The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-30
NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JULY 80, 1866.

with Praher hnti ana s civil nnaDitant8 we concuueo
to tramp along
We had not proceeded far before we encountered
huge ratesnake or course he out OF his mis-
cry desired TO bring the remains along but my phi
iosopher guide objected. He was averse TO my
taking the sarpnts fifteen rattles, as he abomnated
snakes in any shape ] was sorry about the rattles.
They would beeu such nice toy for the children Of
some Of my petroleum friends who have just been getting
married
We now began to feel the Cravings OF hunger, and
seeing cleared space In field of the road we induced
our still unwearied seed to carry US thther Selecting
shady SPOT beneath the outrageous foliage of noble old
oak we spread horse blanket and prepared for
past First came tho sandwiches that William of the
Blood had so kindly prepared for US Then the crullers
don't spell crawers for we shall have plenty Of them
anon-which the gentle Josephine also Of the Blood,
had provided then the buttered biscuit and Boston
Crackers then "Amos the Seventh" and then the
Dimes Those who think they speak oontemptuousy OF
der hold II TO be high compliment TO thus sobriquet
person, for valuable, wholesome and nutritious
article of oHa Ssse Soa IN
GUIDE STRIKES Mk
My guide good Judge of oil territory and can tell
where oil exists correctly rs any witch-hazelor oil
smeller in the oleaginous regions Yon may imagine my
concern then, when heard him suddenly and joyfully
excaim, ''Eurekal I've struck OIL" sprang eagerly
towards him and cMed, tWhore2" "Here--in this sar-
dine box" handed him half lemon.
The sapacty of the horse is proverbia The vicious
are sometimes d0cile as lambs-when hungry II
would have made good picture when Pat poked his
and looking into the face of Jeems, my guide ask as
plainly as IF he spoke. "An't you going to give me
sorne?,, Jeems too kind hearted to say 'negh,"
and went into an adjoining field where was now
ing and asked him II he would not let him have little
hay for his horse The man replied that the hay was not
$50 that lust makes t and helping himself to an arm
full Pat was munching his luncheon as well as our
selves. Jeems that the old adage "When wine ID
in wit is out,n error for he never 80 much at
his wits end when his wine out That is the way
some things done in the oil regions.
We enjoyed hearty lunch, and were satisfied that
man could get good lunch anywhere on Pithoe II he
carried it with him. To resume our journey
ROCKERS FARM.
By the route came the first point In the new Oil
Dorado struck Rockers iarm opposite the Holm
den farm on which the United States well Is situated.
Here we met gentleman IA telegraph managerl from
Meadvle another from Boston (who said he was ook-
ing around still another from Chicago, who was doing
the same and yet another who was one Of the lords OF
tho soil Just into fortune Of some two hundred
thousand dollars, who was peeling potatoes
The Rocker farm consists Of hundred acres, and
has recently been sold for three hundred thousand dol
and half the oil reserved The purchasing parties
are getting for leases Ave hundred to two thousand
dollars per half acre Prathor City" this farm has
already been laid out in building lots, which command
fair premium The amount Of oil produced on the farm
ia small the terrdry not having been mt all developed
With the Rocker, the Holmdens, the Blackmer, the
Aorey Qae Copeland and the Hyner farms, adjoining
u
sand population will be there congregaed within aperod
of six months.
IN HTHoLY CITY,
We made a road for Pat and tho buck -board down
the bank at Rockers farm, forded Pithoe creek within
stones throw of the great United States well. and
struck into the brush, woods hewn lumber, building
material falling trees oil barrels and swarm OF specu-
a,ors and mechanics all buster than any bees that ever
touched petroleum BARREL and after carrying the buck
board some distance, presently pushed within the oily
portals of the new OIL Dorado
THE UNITED STATS WILL.
tctor In
place at the present moment will plunge at once into
the subject Of the great object OF attraction the United
States well. The well is now lowing seven hundred bar
res per day Since the "suckcr rOd' taken out IL
has lowed high eight hundred and sixty barrels per
day The lowest flow little over Eve hundred bar
res per day. The Twin wells, adjoining flow together
about five hundred barrels with the sucker rods in.
Those wells produce in the aggregate twelve hundred
barrels per day. There some twenty tanks into
which the oil is conveyed each tank holding about twelve
hundred barrels
The tanks are not all full some not more than half.
There arc about fifteen thousand barrels Of oil in tank
selling three dollars and half per barrel The untd
States we'll is natural wonder II seems as II II were
one OF the nosrs of tho earth through which the breath
iprs of the interior of creation carried There Ia
a sign Of 'no smoking or fire allowed here-a precau
ton that would TO be unnecessary the atmosphere
being so impregnated with gas that person would as
sdon think OF smoking segar In powder magazine
here One Of the wells has once been on hrc and the
surface OF the creek covered with oil by the bursting of
n tank. But no great damage has been done BY ire
as yet 70 this remarkable locality
The question Of the depth of bOrngs has always been
an interesting in oil localities. Tho following table
ritory starting the United States well base and
going up far Fair farm, Stewards which IL
said TO be very fat oil country
THE UNITED STATES PETROLEUM COMPANY Flow
ING WELL, rIrHorE; ALSO EOcSIER WELL, SAME
CREEK AND FAIR FARM COMPANY, STEWARDS
URited Satcs Well