The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-14

and Phladelphians, after boring down four h ...,.s
feet struck oil Of fine lubricating ann1i,
got S on sSos Inc top Of the % Ts
in such quantities that u will burn conti' .v TSs
company have commenced another well on shs so,nnS
farm Il is down about two hundred and 49,
fine show Of oil Another is being Dor a sye m;iss hs
low. This company have secured 50 ss two tho"s"d
GUS coal Several other companies sens o. osomin
operations, mostly upon Eastern capital One Old salt
WELL having been plugged up for shout fifteen years be-
longing to Mr. Hoffman, locate IN the village was sold
to a company short time sim a They compen nor
ing il out and when down Aout two hundred and afty
Tee, struck on IN large antilles. They immediately
leasing all the territory cycan The oil is said TO be Of
me a 40, qua which generally the case
VIII al .Ie salu ESP about new oil wells Another
company has secure Twelve hundred the trbu
sIes oi tne west. OF the Monongahea, and are now
aSng arrangem send out engines and machinery
anu Jonmence operations Immediately. Private ind
s,a .hs near concerned in these movements
=" WAC N'''o'' on than corporate bodies
~ .h EXTRAORDINARY MINERAL DEPOSIT
WI sn0 route to Clarksburg you may, II You wish to
s,on al one Of the scientific wonders Of this REGION
a. sne vertical btumen lode Biologists call II solid
crys Allied petroleum mineral oil. This lode Is
south fork Of Hughes river about eight miles from Cairo
xtaton about twenty miles southeast from Parkers
burg The mineral has been traced half mile in
line running south seventy six degrees east The lode
is nearly five feet wdc and lies between horizontal
yellow sandstone rocks is without the least OF
mpurity and s divided into distinct parts by an rregu
and the other graduated The mountains on the two
slope about t.. four hundred feet w high ana the
insure In which the mineral is deposited extends
right through Them and to within from Eve to eight feet
OF the top surface OF course there theo
RES broached TO account for the production of remark
able mineral deposit, but the reasonable ap-
pears 10 be that ia the result Of the gradual oxidation
OF liquid petroleum that has been forced up and injected
into this assure BY some violent CONFUSION of nature
GEOLOGICAL FORMATION OF THE COUNTRY.
In regard to the geological formation of the West vr
gna oil territory the following the conclusions Of
Fyst-Tha the presence Of those strata which imme
datey underlie the coal measures far down the
Devonian shaes indicate territory favorable to the pres
ence Of petroleum.
lSecond-That broken surface consisting Of sharp
hills and ravines Astounding in fractures and moderate
upheava Of strata favorable indications Of petroleum
collected in reservoirs.
Thrd-That the inammable gas which issues from such
situations Of strata is the vapor Of petroleum IA carbon
lied hydrogen Of the nature Of benzlne and indicates
s accumulated presence in reservoirs not far distant
The miners significantly call IL the breath OF OIL but it
has lost its strong ordor by Installations through the earth
and waters.
F5wta-That oil springs or surface OIL is petroleum
ITSELF present in the external strata But experience
has shown that cOpous flowing wells less proba-
BILE in the immediate neighborhood Of flowing springs
than at considerable distance away, if the fountains
by long flowing, already exhaustion.
FUM-That the oil, whatever be It's origin, actually
aboupds IN the lower strata Of the carbonerous rocks
and the upper strata Of the Devonian. Appa-
reny, Oil creek the wells descending three hundred
to five hundred feet reach the latter rock while Writ
county the wells descending hundred feet to two
hundred and fifty feet scarcely penetrate to the lower
depth Of the former.
Siuh-That what is called 'borable terrtory'' is no
longer to be confined to the bottoms or margins Of
streams, but may include also the hillsides
BALTIMORE, August Z, 1896.
HOME AGAIN.
To-day reached the Monumental City, after tour of
four weeks through the oil regions Of Western Pennsyl
vania and West Virginia And l must here state that
the best Of approach from the eastward to the
latter by way OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
which has, after all the vlcissudes of the war; become
again s0dly established OF the main arteries
communication between the great East and the great
West
believe il TO be only necessary for person to make
the tour have to be satisfied that whatever may be the
operations OF stockholders the petroleum exchanges
in New York and elsewhere whatever may have been
all the country the petroleum interest is still of
great magnitude and importance. To gay that il is
payed OUT Is ridcuousiy erroneous II there has been
falling or In the product on Oil creek, the
yield there Is still source OF immense
wealth. What may have been lost that hitherto
ments Pthoe creek and the adjacent territory What
has been lost during the rebellion West Virginia Is
being rapidly recovered through the ind0mabe
ges and the ample fortunes of Eastern and Western
capitalists The interest has suffered by food, 0re,
tornado, and, than all, by baA legislation in
advice given in these columns last year to beware OF
bogus companies have suffered. Those who have made
judici0us Investments, general thing. have had
70 complain than II they had risked their
money in ventures in California or China, in bread
sus provisions the regular stocks Of the stock
boards Speculation in all things and at all times is
hazardous little oil is dangerous thing; sink deep
do not sink at all