Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-27
NOTES OFTHEE EXCURSION TO THE
OIL REGIONS.
Rsfneries and Wells on Cherry Run.
ROUSEVILLE AND THE TWO MIL
LIONS TARR FARM.

OIL CITY, Oct. 10, 1865.
The route from Pithole City to Oil City
was over the hills to Cherry Run, thence
to and down Oil Creek. Cherry Run was
struck at the Humbolt Refinery in Plumer,
and next to Downer's at Cory, the most
extensive works in Petrolia. The number
of stills in the Humboldt refinery is twenty,
and their capacity is a thousand barrels
per week. Humbolt oil has been for the
most part exported to Europe. The works
are idle now. The refinery of the Messrs.
Warren, also at Plumer, contain sixteen
stills, with a capacity of nine hundred bar
rels per week. Below Plumer the woods
on Cherry Run are dotted with occasional
derricks, increasing in frequency until such
celebrated wells as the Reed, the Noun
tain, the Auburn, the Yankee, etc, are
passed. The productive wells are mainly
along the Run within two miles of its
mouth, for which distance the valley and
hill sides are punctured every few rods,
the derricks bristling like masts in a busy
port. Single acres contain twenty-five
derricks, and the smokes of working en-
gines give the locality quite a Pittsburgh
look. Big fortunes have been made on
Cherry Run, and that many more are an
ticipated is shown by the erection of over
three hundred new derricks in six miles
along the oily stream.
ROuspville gituatad whara Chorr,, D,,,
joins Oil Creek, is one of the most active
valley villages, and was Named after Mr..
Rouse, the proprietor of the Farm, who
persisted, with twenty-six Others. by the
burning of a well in the vicinity. Rouse
vile is in the centre of oil works and
wealth, for Oil Creek, directly opposite, as
well as above and below, yields treasures
untold. Just above is the celebrated Tarr
Farm, from which a portion of the oil
raised is forced by a powerful pumping
apparatus, over the hills to the Humbolt
refinery, three miles distant. This Farm
has yielded more oil than any other in
Venango county. A vi~llageoftifty houses
and huts on the hill, derricks crowding
each other in the valley, and acres of tanks
along the margin of the creek, show what
has been done for oil. The Phillips Well,
opened in October, 1861, flowed th~irty-nine
hundred and forty barrels in a single day !
In December the Woodford Well, seven
ty-tive feet off, tapped the Phillips, spout
ed sixty feet into the air, followed by a
flow of nearly two thousand barrels a day.
This measurably dried up the Phillips, and
both wells are now pumping. Mr.. Tarr,
a poor raftsman before oil DEVELOPMENTS.
sold his estate for over two millions, a good
bargain to the Tarr Farm Petroleum Com
pany. For some time previous to the sale
his daily income from oil leases was count
ed by thousands of dollars.
Immediately below housewife is the
oily Buchanan Farm, then the McClintock
Farms and the Clapp, all full of wells and
derricks. Some five hundred wells have
been bored between Housewife and Oil
City, three miles, and over four hundred
derricks are still standing. The number
Of wells put down on Oil Creek proper is
estimated at two thousand, with five hun
dred more in progress. Along the various
streams discharging into that great oil ar
terry, are one thousand more, either finish
ed or going down.
The estimated daily production of pc
troleum at the present time is about as fol-
lows for the respective farms and locali-
ties