The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-28
Oil Intelligence.
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purpose of testing whether oil abounds
in the bowels of the earth thereabouts
One of them will bore at the sawmill
near town, using the steam-power OF the
mill for the purpose. This company has
leased considerable land adjoining.
The Washington county Eureka Oil
Company is sinking well on Ten Mile
Creek, and have met with partial sue
cess at 800 feet Other companies are
in process of organization, and will COM
mence operations soon i'll that neighbour
hood.
In Allen township, Washington coun-
| ty, Messrs Baker & Sons have leased
strip of bottom land, for oil purposes,
and will commence boring as soon as
their machinery arrives. There are sew
eral companies in Cookstown and vicin-
ity that are about to start. One compa-
nv, McCrory g. McFee, have got started
on Downer's run, and have got down
about one hundred feet, and are boring
day and night. Another company has
leased an old salt we'll below town, and
intend to open it up in the spring.
Another great oil well was struck, a
few days since, on Ellis Run, a tributary
of Goose Creek, Richie county, West
| Virginia, which is said to be flowing at
the rate of one hundred barrels per day.
The Bergen Oil Company, one day last
| week, struck q valuable vein of oil on
Cow Greek, in Peasants county. New
oil enterprises are being commenced on
Big Fishing Creek, in Wetzel county,
West Virginia, and a great deal of land
has changed hands. The county abounds
in oil, coal and minerals. Persons who
have visited the lands lying on the OPP
posite shore from Captina, Ohio, repre-
sent that there are good surface indica-
lions of oil, and that in some places the
grease may be seen oOzing from the
ground 1t is said that prospecting par
ties have already visited the lands. and
will, as soon As tho weather will permit,
commence the work Of sinking wells
The oil excitement is becoming intense
in the Kanawha valley, according TO the
Republican. 1t says the explorations in
all this portion of our State, are pro-
crossing with great zeal and activity
The favorable, and we might say, highly
encouraging surface indications of the
existence Of large quantities of the pure
article, somewhere down i'll the region of
natures great oil factory, are daily in
| creasing the number of oil men among
us. Some ten days ago, thirty odd agents
passed through this place, on their way
| to explore Clay and Nicholas counties,
where the oil indications are reported as
very favorable. We have Just been put
in possession of the fact, that a gentle
man capitalist, who is familiar with the
oil regions, from the famous Oil creek in
Pennsylvania down to this country, hav-
ing examined carefully tract of land in
Nichola county, belonging to friend Of
ours offered him one hundred and fifteen
thousand dollars for the traet-tfty thou
sand dollars cash down, and the balance
in short payments. Our friend has, for
some time, been Offering the same land
for sale at twenty-five thousand dollars
He now asks one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, and we have no doubt he
will get it, too.
The following interesting experiment
on an oil well is related by a correspon-
dent on a visit to the Yenango regions:
"On Saturday last, the long talked of ex-
pertinent of exploding submarine tor
pedo in an oil well, to enlarge its produce
ing capacity, was tried III the Ladies'
WELL on the Watson Flats, below Titus
vile. The torpedo contained eight
pounds of powder, and was applied at
depth of 463 feet. The explosion caused
the oil and water to shoot out of the well
some thirty feet into the air, and made
the ground groan like q great monster in
the agonies of death. The flow of oil,
water and paratfine continued some ten
minutes, when the disturbance subsidized
gradually, and oil appeared Oh the sur
face as fast as it could be dipped out with
a sand pump. The we'll was one which
had ceased to yield, on account-as is
supposed in most such cases-of the
seams or veins, from which the oil flows.
becoming filed with up with paraffine.-
The experiment was made by the inven-
tor of the appliance, Mr. Roberts, of
New York, who is about to introduce the
torpedo for general use. 1t is construct
ed upon the percussion plan, and so ar
ranged that it will explode after it has
reached depth where it is intended to
produce the desired effect. 1t is we'll
known fact that the roaming of an oil
we'll sometimes enlarges it so as to greatly
increase the yield of oil; and also that the
agitation of it, either by pumping or
forcing air into it, generally has the Same
result. Hence it has been concluded
that if an appliance could be used by
means OF which the sand stone OF oil
bearing rock could be broken up or rent
asunder, that of course the yield of oil
OF many small veins might be secured
for the same well. Mr. Roberts appli.
ance is so constructed to produce the re-
suit, and the first experiments made
with 1t indicate that the plan will prove
a success
The scientific explanation of Professor
Evans, of Marietta, Ohio, of the action
of petroleum wells is highly interesting.
According to his observations, this oil is
contained in cavities or fsures in the
rocks, in connection with both water and
gas. These are arranged, of course, &C.
eog3ing 20 their weight, the water at the