The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-08

" ape-is one Of the lnekiest youth, in the
world. He has fallen htir To a portion o tho |
most valuable oil LANDS in the region. III, income
s eight hundrtd thousand collars per year, or
more than two Thousand dollars per day and
e ntnUally increasing
c. v CuLvTR Originally from Ohio, re ilcnt
IN Funblin, NCnHDgU county, bur one of ths !
uain parties iu the Crawford County Bank. L. |
y orth nj ltun, thftl four year, oI. "a .ri.d-
rot without eli drcn. Just p,Du nominated hy |
he R,puhi aus for Congress, hpt has shid So
would rather eavC given hity thousand dollars
han ~ rel obliged TO accept TO uomiuglln
HIS services vill he valuablc 20 too country as u
dnauci,r. Although not celebrated us a ruIlic |
speaker, never faus 10 taxi cgpimOu sUugC qh /
calico upon. Not directly Interested IN uh syocn- |
latiOut. Is g injected with a mercantile COM |
puDy IN NV York
JoEA1UAh WArsOE.-Cfgn from the East |
Mace large an INT OF money, probably mil
mcrly IN the lumber and mercantile businos9
Ha, family. Disposed Of m 81 Of bis oil interest
and gone ~ l"chestrT, n. Y.
DR.. II. BHfwER.--Al.O from tue East, for
Dumbtr Of years partner wi Watson. Made his
m inun, and gone 10 Westduld, N. Y, retaining
part Of bis oTipiDaloil interest.
JOuE MuCHEIIL, formerly OF the firm Of Rouse,
Buhcll & Brown, Housewife. Mr.. Rouse was
burned 10 death by his clothes taking tire from
burning well. Mr.. Mltch-llis an old pioneer Iva
the oil busineos, having been engaged in il for
hye years. is wealthy, ut least million, and
one OF the owners Of the Buchanan farm, from
the lease q wells on which he derives a very large
inceme. Is quiet, uuassumug gentleman. and
a good business man. His fortune Is likely 10
lose nothing in his hands.
DR.. EGnERT, Cf ROusoville, had not, three
years aFs, funds enough TO liqudate 'hree hnu-
dred dollar debt. His income is nov estimated
M three thousand per day, OF q million per year
He has since refused 10 take greoubaCks, having
a room in his house already nearly filled with
buIules of them and requires 7'3Os, l0-40s, or
other Government securities for his oil lands aud
leases. He is n careful aud worthy man, and
when he comes into tho fashionable world his
advent will not he unlike that Of Monte Christie
from his diamond cave in the Mediterranean.
JAMES X. BERR, Of Franklin.-Largey in
etCsted In the oil region Was colonel of
Pennsy ylvana regiment in the Army of the Poto-
mac, and commanded a brigade. He is a rich
and go-ahead man. Has FIVE hundred acres Of
oil territory on the Allegheny, and a tract Of five
thousand acres IN Greene county, in the south
westerly part of the State, upon which oil has
been discovered in considerable quantities. Is
man of We tn and influence.
JuHN RIED, of NenangO COunty.-Orginally
| owner of the Rynd farm. Unaffected by his
| prosperity, being the possessor of hundreds OF
| thousands of dollars now where he was the pos
| SCISSOR of only as many cents few years ago.
| Has family of five young oil princes and prin-
| cesses equally as unassuming as their father.
| There are, of course, thousands of Others who
are entitlt 10 place IN the above list; but our
limits forbid their insertion ia eTtenSO. We will,
| therefore, refer to them as we find them in the
course of our expedition through the oil region.
Franklin - striking ir.o !. He" o" French
Leaving Meadville for Franklin, Venango
county, at a. M, you reach Franklin, only
twenty seven miles, little before noon, aud dine
at the United States Hotel, which is as good
houte as you will find in the place. The town
looks old, and furnishes bat few signs of recent
improvement. The derricks of oil wells strike
YOUR eye at every turn. IL was in this town that
the third oil was srruCk-the first by Colonel
DIake, near Titusville in the fall of 1852 on Oil
creek the second by Hamilton McClntock, three
miles above the mouth OF the creek and the third
in Franklin, by worthy blacksmith, named
| Evans, sill living. II was on the latter dis
coyeTy that the anecdote is based which repu.es
| daughter of the discoveTer to have rejected
| suiiOr because dad had struck ile." We visited
this we'll in company with a couple of Philadel-
| phians, and found it to have been originally
water well that the water had become undrink-
| able on account of the presence OF oil, and the
discovery OF the presence OF oil IN large quantities
| was the natural consequence. The oil from the
| Evans well commands higher price than from
any other, being, like most of the wells sunk in
| French creek va uable for lubrlc2Ling purposes,
J having more gravity.
