The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-01
FROM The Oil COUNTRY.
Creek Wells s--- The accident
Upon the Oh Creek Railroad.

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SuRar Creek weIIs..-- The Accident
Upon the Oh Creek Railroad.
rsuecial Correspondents Of the Cleveland LEApHSl
SUGAR CREEK, Pa, Aug. %, 1865.
Sugar Creek developments have been
somewhat neglected of late in this cores
pondence, and your readers will be pleased
to have 8 report from territory IN which
Cleveland capital is SO largely inVested.-
Upon the whole, the reports from that
portion of the oil field are very encoursg-
ing. and if not as satisfactory as they might
be, are still far from unsatisfactory. One
fact is of great Importance and interest
It's, that there is a paying well above
OooperstoWn. Hitherto but little success
has been met with above the McOalmut
we'll, two miles below the above place, and
operators or holders of territory above that
point were disheRrtened at the continued
want of success. But upon the main branch
or middle stream, and about two miles
above Cooperstown, Gen. Wslbridge, of
| New York, and one other partner, Col
Castle, perseVered in his determined efforts
to find oil and has succeeded in getting fu4l
twenty (2O) barrels of l~ubricsting oil per
day, al q depth of $50 feet. The greater
portion of the Sugar Greek wells are less
than 400 feet in depth. The Castle we'll
began to yield on the 14th inst, and is
producing, as above stated, twenty barrels
per day, although the fresh water had not
been exhausted at last accounts, whichtsct
induces the expectation that q much larger
Weld will be obtained when the salt water
veins are opened. The sum of ($6O,0OO)
sixty thousand dollars cash was refused for
the well ten days g {. The oil is of the
same gravity as that at the Shipper well,
near the mouth of the Greek.
The wells upon Upper Sugar Creek are
looking very favorable. The Mason well,
one half mile above the Castle well, has
Welded some oil, although not in paying
quantities, as yet. The Griffin well, upon
the Crane farm, one half mile above Coop
erstown, upon the Lake branch, is now
down 600 feet. It was tubed first at $50
feet, but, although some oil was produced,
it was not in sufficient quantities to satisfy
the owners, and they sunk it deeper and
have Just tubed it again.
The Patterson well, Immediately below
Oooperstown, in which Clevelanders are
largely interested, has not yet produced
largely, although the Superintendent feels
confident of yet making 8 good we'll of it
Upon the Crawford farm, n~extsboYe the
Crane farm, q Philadelphia Company have
q well nearly down and claim an usually
good "show."
The McCalmont we'll is producing about
seven (7) barrels per day regularly. a lo'
of two hundred and fifty barrels was solo
here G week ago at $24 per barrel. SomC
difference bet tween that and 81 70 per bar
rel, which wss being received at the ssmC
time a. Pithole by the owners of the big
well; there, Ell only eight to one in favol
The Shipper well holds its own verJ
handsomely, yielding nearly fifty bar
rels per day. The same Company
have a number of new and good wells neal
the Shipper. One quite near (aeross thu
turnpike) is yielding about fifteen bar rel
while a second yields about ten barrels PEI
day. The junction Company are getting
about fifteen barrels from their we'll below
the Shipper, and have another we'll very
neatly completed. The Brown farm we'll
sre likewise doing well.
The operators upon Sugar Creek tall
more confidently of their prospects thai
they have done at any previous time sine
the food of March last. They have nj
doubt that Sugar Creek territory will prov,
permanently good. 1 am not sure whethe
l have reported to you in my previous let
ter the sale of nineteen acres of the HsW
= thorne farm, upo1 the west side of Suga
Creek, and just below the Day farm, TO
$50, 900 in cash. The sale was q bona Jd
one.
The late accident upon the Oil Creel
Railroad was q horrible one, and as thor
oughly inexcusable as it was shocking
! We have not yet-thank HeRven-got q
used to these railroad massacres as thu
public seem to be in some Of the Eastern
States, and hence it was not impossible Il
get q Coroner's jury to promptly and de
cisively investigate the accident and rem
der . verdict in accordance with the facts
The community in the oil regions may b,
in many respects rough and unciVilizsd
but they have q practical common sens,
way Of dealing with c~riminality, eitheI
private or corporate, that is refreshing anC
assuring. Thus, when murder and rob
berry begun their work here last year, j
was speedily understood that vigilanc,
committees had provided impromptu glib
bets for all future offenders, and the ROBBIE
and murderer skunk swiftly away. AND
: thus, when BY this accident passengers VIII
, could not find room inside the CARS, anC
were therefore compelled f. stand on tn
; platform, were killed and manned, tn
, Coroners jury plainly and distinctly de
clare that they "cgnnot separate Withou
expressing their Indignation that psssen
gers are compelled to risk their lives upol
, tie Oil Greek Railroad for want of sufi
Gent accommoda tion in the cars, in proc
: of which the serious injuries and death
were confined to those persons who wer
unable to find seats in the passenger cars
Let such q plain spoken verdict as thi
: (when the facts warrant it, be signed AnC
published by every jury under similar cir
cumstancss land accompanied as this wa
by q request for the apprehension of tn,
most guilty parties to the collision), anC
we should have fewer railway slaughters Il
chronicle or read. CHIPS.
Geauga County Union Convention.
The Gesugs County Union Convention
met at Chardon on Saturday last. D. W
Converse was chosen President. The fol