, 1865-04-04
Total for tye years .465, as
Receipts for 1e64................ -....., ,476 939
From January 9Th, 1856, to March 4th, 1865. 492d


Total by rive1.................c... .9a7 ,al9
The average monthly receipts for eleven
months Of 1874, by river, Excluding January,
leC4, ! were about L, 900 barrels. i
II, Tor th= purpose Of a rough estimate, We
i've cents and feflned ut sesenty-five cents
for the whole p rlod since 1853, we have an
average forty gallons to the barely Of fifty
CENTS per gallon, or twenty dollars per bar
rel, making the total value Of the oil received
at the Allegheny wharf for the time named
90 e.. We .cSane c1nsdsr the yaus Of he
employed in connection with this vast trade,
1t il safe 10 say that Pittsburgh has done an
average oil business Of q 10000 per AunuIn.
This il q great trade IN one speciality. !.
Tic Groff Hassau farm lies at the mouth
of Oil Creek. lt.consists Of nearly 500 acres,
lew producing wells Of moderate yield. Many
a.e being put down. a part Of OIL City and
the shipping yards are on the Hassan Tract.
The tafm thai was lately sold Eas only the
balance of an Original tract, portions. Of which
have been sold at different times In town
lots, bringing enormous sums. For instance,
was recently sold for 515o,ooo. The JONES
house, plain, two story, wooden building,
neither commodious nor well built, has just
leen sold for $4,000. AL the buA1ing lots
and buildings command equally high figures.
| Tie whole Graff Hassan tAEm. consisting Of
,oD acres, was bought in 1854 for 81 900. A.
the farm yields not less than aoo barrels
daily
The McC1intock Farm, or more properly
| tne Watson, consists ol :25 acrts, has some
forty wells, two Of which arc flowing fifty
barrels each, md some OF which average
ninety barrels day: II TIE value o. tne sIa 1arm
tockvilie Company bought the farm, until
mon mon,hs, % was ssao:oo. The Company's share
amounted to $ao4, ,631G9. Watson s Co. ope-
rate the farm. having 1t under lease. The
least developed, and, as 1t is thought, the
least promising half Of the daI term H. VS. lately
| 1hv buchanan Farm is generally known az
the old Rouse turm. 1t is on Oh Greek, and
| at the mouth Of Cherry Run. The Buchanan
Company have onc-f1lth interest In this prop:
elty. They have sernc fine wells. The Shalt
will has produced Is o35 barrels. The Cl1tk
". 1kins, produced Sc, psf barrels The Ship
ley we'll, in the Rame time, IS .56G barrels
Brawley We'll nowed about year and theI
stopped entirely. Its yield WAS IS coo in ul1
I ht iarm consists OF four hundred acres hat
| twenty prosscing wells. with IN average daily
pr. duct OF two hundred mud fifty barreis.
The McClintock farms, adjoining eact
two hundred acres taken together, havt
sixty producing wells giving combanct
daily ploduct Of aboot lou1 hunoseo HIT
| lily batrela-
The Blood farfn, 1oar h1nosea acres, IA
nbout t"entS producing Hs1ls' 1ua Etses =.
ayetagT aaiy ptoane1 ' 81 6n1eG 81 fa+ onc @n
Ieis. Inc ban VEL ndunt un ~ Enr hnn J ;Te.
barrels daily, but We didn't learn that 1t Ta
yielding al present.
The Iafr tarm, TWO hundred acrcs, ha
about twenty five producing wells, with a
average daily product OF nearly seven nun
dred barrels. The Woodford well, the bi
flowed enormously for The first few montht
They were sunk in the fall Of 1861, when tn
price OF petroleum ran as low as twenty cent
barrel st the wells. The first vas twely
hundred barrel we'll, the second q three thout
and aud the last four hundred Each
these are now ylclolne aoout one-1enta Incl
is 4uing nothlnE.
The story farm, three hundred acres, IN
htee1 producing wells, sna qahy Pfoq,nt :
Of thlce nnhafeq ana elgnty oa1.e's' ~
1afm onS1nany o1asted Q, some os a,s "ea,s
snea as tne "a lazy Msas9ahns.oa, Nn,ea .oiIaet
y yhlded t've hundred ar barrels and ,n noT gre
but 1ot1y; ana tnt hancat* Wnacn LOWE
lSo hunosea} ous hoh ~ pts5s a~uy ~ ulegn X !.
The best WILLS arc !ne Gitmes' sesent5ns
barrels, and inc tTo l1tas Wells, one hunafe
, ard twenty oa'1e's.
ine Acllnenn} 1a1t1 ~ ae4ua1t 4aa1t 1us4ocs
able Eote. me ola Stochet wei opce pre
duced nine hundred patreas, no" notumf
! hr came can be said OF inc Empire wei
which once yielded seven1eea hnnafea ha
: rcls,. There are now seYeFal n1e wells ID o.
! | Grafton on this properly Inc iolal On pro-
! ,ct Of the fafm thus mr Is saao 10 te "or1
: 81, 5ooMo.
The Egbert farm consists OF aity acres, o.
ten producing wells, and an average siela;
one thousand barrels day. This u Gonslt
cred the prime faEm r 70, q oi1oo@. H. " Esoc ~
pnI CHASE d IT for g aO0 d somc 81 tnrcE years ag
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