Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-12

| SALT IN TIoGA-AN OIL WELL AT ApALAcHIN
AND WHAT CAME OF IT.-The shibboeth of the Pc
troeum Prince, 'Tve struck oil" has lately fallen
into disuse and the thousand and one derricks
and engines throughout the country have fallen in
to the autumn of their existence Oil is in brief
''played out" In Tioga, its existence or other
wise, is a matter of the most decided indifference
We want Petroleum Princes, we will none of
them, have we not Apalachin, and Apalachin salt !?
Our patent of nobility rests on the Apalachin
creek, with a surface indication of salt
We noted last week the discovery near Apalachin
Corners, of a well flowing profusely of water
strongly impregnated with salt During the past
week attacbee of the ADVOCATE, has visited the
new Mecca and his observations in that region
will be found below.
Leaving Apalachin Corners and the Susquehanna,
III the rear we turned due SOUTH and up the valley
of the creek. The creek is an unimportant stream
of great worth. fringed on either bank with the
usual growth of button-woods and varying width
of marsh, the banks sloping back to the ridge on
either side, varying in hight from fifty feet
At about mile and half from the junction of
the creek and the Susquehanna and on the right
bank of the creek, on the farm of Joshua Townsend
the Binghamton Petroleum Company whoever
they may be, commenced sinking well in search
of petroleum the fourth of July last after near
ly three months of drilling and boring through a
geological formation undescribed except as alter
nate layers of grey hard rock and soft shell rock
and at depth of two hundred and ninety feet
the q" sand rock the indication of oil pros
pect was found At eight feet lower and on the
22d of September the drill came upon powerful
spring of heavily impregnated salt water which
burst through the drive pipe, and overran the
surroundings of the boring apparatus. The flow
has been variousy estimated at from one TO two
hundred barrels per day. The water is aecompan-
led by an immense flow of gas which burns bright
ly and powerfully along the flow of water. From
pint of the water as it escapes from the Gaping
of the well, we have before US nearly two ounces
of salt boiled down under the writer's eye. 1t is
claimed by the company owning the well, that
this strength is not the full strength of this Won
derful saline spring. They claim that at the depth
of twelve feet and again at the depth of two hun
dred and eighty odd, to have struck fresh water
and that the present escape from the well is large
ly composed of fresh water and that when the
well is tubed and the salt water in all its purity is
brought to the surface its yield of salt will be at
least one third greater, The great Importance and
value, of this spring may be easily calculated,
when it is known that the most powerful salt
springs known, are at Salina They are pumping
wells and the yield of salt is at the rate of seven
ounces of salt from two pounds of water A num-
Der OF gentlemen of this village have taken the
matter IN hand and it is proposed as we learn TO
make an effort toward joining the salt aristocracy
-Wdrerly Adrocate,