The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-30


they are in Titusvile or Oil City.
Any party intending to put down well on Pitholes
expects to get down hundred feet The cost Of get
ting an engine from Oil City TO Phole IL One hundred
and niy doars Talking Of engines no'ce a from bills
Now York is doing large bssiness in the sale Of them
Many ladies horseback daily VIA. pitnos Tor the
purpose Of seeing the wonderful well ana testing the
mineral water on Blackmer farm which, ey the way
might be carried up the Parkes House, wnicn stu
Ssa on q nil a. no s ver SSeS TIE Virtues
water obtain notoriety. rs.
Horse thieves plenty in Pthole Every night one
Of There several ugly looking soamps IN Town.
STREETS OF HTHoLA a.,
The principal streets Of PithOe are named as ioi
lows:-Duncan, Mason Prather Brown, Holmden, First
Second, Third, Fourth, John. -
Holmden and First arc tho main thoroughfares DUN
is the fashionable street promenade, being sixty
feet wido-the others fifty
fl now nrnoLE RECEIVED NAME
Pithole thus named consequence OF an extraor
binary pit or cavern that exists about three miles rom
the city In this PIT stones arc thrown but they arc
heard to drop Its depth has not as yet been ia
thomed. The whole country between here and Plumor
is believed to be cavernous.
who may be said the head OF the petroleum
v90ime, has recently married a Professor Babcock,
music or piano teacher, from the State Of New York
She smart intelligent lady, but objects TO paying
school tax when there schoohouse. She has four
children, young oil princes Of the new regime who seem
worldly condition than SO many young colts. There
never having been school house In their birth place,
never absent tnercIrOm,
education has been slightly neglected The fortune of
widow Homdenfor by such title she Ia better known
than by her one-may BIO estimated at half million
met Professor BabcOck this morning, mondDg hay
wagon He expressed the opinion that the new Corners
had great confidence in pithole They may do we'll"
be sad f the thing don't dwindc out" OF this there
are certainly no present indications
AN INCIDENT.
During the Presidential election OF 1880 in Little
Falls n Y, in company with Mr. A. Culver who kept
a hotel there and Herschel " Johnson whose planta-
taton in Georgia had recently loft and who then
han North nd lHact xrtth nnuo
whose ticket he was running Us Vice President To-
day met Mr.. Culver in oidom, looking hearty as
buck Where Herschel v. Johnson What con-
tras Here an ex-senator and Governor, whose where
abous are known, and here is an exlandlord,
who was his companion only few years n ago. down In
modern grease, pumping Oil from the Doweis OF the
earth upon double acting principle.
THE RUSH PITEOIE
f. great and the property has been so rapidly taken
UP the tide Of population and speculation has over
flowed and is travcrsing and setting upon streams
and territory in the same region and similar in character
Passing the Island and Homestead wells, which are
prosperous We reach the
which contains upwards Of one hundred and
six acres adjoining the Holmden farm. with
the opposite end crossing HolInden run. The
first and only well tubed is the New York Pithoe Creek
psroegm well no nsy ss Da
for one hundred wells, fifteen now drilling, twenty
eight with derrcks erected and engines on the ground
and sixty others preparing to commence and under con-
tract begin drilling within thirty and fortyfve days
TheJessees of lots the Mercy farm mainly old
OIL creek operators Of experience, ability and means
The three flowing wells of the United States Petroleum
Company within one hundred and twenty eight RODS
Of this farm on ore side the Island well well twenty rTd
side Lots are leasing at a cash bonus OF 81, 600 TO
$4,000 per and royalty Of one half the oil.
Now building this property and nearly completed
a first class hotel. centrally located known as the
"Morey Farm Hotel, ono hundred ard nifty feet IN
double piazza the entire length twelve feet in width,
shaded by beautiful grove OF two acres which Is to be
fitted up with walks rests, summer houses fountain,
throughout and supplied with water from pure spring
Mr.. Chas g. Murch, late Of New York city, will dis.
prepared to lodge four hundred aud dine thousand
guests.
apart for the transaction OF business among operators
and liberal trade has already commenced in the buying
and selling Of interests in wells in progress and Of
office will also be established in this house.
The Pennsylvania Tubing and Transportation Company
the present week commence laying six inch cast iron
pipes from and across this farm TO the Allegheny river
for conveying OIL This will lessen the cost OF delivery,
and consequently enhance the price of oil in this locality
one dollar half per barrel 1t is expected to be in
successful operation the LIST Of September This To-
caliy also to be Of the termini OF the double
track plank road building from Ttusyille to Phole,
but II may be continued further.
HOwAru FARN--yEAPEPANCR HOUSE, ETC.
way up the we rTacn e Hers
business is thriving number Of wells are going down,
the owners Of which are confident Of success Captain
oil interests on Oil creek Is putting down well on pr
vatc account at Howaths Mills Twenty wells are going
s heons on 70 'T W of New York %
leaving this property approach the Stewart Mill The
territory in this vicinity seems very much broken, but
as yet undeveoped Adjoining this is the Temperance
Hotel, kept by A. Lowell Here We stop TO quench our
burning thirst, but informed by tho gentemanly
proprietor that beverage stronger than spring water is
allowed on his premises This hotel is at the junction Of
Tonesta and Pithoe roads, opposite the John Sggns
and Howath forms.
Is situated on the main Pithole and branch of tho
same about two miles above the United States we'll. 1t
comprises hundred and fortysix acres. One tract
extends mile the east side of the main creek which
affords splendid field for testing. The branch Of the
creek runs through portion OF the other tract Tho
appearance of the territory in and all around this farm
Is identical with that which the United states well
struck. II constitutes the second 81 at dip in
the formation Of the land line northward from the
United States On the west side of the creek, opposite
the sigpins farm . number Of wells ore going down,
principally on tho Conneiiy ana howa'n inrns. Inc
pearances. Several leases have boon granted on the
sggns property and derricks are now going up THIS
property held at two TO three thousand dollars per
acre, end Is owned by very substantial men,
GOWN
The Gown farm next engages our attention. Here
we nd sundry wells in varous stages progress among
which is the Pomroy WELL which exhibits greater symp
toms of flowing well than any We noticed on the creek
Ut tho Same depth.
We pass on TO the Van Wick farm, upon which the
United states Petroleum Company are now operating.
They have already good indications Of oil, and
ldent that they will succeed in striking wells unslr
passed by anything on the creek Ncxtwe approach the
Anderson FARM,
the being all fat in very deep ravine or gorge,
similar in all its geological formations To the Holm
den farm on which the United States we'll Is located IL
belongs 10 the Union Oil Association, lately organized
under q new system by George b. Reed Co., oil land
agents Of Tltusvic Penn, who bear the reputation OF
being an honorable and responsible firm. Mis- house
purchased land in fee and formed the association
this basis Every sharehoders interest Is clearly de,
ned in twenethh that there can be issue Of
stock II this plan should be generally adopted It
m gh prevent the gigantic swndles imposed upon the
public by INSCRIPTIONS stock jobbers. Passing on We
discover number Of wolis going down. the operators Of
which feel very confident OF striking c The holders OF
land in this vicinity claim that they will yet rival the
largest wells yet struck on Phole We finally reach
Nellsburr, distance of some. two miles nom the An
dsrsor laIm This heIetQ[ogs rather obscure yisse Is
now thriving Under the @busS q active o operations
Several wells going down near this place. some Of
which show splendid Indications Of oil Land In this
vicinity Ia held at from 10 two thousand dollars per
acre. The day being pretty nearly spent, switch on
for Tinvle via Peasantvle This latter village Is
hvo miles from Nelburg and Is q very thriving place,