East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-11-22

matters, promising by saying the indi-
cations are unmistakable that i'm
mense stores of petroleum underlie
the whole region, and only require in
telligent development to prove a pro-
life source of wealth to the country
and to some of the operators.
THE SETH BEACH WELL.
Coming in from the west by the
Sarnia plank road, at a point where
this thoroughfare strikes the disas-
trous distribution of dirt, debris and
dilapidation which constitutes the bed
of the main street of the city, the first
object Of interest, a little off to the
right, is convenient, compact, neat
and creditable establishment, consisting
of an engine house and tower the lat
ter of course little higher than any
otherin Canada-the formersurmount-
ed by q smoke stack painted after the
STYLE of Winslow's line of lake tugs.
The location is Immediately adjoining
the best pumping vol in the district,
the premises, = acres in extent, are
cleared of every stump, bush, or SEM
blance of rubbish, and the interior ar
rangements of the buildings, where
is set up a model institution in the
way of engine and boring apparatus,
as coy, clean and convenient as the
surroundings would seem to indicate.
In the space of six weeks S, G. has
cleared the ground, put up buildings,
set up machinery, sunk two wells
one at each end of the house--to the
rock, and bored in the rock at one, OF
had done so ten days ago, $50 feet
Night and day does the machine run
only resting on the Sabbath, and the
show for oil in the well in progress is
all that could be desired. Speaking Of
TIE SABBATH IL CANADA,
We are reminded Of some circumstan
ces worthy of note, and that the ques.
ton as to what is "a work Of neeessi
ty" may yet cause considerable diff
Guilty in the Canada oil regions. Sun
day laws are very stringent, and many
of the church people are earnest il
their endeavors to have them enforced
to the letter; this interfcres materially
with wells troubled with a surfeit o
either water or gas, AMI suspension
of twenty-four hours in some instances
puts matters back for from two t.
four days, subjecting them also to tn
liability of an entire loss of the OF
supply, everywhere uncertain and er
ratio. A well of this class which thu
owner attempte to pump the Sunda.
we were at Oil Springs was forced t.
dry up by the "higher law" process;
idea of Seeing controversies won b.
holy force of pike and gum" witt
a squad of his belligerent followers
taking forcible possession, hurled sucl
pious anathemas at the heads Of TIL
engineer, greaser, fireman, and al
other odoriferous imps, that they wer
glad enough to dam up the apparatu
to save themselves from a similar re
alization. AT Petrolia gentleman
has been seriously reprimanded for no
stopping his flowing well on the Sab
bath. These matters, we have n
doubt, will be properly regulated, if il
no other way, by the Fenians, ma
jority of whom evidently have oil, o
something thinner, on the brain.
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Canada is evidently rapidly on tn
rise, and we do not wonder, for ther
is a palpability about the bushes
there that must put all doubt as to TIL
immense developments of the interest
in the aggregate, whoever may VIII
or lose by the arrangement, entirel,
out of the question.
TIE PENINsULAR HERALD, published
at Romeo, Mich, Rev. j. RUSSELL, cd