm Oil Company, :,
who have declared dividend of one per cent
per month for September, besides eXpending
large amount OF earnings for engine, tools, &c
A number of new wells are going down on tn
property without expense to the company. TIL
present yield of OIL 20 the company Is 40 barrel
per day A "natiyu" who had some stock in thi
company was asked the other day if he wante
more stock. "No," he replied not exactly com
pretending the iuterogatory "I've three horse
and a yoke Of slC'TS Already" Not unlike anothe
millionaire, owner OF an adjoining farm, who's
daughter had been placed at a fashionable board
iDe-scbool, sDd on being informed by the prn
cpal that she huu 40 capacity" declared h
was bound TO "get her one, cost what it might"
McGlIHiOckvtIle, dc.
We next came upon McClintockville, with
hotel some houses, Hnd oily indications all about
pass the immensely valuable II. AcClintock an
Widow McClintock farms, with wells pumpln
and flowing in every direction, the income froI
which would ma ntan a Collins line of steamer
TO Europe, but is being largely squandered i
dissipation, and reach
Housewife
in time to make a dinner at the hotel on pork an
beans and caTet. Here we found number G
Eastern gentlemen, and a lively spirit of specula
tion going on. There were several retired SO
captains in the company, who, in the absence G
cotton freights, have gone into the petroleum
speculation with no Il tie fervor. There were ais
some New Workers present, and plentiful sprnB
ling Of Philadelphigus, with here and there
returned Californian, making his pile by the sal
of cod Crawford large amount Of busines
is transacted in Housewife In the transfer G
leases, buying aud selling lands, &c. The cOuntr
around abOuu0s in rich oil territory, the Han
mOnd we'll, Oh tic steele farm, being the mos
productive suglC well in tho vicinity hOwiu
two hundred nud i.ty barrels per day. Tn
Trundy wells arc also successfully worked.
Tbs next fsTU IN Importance is the Rynd farm
/, lying between tie Steele farm and Blood farm
IL comprises ILT,c gndred and eighty acres
oil territory, on Oil reek, at the mouth of Cherr
Tree run, extending rom the creek to Cherry TuI
Great activity Is shgWn in the operations on th
farm, there being some twenty-five paying well
: working prodLgiDu abOut one hundred barrel