Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-25
d Little Kanawha & Elk River
PETROLEUMAN AND MINING co.
SUBSCRIPTIONS TO BE CLOSED.
Cash Working Capital, sI5O,OOO.

Cash Working Capital, $I5O.OOO
l. sfl OFFICERS
OLIVER T.. WOOD, President.
JAMES UiUlkSllANK Vice President.
CHARLES ]. MARTIN. Treasurer.
JAMES WADSWORT Secretary.
Z. X. BLACKWELL, Consulting Engineer and
General Superintendent.
TRUSTEES:
.. PAUL N. SPoFF0RD, of Spoford Tileson 4
Co., NJ Y. B..
CHARLESJ. MARTIN, President Home Insur-
ance Co., NY. r...I ........ .
Hon. ROGER AVERILL. Dsnbury. Conn.
Hon. ALBERT z. CATIIN, Burlington, Vt.
JAMES CRUIKSHANK, IS Broadway, N. Y.
OLIVER E. WOOD, 20 Barclay street. N. Y. t-
JAMES WADSW0RTH. of James Wadsworth
& Co.. 81 Cedar street, Y.
JOHN w. STRONG, Detroit Mich. -..-..
EDWARD NJ. MORGAN. 2 Pine street. N. Y.
TUE SUBSCRIPTION is so NEARLY
Il completed that tits intended to close the same
on or before the 18th Of February. 1la
Subscriptions, $75O.OO Of which $500 900 purchas-
es the land-to-wit: 1880 acres The remaining
$l500o0 Is the permanent cash working capital of the
Company. e,ss .t..r-t oZ
q Par value of shares, 500. Lands located on the
Little Kanawhs and Elk Rivers. in the counties of
Gilmer and Braxton in the very heart of the oil
gions of West Virginia. y'a lt
Professor Richardson reports: "Your property is
the very centre Of the West Virginia oil regions It
has numerous oil and gas springs along the banks of
its streams, one of which vies with the famous
Burning Spring itself" ~ "a
Professor Shepherd, of New Haven, Conn. re-
ports: "Jconstder ii entinen1y OIL producin1 land
The on-6earing shateS underlie IL ertenStUeJy and
the long lines of car6uretted hydrogen, or Rzumindt
ing gas springs some Of s0hich sGso burning, as
toeU as the appearances of oil Itself on tho surface
Of taetract, fully confirms me In this 6s1tef.
There can be no doubt that along your creeks and
tributaries there Is large eetent Of udluG6le OIL
producing territory. The prodigious amount of
6ituminous and camel COAL iron ore. limestone and
fro clays embodied in tehigA hills on lour proper
IT, the tops and slopes of aohicA covered qoih
ectraordi1ory groaoA of aoAite OAK and other Aeavy
hnN1ers, add immensely to its Ua1Se." ae..
These views are fully Endorsed by the reports of
the most practical and experienced men from the oil
districts of both Pennsylvania and Virginia. soI.
The Company consider themselves fortunate in
having secured the services of Mr.. Blackwell, a
practical civil engineer for the superintend
ency. so well known the late Chief Engineer and
Superintendent ofthe Commissioners of Wash
ington Heights, New York City. yl
Arrangements are in rapid progress for the imme-
diate development of the property, ON scale com
mensurate with its value ard extent. So
Subscriptions payable at the time of subscribing.
in cash. the balance in thirty days from
the time Of closing the subscription be made in
person BY letter at the Office of the undersigned
No 81 Cedar street. New York; J. X. DOBSON. No.
A State street. Boston; and JOHN W.STRONG,
Detroit, Michigan, where full inform alton can be
obtained.
JAMES WADSW0RTa d CO.,
,-4r-,-e se No. 81 Cedar street. New York.
N. B. subscriptions received for the above Com
panyb LEWIS BAKER,
feb6 Wheeling. V.