Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-04-17
~ Little Kanawha & Elk River
PETROL LEUM AND MINING CO.
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO BE CLOSED.
Cash Working Capital, $I5O,OOO,

OFFICERS: #r
S0LVER L. WOOD, President
JAMES CRUIKSHANK Vice President.
sCHARLESJ. MARTIN. Treasurer.
sJAMES WADSW ORTIZ, Secretary.
~. R. BLACKWELL, Consulting Engineer and
4 General Superintendent.
...r... TRUSTEES:
4 PAUL N. SP0FF0RD, of Spoford, Tileson 81
aCo, MY.
4 CHARLES j. MARTIN, President Home Insur-
lance Co., N. Y.
4 Hon. ROGER AVERILL. Danbury. Conn.
! Hon. ALBEIT z. CA1LIN, Burlington, Vt.
4 JAMES CRU IKSHANK, 30 Broadway, MY.
4 OLIVER +, WOOD, 90 Barclay street, n Y.
4 JAMES WADSW0RTH, of James Wadswortb|
IL Co., 6l Cedar street, N. Y. ' "' .A
JOHN w STRONG, Detroit, Mich.
EDWARD NJ. MORGAN. 2 Pine street, N. Y.
STNHE SUBSCRIPTION is so NEARLY
completed that ii is intended to close the same
lon or before the 18th Of February.
Subscriptions, $500 of which 5000, 900 purchas-
the land-to-wit: 62,ssO acres. The remanngI
1000 is the permanent cash working capital of the
company
Par value of shares, $780, Lands located on theI
Little Kanawha and Elk Rivers, in the counties of
Glmer and Braxton in the very heart of the oil re
lgions of West Virginia.
Professor Richardson reports: "Your property isl
the very centre of the West Virginia oil regions. II.
has numerous oil and gas springs along the banks of
fits streams, one Of which ves with the famous
1 Burning Spring itself"
Professor Shepherd. of New Haven, Conn, re L
lports "Iconsider ID enainenHy oil produciag land.
The o1-6earing shaIes WnderJie ID ertensigely, and
te long lines Of car6uretted hydrogen or Muminat-
ing gas springs some Of a0hicA sa1o burning, as
I'oeU as the appearance Of oil itself on the surfaced
|ot the tract, JulIy confirms me In this 6eIte'.
There can be no doubt that along your creeks and
Tributaries there is large ectent of 0aLuG6Ie OIL
producing territory. The Drodigiows amount Oh
diuneno~8 and canneI COAL iron ore limestone d'sdA
fire clays en'6Odied in tie high hills on our proper
w, the tops and slopes Of aohich cooered qoiA any
eetrdOrdiory gro,cth Of SoAie odb and otter heaUyl
tinbers, ald Immensely to its 0alue."
These views are fully indorsed by the reports of
the most practical and experienced m from the OIL
districts of both Pennsylvania and Virginia.
The COMPANY consider themselves fortunate in 4
having secured the services of Mr.. Blackwell, az
practical civil engineer, for the general superinend
ency. so well known as the late Chief Engineer and
Superintendent of the Commissioners of Wash Z
ington Heights, New York City.
Arrangement are in rapid progress for the imme. s
,liate development of the property, on scale com
,nensurate with its value AID extent.
Subscriptions payable at the time of subscribing
one half in cash, the balance in thirty days from
the time of closing the subscription, can be made in
person byleter at the Office of the undersigned,
No 81 Cedar street, New York; j. X. D0BS0N. No.
~ State treet, B,ston and joan W. STRONG, 4
Detroit, Michigan, where full inform alton can beE
obtained.
JAMES WADSW0RTd & CO.,
No. 6l Cedar street, New York.
N. B. Subscriptions received for the above Com
pany by - LEWIS BAKER,
feb6 -'5 Wheeling, W. v. {