The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-22
FROM TIE OIL COUNTRY.
New Well upon Stuarts Run-Fecen-
trIeities of PithOIe-POIiee In mead
VIIe-A. a. g.. w. Railway Matters

Special Correspondence OleVeIsnd Label
MEADvILLE, PA, August l9, 1866.
The latest report of oil strikes is of
new well which promises largely upon
Stusrts Run, upon the property of the
Jocelyn Oil Association. This Run Iuus
parallel with Pithole and about midway
between that now celebrated stresm and
the Allegheny, which, shortly above the
mouth of Stuarts Run, takes q sudden bend
toward the north, so that the river is also
nearly parallel with Pi.hole and the Run.
The Association spoken of was formed Last
winter upon the same plan IS the Boston
Oil Well Company, which own the cele-
brsted Homestead we'll upon Pithole.
Since the great strikes upon Pithole, Stu
arts Run property, distant only two miles,
has been looking up very materially, and
this new well will give is additional impe-
tus. The reported well is about upon q
line with the Pithole well, the Egbert farm
upon which is the Croquette we'll, and the
large wells upon B~ennehoof hun. The
we'll upon West Hickory creek are also
upon about the same latitude. These facts
would seem to indicate the existence of q
large msin running nearly east and west,
inside the boundaries of which one is al
most certain Of striking oil.
The excentricities of society in the new
ly formed towns and cities of the Oil Re-
gion received g new illustration lstely ct
Pithole City, where a circus and theatrical
company OF the Varieties sort gave an ex'
hiDition for the benefit of q church which
is being erected. That is not stealing
the livery ofheaven TO serve the Devil in
but Ton the contrary, quite the reverse"
Paint, plastic and signs are combining
to give more of 8 civilized air TO Pithole
City, !sld to render it quite p~resentsble.
Still the rush continues to this Mecca Of
Petrolis.
In this borough of Meadvilie the theme
of most interest is the fact that at last we
are to have q regularly appointed and or
/ gsniZed police force, with iull authority TO
preserve the peace by other means than
, " EuA1AOAF II < "a 70 ~ W
kept in readiness to receive the drunken or
disorderly rowdies Who may prove unUil-
, Ing to give up their hitherto undisturbed
possession of the streets after nightfzll, and
) once more we may look for peace and Sc
, curity for life and property. For this con-
summation SO devOutly to be wished the
, community is immediately indebted n
, Charles Powers, Ksq, ono of the council
and a public spirited citizen He has
? taken the matter of obtsining subscriptions
! for this purpose into his hands and has
generally met with prompt response from
. the business men of the place. The su-
p tho1ities nave been in communication with
the chief of the Police in Cleveland in re-
= gard to proper officers, and two Of the besI
men to be found have been engaged to GIN.
on directly and go to work.
While upon this subject IL is but just e
: say that some of the sneers and reflection
cast upon the present coDstsbulsry forcc
of the place are unjust. True, this foIe'
+ has failed TO keep the town quiet and or
f Derby, but then it has been insufficient fol
the work and, having been put into posi-
l. ton before the town possessed anything
/, like its present dimensions, it has been nee
!. esssrily inadequate. Constable Kelsey
has spent most of his time at the depot a
q tie point where there WAS the creates
I number of persons, and where, from tina
4 fact, there would be the most danger oflsw
n l~essness. It cannot be denied thst at tbi
/ point there lave been but few occasions O
disturbance. 1t has been upon the bushes
/, ana upper streets of the place that the row
q dies nave he d full swing. Let us rejoicl
and be exceeding glad at the prOspec. of
reform.
n meeting of the Board of Dire tors O
tho three orgsniz atoms under which tb
Atlantic and Great Western Railway i
operated the "a. & G.. W. Railway Com
pany in New York." the "a. 81 G w
Railway Company OF Penney lvsnia," An,
a i tho "A " c W. railway Ccmpauy q
O6io") was held in New York on Wed
q pesday and Thursday of this week to tax
seton toward a consolidation into one cor
porste body, with one Board of Directors
at present there are in the three board
a thirty-nine Directors. 1t is evident tina,
4 such q lerge body of control labor undel
o serious disadvantages which 8 more com
pact body would avoid. The officers and
t Directors will sgree upon 8 form Of consol
idstion TO be submitted to the meeting o.
the stockholders in q few weeks after tb,
arrival in America of Mr.. McBenry and
q others of the foreign stock holders. The
: stock holders will vote upon the consolida.
t tion and upon the time Of carrying it into
a effect. CHIPS.