Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-09-15
or NEWS.

The present amount of daily production
Of the fenaHgo Oil Region, we should esti-
mate at not less than 5000 barrels. In
May. 1862, the daily production was 5,717
barrels. At the present rate OF striking
good wells, another month or so viii find us
with daily production of probably not less
than 10, 900 barrels OIL City Register.
The PithoIe & Oil City railroad is prog
ressing finely. Between four and five hun
dred hands are engaged on it, and consid-
cradle distance is already finished and ready
for the iron. The road viii be finished from
the United States well to the mouth OF
Pithole, a distance of six miles, In ninety
days from its commencement
A new well was struck en- Tarr Farm this
week. 1t is about three rods east of Clark
d Summers Office. 1t is pumping from
seventy five to one hundred barrels and i'm
proving. 1t is called the Palmer well. The
well known as the Hickory well, adjoining
the Palmer well, which has produced no oil
for the last ten months, revived and is now
pumping seyenty-fVe barrels, and increas-
ing rapidly. - 1itasUiHc Herald
We learn that good vein Of oil was struck
IN Lyon, Shorb & Cos. well on Brush Run.
This will prove cheerful news to those who
have secured oil sites ON that stream and en-
courage others to commence boring imme-
diately. Clarion Bonner.
Hslger's Petroleum Recorder has the fol-
lowing information in regard to new oil
strikes:
On Wednesday last another one hundred
and fifty barrel well was struck on Benne-
hott run. This is the seventh flowing well
on the same run, all belonging to the Benne-
koH Run Petroleum Company of New York
The total product of all these wells exceeds
eleven hundred barrels per day.
The new well on the Egbert farm is now
yielding from sixty to seventy barrels per
day, and improving
The new well ON the Stowell farm, having
been retubed, is now flowing about one hun
dred barrels per day.
A well has been struck on Sugar creek, on
the middle branch, two miles above Coop
erstown, which yields twenty barrels per day
of the best lubrieating oil, and is constantly
increasing, this well is called the Colonel
Castle well, named after its principal owner;
Is down i've hundred and ninety feet, and be-
cause of the density of oil, and favorable To-
cafity for shipment of its product, entities it
to be classed among the best wells in the
Petroleum Valley.
A dispatch from the Shaffer farm states
eltSe1 q Wei UHHeQ Dy the helSSalder Nbl
Company of Troy, Situated on Hemlock
run, near Bull run, commenced pumping
with good show of oil, and with favorable
indications of its terminating in a flowing
well.
Last Tuesday the Engineer Well No. l,
on the ricketts, farm, Cherry Run, struck a
fine vein of oil and gas at a depth of five
hundred and fifty feet.
FROM THE KANAwHA OIL REGION.
On last Tuesday morning a strike was
made on Burning Spring Run by Ruff &
Harled, of Westmoreland county, Pa. This
is flowing well, and it is believed, will prove
equal to the celebrated LeHellen well When
it commenced to flow, the yield of one hour
was estimated at fifty barrels On Saturday
morning oil was also struck in well on
French Greek and Newell's Run Mining
Company, and yields twenty barrels per day
Mansfield 4 Co., of Steubenvill, have
struck vein of oil at their borings on Thir-
teen mile creek, Putnam county, West Vir-
ginia. This well continues to flow one hun
dred barrels per day. Harney & Co., have
also been successful In striking a fine vein,
on Eighteen mile crock, same country.
Measures are now ON foot to establish an
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