The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-27

England hau IN nuunng when ho Got So
that 'he couldn't fiddle, at ALL" But the
signs are good The Kanawha, with all
lis tributaries, courses through good oil
territory Hughes river was years ago
noted for its oil As early as 1916, Mr..
Bosworth, Of Marietta, obtained oil here,
and furnished il TO various parties. Ii
was used for medicinal purposes, forming,
with other compounds, linments. Ii
was worth then abont twenty cents per
gallon. In 1sI0, Messrs Bosworth and
Wells controlled the whole Hughes re-
gion, and shipped on ansversge of about
800 barrels year
The Morgan farm, on the main branch
of Stone creek, is held at $4,000. On the
right hand branch of Stone creek, is
Drover's farm, lately sold for Sl00,OO0.-.
Near il are burning springs. Among
the first developments of oil made i'm
this county, were those ON the Fathbons
tract ,near Burning Springs, Writ comfy
The property is now owned by New York
capitalists The quality OF oil found is
said TO be superior To that in the best oil
districts OF Pennsylvania. ,..r
The Handlin Wells, fifteen in number
are on Oil Greek, two miles from Petro-
leum station. They are owned by Messrs
Ford aud Hobbs, of Wheeling. The
wells ara scattered along the creek for
distance of a mile, In the centre is an
engine; gearing runs out on either side,
connecting and working all the wells at
the same time The last well averages
about five barrels in twenty-iour hours
the poorest well not over q barrel
week AZ each we'll is tank hold.
ing from twenty to thirty barrels
The deepest well Is 800 feet. The aver
age depth OF all Of them Is les teet Tho
single engine that works these wells cost
about 81 400. Ii is twenty-five horse
power, and works successfully with thir.
ty pounds of steam. On the same range,
eighteen other wells are being sunk
Lang & Co. are al work furt er up th.
creek Of the lhndlin wells, three yield
the highest Illuminating, while the Others,
side 10y side within, yield the heaviest lu-
bricatmg oil The former is shipped Ia
Louisville, while all the latter goes hy
contract To the Baltiinopc aud Ohio rail
road, at seventy-iive cents per gallon
The certainty ofoil aud not its quantity,
is what gives value 10 the oil Creek rc.
gion. No well has yet been sunk along
the whole range of this stream, that has
not produced more or less oil and only
one has been bored that il didn't pay 10
pump. One of tho llaBdliu wells struck
oil at thirty feet, and averaged forty
barrels a week On Myers fork the Pc.
troleum Virginia Oil Company have
leased 800 acres Civ ing one tenth roy
atty At first, some of the wells rnn six
ty barrels in six hours
Great preparations are being made tor
spring work Engines arr dali lyauiving
at the depot here, and being taken into
the country Mcu from oll Creek and
the Pennsylvania regions are here They
invest heavily. thus Indicating the e,tl
nation they put upon tho laud The
city is Just now infested with oiI Spccu-
lators Very few content Themselves
with working out results. There -
brokerage going on here extensive
enough to demoraIiLc any community
The Psalmist observes in one place, II
said in my haste all Inen are liars;" had
he lived in oildom, hesmight have said il
at his laasure, Money kills morals. There
isn't any conscience in oil Men just mp
from the shorter catcchism forget tho
chief end. rs soon as any body speaks
of petroleum. Carlyle i, very stout on
shdms, and winds up one of his nervous
whines with the remark that, at IL 10
be prayed by all ,Inen that shame may
cease" think il II 10 he prayed by all
men that oil may cease, OF at least sus-
pend until some Yankee thinkers get mp
"A method by which oil and honesty may
blend