, 1865-09-06

mere guess (for to give thu exact number Ia
out Of the question: and all within, Say one
ard half miles, and with innumcrable others
above and below this city. About twelve Of
them arc producing In all about 800 barrels
rce day, but many more urc icing testedl and
new wells added dnily, and to-day att the
United States we'll l saw string Of teams
waiting their turn to load as long as we fre:
quentiy see Mt Clnrk street bridge when 1t Is
oper for half an hour ::
Interests in these wells are changing Annds
hourly at high feures-$2, 600 70 e., SO being
given for 1..E In those faynsnbly located, and
q lease Of less than half an acre his actnally
been sold for cash bonus of. slB,5 ,5oo md half
1f the oil. :.'.; 49,. y
Tic excitement Is gradually extending up
Tit Hole creek and from the number Of wells
IN progress theF hare strong faith that good
wells Will be found up the stream rs well rs at
this point. Prices arc still reasonable up thcEn
and excellent territory to BE- Ind still At
Dawson Centre, about mile and half above
producing, and up at tic Howarth Falm above
The Centre, most desirable leases cnn be- had
still ut cheap rates, and those seeking invest
ments can not find q more desirable point than
this on the whole stream.
The excitement is all centred on Pit Hole
and OIL Greek, and Cherry Run Is quite left In
the shade.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT ESTE1I1GESCE-TnE
UNITED STATES WELL STOPS FLOWING
NEW STRIKES IN THE PENNSYLVANIA
Oh REGIONS.
= The following is the highly important des'
patch to the Pittsburgh Commercial of Mon
day: -:
OIL C1rr, Sept. 2.-The United States well,
on noimden Farm, Ptt Hole creek, ceased to
flow On Friday. --s s;.-- =.
NEW STRIKES.
No. s., on The Holmden Farm, bias In
creased since the 26th Of August, until 1t now
Gows eleven hundred barrels daily.
"A big strike is reported on a7er1y Farm,
10. Il, Mckinney Farm, is flowing and
pumping one hundred and fifty barrels PEI
day:
was struck on Tart Farm on Thursday morn
Ing last. Il is pumping from seyentJ -Gve to
one hundred barrels, and improving, and l.
called the Palmer well.
The we'll known as the Hickory we'll, ad-
joining the Palmer well, which has produced
no oil for the Inst ten months, revived last
week, and Is now pumping seTenty-hFe bsr-
4s.e, G,1niormation n Isaeiicd The city on satur.
daT that good strike was mnde in well No
4 of the Glasgow Oil Company, on Little Bea.
yer, Thurtday night. 1t Is sald to be the best
strike made on thaL stream.
- Last Tuesday the Engineer Well No l, on
| the Rickcts farm, Cherry Hun, struck n tint
rein Of oil and gas at depth Of five hundred
| and fifty feet.
We learn that e. good vein Of oil was
struck In Lyon, shorb & Cots. well on Druat
| Run. This Will prove cheerful news to thost
| who hive secured oil sites on that, stream
and encourage Others to commence boring i'm
mediately-
-.-O On Wednesday last another one hundred
and tfly barrel well was struck on Bcnnehof
same run, all belonging 70 the BcnnehoH RnI
| Petroleum Company Of New York. The tota
product of all these wells exceeds eleven hun
dred barrels per day.
"A well has been struck on Sugar Creek
on the middle branch, two mics abov'
Cooperstown, which yields twenty barrels Pc
day Of the best lnbricating oil. -
yielding from sixty to seventy barrels per day
! and improving. -
The new wen on the s,owen farm,,' hay
ing been -retubed, Is now doing about on
| hundred barrels per day. .:
"A despatch from the Sha1Tcr fasma state
I that well owned By the. Rensselaer, Oil Com
pany Of Troy, sttuated on Nemloek run. nea
Bull run, commenced pumping Will goo
oIps olits te1min,atiDe el MI, @ in flowing well.
"A new well reported at two hundred bal
rels Der day, has: been struck upon Cherr
Run, adjacent tothc Sucker we'll. =
Tho new spronM well on Hyde and Ee
4 hert firm. is now producing over 100 barrel
per day. The Coqnette we'll, which was taI
ned by, the abore. named, ,was not pnoducln
I at our lntest dates, and 1t Is rqmored that til
tubing is 10 be removed from 1t. :
I W oHN-1rW WETIa q 'REP0RTED TN THE Ran