The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1864-12-19
Oil Intelligence.

On IN MARION CoUNUT.-The Fair
mont National says: W. J. Beans, in com
pany with others, is making extensive
preparations to clean out and bore deeper
the old salt we'll on the farm Of Mr.. John
son Thrall, some three miles below thi,
place. The derrick and engine have been
erected and it will not be long until &C
tive operations begin The we'll was used
about thirty years ago as a salt we'll, and
there is no doubt but oil then existed
indeed we have seen an affidavit OF that
tact from q gentleman who assisted in
boring and operating the we'll ut thai
time He states that the oil was skim
med from the surface Of the salt twatsl
tank with buckets and thrown into the
furnace as fuel Much of it ran into the
liver and was wasted We judge from
What We can learn that it produced about
balol per day The old we'll is sup
posed TO be about 9O0 feet deep. 1t is
the intention of the Company now ope
rating it to sink it considerably deeper
Ii is mole than probable that the oil rock
sjust reached at 900 feet. aud, as the
OilGearing rock is, itself, known to te
several hundred feet thick, that deeper
boring will develop oil in large quaint
ties
The Mes>rs Swishers ale boring by hand
awell lower down OH the other side OF
tie riyer at the mouth of Little Creek.
Hey ale down to the depth OF sixty Oh
seventy feet They are determined to
siye thorough test.
Ageat many farms have been leasedln
luereht parts of the county, and with
tie opening of Spring we look for boring
Noegln IN earnest ...-.ss.-9-.
Just over the line, in Wetzel county,
Twelve miles from Warrington, Pitts
Ourg Company is boring with good pros
peCt Of success. AT the depth Of thirty
uiOu1ty feet they found a coal vein thir-
'eeh ieet thick A strike" OF two IN
Ills county is all that is needed TO create
hs most intense excitement. ii- -t
AoNoNenh COUNTY. Morgan
Town POst says: We daily hear of oil
Isnds being bought and sold; to enumer-
ATE all the why's aud wherefores' would
occupy columns but We cannot forbear
Mentioning the Jonathan Tsy ylor Farm, y
c this county. Oh the west side of the
MH'H' about one mile and halt from
Aolgaltown, as being one of the best
"tl's lcr Oil il this whole section OF
'oaLtry
u LIE falm ,s adjoining lands OF John
1s@ and others, aud contains about
.LeIy-tlree acres, which is mostly bot
~a iand, bordering the Monongalia-the
sa.% aUie oi 1t good boring hand. Burning
sis srs LAS 6sen found OF this farm i'll many
Sa. ...ss By making hole few icnhes
sp II the ground, gas has issued forth
S. %Ch vast volumes, that the appica-
;" u oi lighted match has caused flames
a~end two feet from the ground.
s.0, ' s fact, and can be proved if nee
ss.as aas iarm, We understand, has been
us,Si oy couple of gentlemen in Phil
.Spllia' who will, no doubt, make q
emng out of this valuable land
"s hANAwHA VALLET-In the pro-
- 80 W the search for oil, says the Kan
49,. IA kepabl'caa, now going on in this re-
~, 81 'ne evidence of its widespread ex-
a. a'eemsto be daily multiplying A.
thstr luce Of boring proceeds, it is said
lsserroe prospects of reaching extensive
ssns ,Justifying working, are encour-
neat almost almost everybody is expecting
iOop 'eiopments ih the oil line pretty