The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-11

tied TO three-fourths of the oil Bessrl
Duncan s. Prather, of coure, 10 the othe
fourth. lr
."No. 81 q few rods above, is a new
well, pumping about n hundred barrel
Der day. One.half the oil owned as in tn
Twin wells the remainder by DAME
Robinson, and others of WestmorelanC
county, Pennsylvania.
"No. So" also but q few days old, is OF
the other side of the creek, 1t is furnish
ing shout seventy five barrels per day. The
working interest here too, is scattered
among various private parties, some hold
ing even & athirty 4secondP
"No ~" underA bluff a few rods to the
east commenced to flow nearly a fortnight
since. It is producing about one hundred
barrels. The working interest"-one-half
the oil in every instances owned, one
half by the Columbia Oil Company I; FIVE
sixteenths by DR.. E. j. Deshler, of this
State; one sixteenth by the Ellsworth Oil
Company" and the Remaining one-eighth
By several parties to US unknown.
mo. l9h is the we'll Just struck, and
mentioned before as having beer burnt
out. It is, however, Rl right now, and is
flowing, with sucksr-rods still in, 1T least
two hundred aad fifty barrels per day.
This well, in its fJw, scis more like the
United States than any OF the others, and
the opinion is general that, with the sucker
rods out, it will be the peer of that as yet
peerless well. Here we leave the Holmden
Farm.
The Homstesd we'll, on the Heinen farm,
and less than ten rods from the l" Holmden
farm line, began 3 pumping well in
at fifty barrels PEI day. Through
the foolhardiness of q visitor who held 8
burning cigar at the mouth of the tube, the
derrick and other p~sraphanslis we're burn
ed, bat the four-and- a-half inch hole in the
could not be burned. "A new arig"
was built and the owners were amply re-
c~ompensed by an increase to a hundred
and fifty barrels. On the 9th of June, the
rods, till then remaining in the
were drawn and the result showed
an increase to five hundred barrels-the
amount now claimed.
This well, with fity acres accompanying,
is owned entire By the BoGolph Oil Well
Company, of Boston. Six new wells are
20 Be tested on on the farm soon, in which,
If course, the usual "good indications" are
wonderfully spparent-accepting the testi-
AOuJ VI buOso CUuC6fu6u.
The copeland well" moi ten rods from
he Homestead, is 8 "ten barrel well" and
blemish to the fair fame of Pit hole. On
learly every side is a flowing well. The
proprietor and owner of the
hree fourths of the oil obtained, is the Pit
lole Petroleum Company. Morey & Bur
is, of the Morey farm, take what is left.
The last well we visit is the "Island
Veil" not q mile above the United Ststes
Well. As its name implies, it is on q little
'lsnd formed in the creek. This began a
barrel well about June II, and
as grown TO be a flowing well of two HUI
red barrels and daily increasing. Its
whership, the land interest is disputed
etWeen the owners of the Mckinney and
'sIl farm.
The ist lecture of Pithole City was de. s
vered in an unfinished room of a new
otel, on Thursday evening, by "Hunki-
or" or the "faT contributor" being A.
L. Griswold, successor of A Ward on the
Plain Dealer. 1t was decided
humorous, with q slight mixture of
,nse. Mr.. Griswold is getting out q pan
Of the oil regions, which he will 4
ON exhibit in New York, aided by his
IN descriptions. :
The price of board ranges from three to
rur dollars per day, or from ten to fifteen !
per week, many being obliged 10
Ike q pine berth at that There are said
b over sixty saloons here. Gambling :
IS for 8 while openly prsctised on the :
rect corners, but s raid from the work {
gmeu disturbed these professional gen. A..
"
A postoffiee is now established here. A
and q Methodist church are F.
be built st once. The town boasts al
ady of an Aston House, q Metropolitan,
st. Nicholas, and the United States,
oVokingly suggestive, in name only, of :
her structures bearing those names.