East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-11-15

that number were put down within
the time mentioned.
PRICE OF LANDS.
The price of lands in the vicinity of
Petrolia varies from 800 to 81 900 per
acre, according to the lacation; those
on the flats bordering the creeks being
greatly preferred, though the advan-
tages of such are limited to enhanced
facilities for procuring water, and a
lessening of perhaps thirty feet in
the extent of earthly perforation re-
CURED. The real estate transactions
at Petrolia during the past 30 days
aggregate at least quarter of a mil
lion Of dollars, and the purchasers are
in the main of a decidedly "solid"
class. Hon. Mr.. Mcdonald, a promi-
nent and successful politicion, who
holds an important position in the
Canadian government, has lately made
a heavy purchase in the vicinity,
Hon. John T.. Cook, a prominent
banker of Hillsdale, Mich, DIR. Geo.
X. johnson, of Detroit, late Of tho
u. s. Army, Thos. Edsell of Goshen,
N. Y, and large number of the
shrewdest and most substantial men
of this city have also invested in that
Locality, some of whom are experience
ed men, having large interests at Pit
Hole and other points in the Pennsyl-
vannia oil district.
TRANSPORTATION.
The Great Western Railway Co.
have taken hold of the plank road be-
tween Petrolia and Wyoming, now,
as elsewhere intermated, in a shocking
bad condition, and have pledged them
selves to put it once in good repair,
this done, and the facilities for trans
portation of oil to market, and ma
chinery, lumber supplies and all nee
essary apparatus, goods, wares and
merchandise to to the oil regions, will
be ample and convenient. The Cres-
cent Association, the largest concern
now operating at Petrolia, having
twelve wells completed and in progress,
FIVE of which are yielding oil, being
greatly interested in these matters, are
using their utmost exertions to for
ward all projects for general improve
m!!.cnt. A telegraph office is now GO
ing up on their premises to connect
with the line from Oil City to Wyom-
ing, and thence to tho "rost of man.
kind" and their local headquarters
at the Hotel dc Wheelright, seem to
be the general headquarters for OBJ
tanning all manner Of information
throughout this particular district.
TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP.
Saturday morning bright early in
company with Messrs EDsELr, SPAN
oLER and BUSDY, we started by Foot
e. W"iLo~'s ~a,;ohle line for n recon
noissance in force Of the Petrolia dis
trict; visited the aforementioned
Wadde well, from which an enchant-
ing stream of crude gushes at most
tempting rate, and other less preten-
tious wells close by, also all the Cres-
cent wells, including the rara ar,s of
equine proclivities; tramped on to the
Saginaw company's location, a tract
of 100 acres, splendidly situated on
the border of Bear Greek; down by
the margin of the Durham to the low
er Dunn well, whore by the aid of
horse power of such primitive con-
struction as would make forty-fifth
rate wood-butcher from yankeedom
laugh, the earth has been tortured
into yielding a fine show of oil, up by
tho sinuosities of that burbling brook;
through the tax-title lot" and across
diagonally through moor and meadow
and "deep tangled tangled wild wood,
over fences, creeks, ravines, bitches and
brush-heaps at 2.40-avoirdupois-
gait, to the place of beginning, be the
same more less. What we saw then
and there enables us to make this
statement there are no failures, no
"dry hole" experiments in the Petro-
liza District, each well is success, and
in majority of cases, in our opinion,
the measure of such success has been
In proportion to the care bestowed in
boring, and the discretion used in the
subsequent tubing and pumping Of
the well, and there is yet abundant
margin for improvement as regards
both these matters.
MISCELLANEOUS.