The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-25
FROM THE OIL COUNTRY.
Tr4uspOrtadon from PithOIe-RtValry
for the Trade--PrOPOsed Routes anu
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FspeciaI Correspondence Cleveland LIADSE
On CITY, July 10, 1865.
lis questionable whether the officers Oh
the Atlantic & Great Western Railway Com
or the residents and operators upon
the road up Oil Creek and Cherry Run To-
ward Pithole, appreciate the full Importance
of the trade of this latter region and the Oh
fort necessary to secure it for this rou'o.
At present, Pithole is the grand centre"
oil excitement and speculation, ana the
travel ~thitherWard is enormous Inc Peo-
ple of Titusville are wide awake to the I'M
portance of securing this trade, knowing
full we'll that in & few months the ordinary
roads will be almost utterly imPsssaDie lor
loaded teams, and that the party who hrst
reaches Pithole from q railroad point, with
a good road, will take the bulk of the travel
and transportation. Hence they have taken
hold actively ofthat plank road project from
Titusvile TO Pithole, and that they do not
mean to let the grass grow under their ieet
is evident from the fact that mills are now
at work getting out the necessary lumber
and that the Executive Committee nave ad-
vertised for proposals Tor grading The track
and laying the plank, the proposals to be
opened upon the 29th inst. Meanwhile,
do not learn thst anything very stirring is
being done down this way. There is q
grading in process, designed to connect MA
the former place and Oil Creek with the
road at Oil City. But 1 see butfew lsborers
at work, and at present progress the road
should be hnished about the time the next
which Oil City, Franklin, and Meadville are
alike interested, and it behooVes the bust
ness mon of those places, and the officers of
the Atlantic, to stir in the matter, and not
let Titusville carry off the prize.
The two wells upon PithOle, just below
the United States well, are now called the
'eTwins :" very nice twins they are, too. 1
am a modest and retiring man, but would
accept a pair of twins Of that sort, if left
upon my doorstep by an ~"un1atural
mother" They are worth at least $4,000
per day, which is good enough for 8 poor
mar.
EOil is now selling at about So per barrel
at the Pithole we'll. Three dollars per bar
rel is paid for hauling it to Franklin and
50 per bar rel to the mouth of Pithole upon
the Allegheny. II, by plank or railroad,
the oil can reach the point of railway ship
ment for not more than 81 per barrel, it
would be 6 great gain for the shippers.
Hence it is, that the United States PetrO-
leum Company nave subscribed $4,000 to-
ward The plank aforesaid from Titusville.
An engineer who has been over the
ground informs me that the easiest routt
for the oil from Pithole region would be by
trainway or railroad from Plumer to the
mouth of Cherry Run land this part Of the
route can be very easily and rapidly con-
structed), and thence to the Allegheny
river by way of Cornplanter and shaffet
Run. The former empties into Oil Creel
at about opposite Housewife, which is q
the mouth of Cherry Run. An inclined
plane, such SIS is in common use at the Goa
mines in the eastern part Of the State
could be easily constructed up the bed o
this run to where its source is almost iden
tical with the source of shaffer Run, dow
which cars would run by their W mo
mentum TO the Allegheny at Reno. tn
enSlro u-~-Id he but little NOR
than three miles, and the mcTu0u1--
not more than a mile. The proposer 70
rather, the advocate, for l do not know
that he has proposed to carry it into effect
of this plan, has had much experience i
the eastern coal mines and asserts that thi
,Ion ;s 1bo r,,.t faoa;bIo Of apu for oattin
the oil TO market. At Reno it can be ship
ped either by rail or BOAT This plan wOul
avoid any hauling by wagons except froE
PIthoIe to Plumer, and would have thi
great advantage over a plank read to ii
t~usville, that il would be equally availabl
for oil produced upon Oil Greek, Cherr
Run, Cherry Tree Run, &c, while tn
other will be valuable only to Pithole in
terests. CHIPs.
POLICE CoURT.-Judge Abbey disposed
the following docket yesterday morning:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. RoUrke, Thoms
Mullen, Henry B. KILN, Ellen KesI
Thomas Finn, John Farley, Michael MAJ
tin, John Murray, Joseph Lent, BeDjami
Lower, Thomas Dowd, Thomas Lawler, Jn'
Leyne, Pat McCarty, fined 81 and costs
! James FARMLAND, fined 81 and costs.
Dislurbsnce-James Mason and Robe
MILFORD, fined S. and costs ; Charles Halle
and John Butt, fined So and costs; DENIM
Hickey, fined 81 and costs.
Petit Lsrceny-Charles Rogers, fined g
and costs, and sent to jail 30 days, ten day
on bread and water.
) Robbery-Henry s. Curtis and Michat
, Foley bound over to the Court of Commo
Pleas; bail $500.
Gambling-Henry Kester, case continue
) 10 the 26th-bail $500.
Assault and Battery-John Benjamin an
{ William Morris, bach fined S. and costs
Mike Miller and John McGuen, cases he'll
open till Wednesday; Frederick Eassma
and John Clifford, each fined $40 and cost
Permitting Nuisance-Hiram and HOraC
Brockway, case held under adVisemeI
until Wednesday.
MARINE DIsAsTER.-FrOm the Detroit TTl
5Nne, of the oath, We learn that the III