The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-04-30
petroleum Item. from ,ciI s5urcca.

Pittsburgh Commercial of yesterday. IL
will be found OF interest:
BRApr's BEND. I
WEDNESDAY, April u, 1870
Since the recent oil strikes on Armstrong
run. short distance above Brady's Bend.
in Armstrong county, and opposite Sarah
Furnace station. on the Allegheny Valley
railroad. the excitement runs high.
The oil company is composed of j. +.
Fleming, r Brenaman, X. Jennings and
Colonel W. d. Slack. of Brady's Bend;
james Morrison aud j Ohm a. Brown. of Par.
kers; g. r. Neal and j. McCreish.on, Of
Pittsburgh. These gentlemen formed them
selves into on organization to b. known as
tho Armstrong Run Oil Company. The
company accepted a proposition IRON Messrs
Jennings, Morrison. Weldon and CLARK
four pioneers of tho vicinity, to this effect:
The said farmers. in consideration of the
boring, testing and working to complete an
oil well, would cede twenty-five acres from
their farms equally, the company TO own
and work said land for the period of ninei..
nine years, without royalty, etc. The Com
pany located site on tho angles Of the
| losr farms, and commenced operations i'm
pediately. with what rtsnts the readers Of
the Commercial from time TO time have
been fully posted.
! The dTilers had not reached the intended
depth below the third sand rock, until they
suddenly struck oil, aud being entirely un-
| prepared for such erccrss, the Oil from tie
well took fire, and barred for several days
| The flames at times reached fifty fee. in
height, and illuminated the heavpDs at
night, to such on extent. that it was visible
many miles away. The gas was Of course
| forced higher in the air than the oil, the
flames were at times above the oil. and the
Efforts OF the operatives were divided in
dividing the two and s,aothering the flames.
although the heat was intense. They were
nccess9nl 10 their e.f,rts. ss the tire was
tboughtless individual struck luei.er
match ia the vicinity, for he purpose Of
| lighting his pipe, aud ignited the gas and
oil which WAS lying on the ground, and the
whole fiat took fire. AS long as there was
anything TO burn the fire ragged, hut every pr, .
caution was taken TO prevent the flames
from again reaohing tie well, in which
also they were highly successful.
The oil flowed ut Random over The ground
aud into the slnaI! stream, Or run. Ruts
ard pits were dug into tie ground. into
which the oil flowed, and ont Of which it
was d pped into barrels, casks and every
rort of vessel that could be fcund in the
vicinity The FIRST tank has been erected
about eight days, sudty this time :heie are
ionr OF them, holding an average Of 600 bar
rails each. The we'll ia now cased with a
cap pipe or chamber about six inches in
diameter, to which has been attached three
separate two and q quarter inch pipes.
through which the Gil flows TO the tanks
The three pipes are to divide the iC,ce OF
the flow, and one single pipe is to be placed
! over The well large enongh 10 give the oil
free flow into the tanSs.
The rope and tools are still! in The well,
and not withstanding tais fact 2l0 barrels
were The actual account for Wednesday,
with 200 barrels per day as the average for
the previo,l day. The we'll is expected 10
flow $50 to 800 bbls daily with u single pipe
II is the intention Il the company not to
at,emp. to eytricate the tools and rope from
the W ell as long as the oil is flowing freely
TIE quality cf the oil is 4G gravity, and
ia said 10 be far superior to Parkers Land
ing and Oil Creek oil.
The original company as already iHdicat-
ell is composed Of tea gentlemen who will
only he Recognized, we are Informed, al
though M.esrs. Wagner, Fleming, Brena-
man aud anothcr-whase name We have
mislaid-.haye sold fraction Of then in-
terest. One sold one-.wentieih Tor SO eco;
ano,hcr sold twentieth FOR $4,000 on the
day the well took fire.
The value OF tho property has gone up to
fabulous sums. Some Of these farms could
have been bought little while ago at
$4,000. but now one OF the farmers has re-
fused $3.50, ,0pO tor his farm. There is ore
tract Of ioTty scirs in dispute. and win pro.
badly be thrown into the courts OF Arn-
strong county. 1t appears that Jesse Fri,Z.
an Old Pltlsburgbcr and successful oil land
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