Other els are sunk near the Evans well viz, ,
three by Van Haliugen, a dry goods merchant OF
Philadelphia, Simpson Jann y, ofPhilade phia,
with several Others, producing more or less luOr-
eating oil. An nerest in well on French
creek recently sold in New York TOR $1,000. We
had the pleasure of seeing the young lady whose
J independence was secnrod by dad striking lie,
ana can assure the reader that, from appearances,
the uDluchy suitOr not only lost fortune in oil,
but treasure in herself, in being rejected by tho
lady; for she seems TO be a sweet tempered and
obhgiBg blue-ayed village belle-an oil OF princess
| pdT eICeHeRce.
The barrel factory of Bissell & Co., situated on
French Cret k, turns out TWO hundred and fifty
barrels per osy fer the Bissell Oil aud Manutac-
turing Company, who have fifty wells sunk or in
process Of SINKING. Mr.. THEODORE II. Vetterlein
has an interest ia the company. The timber is
seasoned by new process, saving much time in
making barrel. lhe factory is run by never
failing water-power. Connected with II is patent
"tGg" factory, busily employed.
Important TO Land Buyers.
AS franklin is the county town of Venango
there is of course always considerable business
stirring, especially among oil spectators and
those having an interest IN searching after titles
TO lands, &c Many of the titles to these oil we'll
are quite complcaGed, and require person
| thoroughly cOnyersant with the business to un-
ray el them. The lawyers in this region with Dui
few exceptions, are TOO much interested in the
prevailing excitement to devote that attention to
the subject which il requires, so that New York
! and Philadelphia parties are frequently obliged
TO send counsel here 10 investigate the titles to
! lands and leases. We recently met a lawyer from
New York, OF considerable experience in such
| matters (MT. W. J. Usbone), on tour Of inves.
iigation Of title, and the one which he had then
in hand, covering large tract on a well .kROwn
ia m, he found TO be utterly worthless in its pre-.
sent conoilion. Bogus companies also, are
formed, and the unwary feeced TO an unmerciful
extent. We know Of one case where man came
up from Philadelphia with fifty thousand shares
of the stock of some fabulous Oil creek company
in his pocket and deYored several days, on foot
and horseback, in endeayoring TO ascertain
where IL was located but without success. 1t ID
reported the Auditor. General of Pennsylvania
has recently written to the Recorder in Franklin
inquirng into certain matters which may affect
the ltgalty of oil companies formed in New York
and other States, and operating here.
oil city, the Hub of the OH Region.
We have now, by stage, over q most shocking
road, reached Oil City, which is called the "hui
Of the oil region - but the title is In dispute We
, defy, however, any body 70 travel OH wheels any
where about this horribly muddy region withou
, | being up 10 the hub in something. Oil City il
| built on Oil creek, atits confluence with Aleghany
river, at the base OF mountain, with nothing e
+ | spare for tlat-uness it be the victim of sOmt
! | bogus oil company. IL has but one street. anC
| the grading of Il has just commenced, and al! thi
g | rocks, boards, boxes, and debris generally ar
| thrown iniO the middle Of it. The buildings OF
side Of the street all rest upon stills or spiles
s and occasionally one caves in, as the post ofiic
did the other evening On the other side q maj
beg ins 70 build with depth OF first floor OF twev
feet, the next twenty, the next thirty, according
| TO the "perpendicularity" Of the mountain.
| The population are all busy, like sensible
| | people, attending to their own business, ant
making mOney-but they go to church and clos
t their grogshOps on Sunday. The town is all
l wealth and mud--the creeks all scOws audscOwl
p ing boatmen. II is well "p0nd freshet" doe
not occur every day, like the one last May, wheI
,1g Of hoe Mia