The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-13
FR0M THE OIL COUNTRY.
T1tusViI!e--Its 6rOgth and Claims
sugar Creek Wells.

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TTTUsvnLE, July 10, 1865.
The residents of Titusville still claim, IS
they have done ever sincs the beginning
the oil excitement, that this Is the nstu-
raj outlet of the Oil Regions, and is des-
tined to be the metropolis of Petrolia. Il
was here that the first oil well was put
down by Drake in ls49, and for all of up
per Oil Creek and its upper tributaries it
has been The shipping point. The new
discoveries upon Pithole Creek have re-
vi7ed the hopes and declarations of those
who had watched with jealous eyes the
rapid growth of Oil City and Franklin, and
they assert, with grester emphasis than
ever before, the manifest destiny of this
burgh. Their claims are not wholly with
out reason, as more oil has been shipped
from this point, and more people have
made their Sntree and exit to and from the
oil country through this place than any of
its rivals. The Oil Creek Railroad, rum
ming from Corryto this place, was the first
railway leading TO the oil district and it
has continued from the very first to this
time, to carry an immense throng Of pss-
sengers semi daily. OF late the Franklin
branch from Mesdville hiss rather exceed
ed this road in the number of passengers
conveyed, but still they come to Titusville.
The following are the distances from tt
iusville to some of the more prominent
pOIuTs N Tuv vn rv5iOHz- n Ghsfar Farm
| 6 miles; Petroleum Centre and Ooquette
Mill, 9 miles Tarr Farm, II miles; Rouse
vile, IA miles; Oil City, 10 miles Frank
lin, rs miles; Plumsr, on Cherry Run, ID
miles; Tionests, 19 miles; CooperstoWD,
on Sugar Greek, 16 miles; Pithole City, II
miles.
As wss written you 8 few days ago, it is
in contemplation to open 3 plank road
from this place to the United States Com
psny's wells upon Pithole creek, a distance
of from ten TO twelve miles. If this is
done it will bring the bulk of the oil and
the travel from that new celebrated local
ity TO this point, inssmuch as the present
roads to Pilhole are far from good.
Titusville is growing rapidly. For a
long time it was nearly destitute of hotel
accommodations, only two or three sharp
ones having had foresight to see what flow
ing wells of wealth here were here in the
hotel line. But during the past year the
people seem to have walked up to this mat
ter in an exceedingly lively manner, ss
may oe inferred from the TACT that there
are new said to be t~wenty-nine hotels in
the village, and three building. The most
extensive one of all is now being built Of
brick upon the corner of the two principal
-srUUE.- II II UoruS DuTrS u ap-yvOs-s+0-
composed principally of eastern men
Among other institutions of the place is
fine trotting park recently fitted up and
upon which curing all Of the last week
from July 81 to the 8th, there was daily
sport and excitement for the devotees Of
horse flesh. There were some large pre-
milms offered and some excellent time wsE
made. A great crowd was in daily attend
From Sugar Creek We have encouraging
reports. The owners of the Shipper Vel
sre putting down q large number of we'll
in the vicinity of that one. One of these
upon a fiat farther up the creek and oppo
site the Day Fsrm,hs been yielding oil fol
q week and promises very well. There i
q heavy pressure of gas, which, during {
part of the time, causes the well to flow
The Superintendent has strong expects
tions of making 8 flowing well out of thu
one. Two others are just about ready FOL
tubing andhsve highly hstteEing prospects
III. g. MI Hon,-apu hoe hdar
pumping one well steadily for three months
getting nothing in all that time but sal
water until a few days ago. -Four month
ago Mr.. Shipper, the President of the com
pEny, told the directors that he proposed
pumping that well night and day until thu
Fourth of July, and then, if he got nothing
he would give the hands q holiday. Tit
directors thought him wild, but he and tn
Superintendent stuck to it, pumping GU
about 8 thousand barrels of brine daily, I'm
I'll the first day of July, when they struel
oil, and the well is nov yielding about fv'
barrels per day of lubricsting oil. This
and the example of the junction Well be
low, which was pumped six weeks before i
yielded any oil, show that it is folly 70 be
come discouraged and give the thing up be
cause oil is not at first struck. Five barrels o
heavy oil per day yields a heavy margin
on expenses, but it is expected that IN
yield will increase, now that the water ]
exhausted. A three-inch tubing WAS sub
stituted for the ordinary tWo-inch size,
short time ago, it being found imPossiblat
exhaust the water current with the smslle
size.
The Saunders well, a short distsnc
from the above, is yielding about two bar
4 rels a day. l &c not know the eonditiol
of the wells in the vicinity of COoperstowl
upon Sugar Greek. None Of them are ye
producing largely, but the owners an
workers sensibly persevere, confident of
good thing IN time to ome
Oil is reported to-day at S. per barre
on the Creek. At the wells upon Pithol
it is selling at So sud 81. CHlPs.