, 1865-09-09
OIL INTELLIGENCE.
| Scenes on P1tholc-T7tc New Sixtecr-
| Hundred Barrel Wcll-A City of two
Months Growth

Scenes on Pfthole-T1tc New Si1tecr-
Hundred Barrel Tcll--A City Of two
Months Growth.
Correspondence Of tho Chicago Tribunal
P11uoLE, Fn.. Sept 4, 1859.
Your correspondent Is not ubiquitous. The
news Of having struck q new wcll on No. 81,
OF the Holmden firm, at Pishole, reached him
on Saturday, ut point between Meadr1ile
md Cory, loo lale for visit that day TO the
crcat centre of Oildom. But to-day took
him to CORY, and down the tortuous, reeling
and plunging Oil Creek Railroad to Miller
station, from which, thanEs to good pair OF
locomotive combinations, he footed 1t over
six miles Of the most horrid, hllly, rocky pnd
muddy. roads ever seen by mortal outside the
land Of the oleaeiuous, and thanks, also, TO
good friend who hasteGahown him around"
bis eyes have behe1d the greatest wonder Of
the wonderful and oily nineteenth century.
! first visited the great United States well
which gushes out It's oily treasure at the rate
Of eco barrels daily. It isa grind sight TO see,
Its twenty great tanks, holding 1900 barrels
eacl,, gathered nround the welllike the sticks
of grain around the 1arm housos In the prairie
State. Tho peculiarly Of the wells on Pit
hole Greek is, that they produce pure oil with
no admixture Of water; and to see oil issuing
fiom the mouth Of two Inch tube, as II be-
ing blown by y Jet Of steam from boiler, has
tendency to turn ones head into tho whirl-
Ing channel Of speculation. The smallncss Of
my pile has possibly saved me from Loss OF n
fortune. But TO resume. -
Well No. 81 was next visited. It was surg
ing and snoring as If tubilant over being the
"biggist thingh on Pithole. It yields the
enormous quantity Of stztetn hundred barrels
! dapy, anu seems 10 he Increasing. The gns
rises like dense cloud from The face Of the
| great tank into which the oil Is discharged,
| and fills the mir around about like dense Tor.
The well next In size To No. 81, Is tho Grant
| well (tte one which WAS lately on fire for q
| few hours.) It's daily tribute Is no less than
| twelve hundred barrels. There uro several
other good wells on the Holmdcn farm yield
| ing from ono hundred to FIVE hundred barrels
| daily, but such small fry have ceased to ex-
q On lie Rocker fnrm, which lies below. the
HoImdcn, Is but one producing well which is
reckoned at i've hundred barrels. Several
others orc Just down and ready to test, aud
| you may look for more astounding develop
/ ments almost any day..
Ny visit TO the different localities OF inter.
| est has necessarily been hurried, and nm not
| aule to describe them wi b that mlnuteness or
accuracy which could he wished. A future
| letter must make amends in this particular
There will be news to writc IN q few daJs TINT
will astonisll the world. It Is not fair to sup
pose That ali Of the five hundred wells going
down In Ibis region will fail to get oil moi
that they win all fall short Of those already In
Now 4 lew words about Fttholc City.
There WIS time IN the memory Of your cor
respondent when towus and cities sprung up
en- The prahies almost rs II by lnngic. Pit:
hole CITY sce1ns o miracle In itself Two
months sgo it:was almost wiiderness-to:
day have counted up some twenty hotels,
nny quantity Of saloons, two banks, print
ing cl1Icc, some fifty stores and shops then,
too, In the midst Of the worship Of mamnon,
the Great Father Is not entirely forgotten.
Two churches are IN process Of erecttan, nnd
wilt soon be completed; InA1road Is hcinG
built down to Il Allegheny River, Gistanc,
OF i've miles. These Improvements are ter
Eibly.. needed; tho wagon roads would be
deemed imrassable in any other country but
Ills, and Jet oil the oil Of Pitho1e goes
consumed here comes over them. To see tho
teams laboTfng over the highways reminds
one of m army of ants marching with their
cEgs over a-.stonc htnp. 4 man on foot can
outstrip the tastest stage line, and bold hle
own W3t1ia horse and rider. Nothing hut
prospective fortunes could ever induce any
| body to live In such place and such conn
try as this; and yet your city gent or counting
house sprout climbs tho hills, strnddles
through The mud and rubs against the hugt
oily tanks with as little apparent heed as the
1nertst .wood-choppcr or tcamster. Really
Will not always be SO. By-aud-by NE shall
hare onr ollsaristocncy, tho ft counterpart
| OF the Goldfish article.
! The cycuing is wearing AWAY, and The boy!
Il On tue benches outside the hotel u where
!; am, writing have ceased singing "Tfamp
2 and ~ II ffta not nrh1Y