The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-17
FROM THE OIL REGION.
The Rush to PifhOIe--COntfnued tx.
citement--COndItlOH OF OIL Creek
WeIis--EcOnOmicaI Ingenuity-Aink.
ing Of n shaft,

On CREEK, July Is, 1865.
The rush to Pithole continues as great as
ever. Pedestrians and equestrians throng
the highways, and numbers there ara who,
all unusedto Witching the world with noble
horssmanship decline thatmode Of lecomo-
motion, sndtrust themselves rather to the
springless lumber wagons, except stages,
which play between Oil City or Shsfer
and the present centre of attraction. But
woe unto these for they shall be victimizsd.
They think to escape jolting and shaking
and the dangers of q fan from the
summit of 3 gothic steed,@ but more skill
is required 10 keep ones seat in one ofthese
wagons than upon a fractions horse, and q
hide that would come unscsthe1 from the
conclusions of q cavalry saddle will bear
lasting reminders of the seat of one of
these stages after 8 ride of a dozen miles
over the stone-bestrewed and fulfilled
roads. But what will not men endeavor
Tor the sake of gain, or of seeing the spot
where other more fortunate ones have made
their pile And 80 it is that on enc day
of this week there we're over nine hundred
horsemsn who arrived at or passed through
Pithole City and over one thousand the
next day. o..
The United States Well and the others
in the neighborhoOd, all of them before
described in this correspondence, are doing
AZ veil As ever, and 30 far IS they are con-
cered the visitor of o-dsy sees the same
sights that he did three weeks sgo. But
he sees new derricks and new buildings,
all ~resounding with the course of labor and
preparation for further astonishing yields.
A well upon leass No. II of the Holm
dan farm is being tubed and tested to-day
The proprietOrs have great expectations of
Il, Is it has given very fsttering indications
Of there being an abundance of oil and
gas. Leases are in great demand and very
large prices are paid for locations near these
four wells.
PithOle is growing with all the rspidity
which energy and money can give it.
Where q few days ago wss only a bare
hillside, are now streets, hotels, markets,
saloons, machine shops, and livery stables.
Village lotseommand from $500 to $4,000
for three year leases, the property and
buildings then TO revert TO the leaser.
Upon Oh Creek there is comparatively
little doing, although the yield Of oil is in
creasiug. As 1 have written you, the wells
upon the Tarr farm are again producing,
after 8 quietude of nearly six month. Up
pom the Egbert farm the Coquette we'll is
still hnHi4S~sSeady strvum Of pure Oil 5uvH
as would rejoice and make exceeding glad
the heart of the holder of stray sixteenth
or thirty-second interest. The visitors to
this farm are much interested in q simple
but wonderfully effective continuance which
has been spplied to q very Hgassy"
we'll not far distant from the
COquette. The well yields but little oil
two or three barrels per dsy-but has q
great rush of gas. A barrel is placed over
the tubing, into which the gas and oil pass.
The latter is drawn off from the bottom
into a tank, while from the upper part of
the barrel two pipes lead to the engine
houses of two wells WHICH Ere DeIug urIiIeuE
One of these pipes or conductors is about
sixty feet In length, and the other three
hundred and fifty. The end of the pipe is
carried directly into the fire-box of the
boiler, ard the pressure of gas is 30 great
that it supplies all the heat needed for these
two engines, and there is enough superau.7
Gus gas to run another engine yet. Ascend
barrel over the outlet of the conductor,
with q simply contriVed escape valve in Il q
top, prevents all chance of the fire commu-
hitting through the pipe to the well. The
whole apparatus is sosimple and effective as
to be exceedingly interesIin especially as
ssVfng OF at 1east $40 Per day Is MAIDS in
fuel at these two engines. This simple con-
tTivsnce struck an English gentleman of
party, a practical engineer and msthe-
msticisn, with wonder and admiration at
the readiness with which the purpose was
effected. "Why," said he, lone of our
English engineers or mechanics might have
accomplished the same result, but he would
have had a complicated System of valves
and receivers and retorts and gauges and
the Lord knows what while sl you've got
is a pipe and q barrel with q valve" s
Upon the Dalzel farm, adjoining the
Egbert. has been commenced the sinking
of 8 shaft, seventeen feet by ten, for oil
purposes and in order to investigate the
strata of rock, earth, &c, through which
the wells are sunk The shaft is in the
hands Of 8 company who have let the
contra cts for putting it down to the
depth of one hundred feet by hand.
AT that depth the company intend 10
put extensive machinery at work to com
plete the job. Although the project of
sinking s shaft has been frequently discuss
ed, it has been generally considered i'm
practicable, from the difficulty of exhaust
ing the water and also Of supplying fresh
air for the support of the workmen. The
managers of the company are confident of
overcoming these difficulties. They will
employ three engines of one hundred horse
power, each: one for the removal of the
stones and DEBRIS q second to pump out
the water and oil, and the third to force
down fresh air.
This shaft Is located upon the Sluf, near
ly or quite one hundred feet shove the
level of the creek. It was recently started
having now sdepth of about forty feet q
heavy framework and cribbing extending
down to the rock, to which some progress
has been made by blasting. d.
Much incredullty Is manifested as 70 tho
success of the undertaking, but those hsv-
ing II in charge are confident Of overcom-
ing all difficulties and reaping q reward in
bringing to light all the oil hidden in the
crevices which they may strike. They
have the land leased in their immediate
vicinity 30 that if they strike q crevice
containing oil they can explore It lsternlly
and obtain all the oil in it. An g~eologists
and oil men will watch the progress of the
work with lively interest. CHIPS.
Death or CeyIOn Hudson.
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