The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-11-21
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place We learn t0At tne Nelurum Wei', NO.
2, Armstrong Run, commenced flow.
ing yesterday, 1t was ruuored at the rate Of
1000 barrels per day. The well is en-
hitherto uudeveoped. The rur,or is doubt
less started to affect the oil market. Frcm
several operators who arc "pos.ed" on the
Arms.rorg Run territory We ara Informed
shat the big tlouing wells 10 thai v!cinity
are ny,i near!.~, newspaper accounts to
the contrary"
Such is the language Q: tho Petroleum
Centre Record. Il is also the language of
nearly every paper IN that region IS weli as
the wish of msny of its inhabitants. II the
Meldren well is q myth, We would like to
| know how It comee that, on Friday morn
| ing Of last week two days a0G a half alter
| the well vas struck. the owners of his we'll
| sold AID delivered 1000 barrels OF OIL,
aud had 600 barrels yet in tank. Does
| that look mythicsl. II the James well
with it's hundred barrels u day, the Jen-
nings well with it's hundred barrels day
| are myths, We have only to say that they
are the most tangible myths we have ever
eeen. Ii the james we'll in thirty days sold
81, 500 worth OF oil and had 400 barrels yet
ia tank, dou't you think that either "my TIL
| should he changed to mean something sub
stantial, or oil iteelf IL only conception OF
diseased imagination
Now, Mr.. Record, we have the biggest
wells in tho country; and numbers Of leases
being taken, the derricks that are going up
90 this field, give incontestible evidence Of
territory that puts to blush all other Iocali-
ties, and only equsled BY the great wells OF
Pithole. whose glory has vanQuisbed. East
Brady Independent.
BY the above it will be seen that the In
dependent man is getting riled up some
what. That the wells cn Armstrong Run
have flowed oil We do not deny, but that
they have flowed the vast amounts per day
ae set DOVE by the Independent and the
correspondent Of the Pittsburgh CONNER
ciaI, We have good authority for stating
ia not the sase, that:is il the own
ers of the wells themselves are to be taken
for authority. If the Independent man is
at sll posted in oil matters be should know
very we'll that the published account ofsuch
q large production while it may bene-
Ct few p arties Interested in giving out
leGses Or owniIg territory 10 the nsighbor-
injury to the entire region by knocking the
"bottom out" of the Oil market, upon which
the entire business of the o region has its
foundation, as when the market is dull
every other business cutters in proportion.
To show that the Independent msn is in
error in many respec cts We give few
facts in regard to Armstrong Run which
we have from the CONTRACTOR who drilled
the Walker we II and from the owners them
selves:
n EAST BRADT, Nov. l6, 1870.
Mr.. EDIron-Walker we'll is reported
by the Independent as flowing $50 barrels
daily till the ''bottom was punched out"
The fact is the well never flowed 25O bar
rels all it's production together. l. is Stat
whereas the first blow was struck by the
drill May 23d, 1870; the last Sept. 2lst,
1870. This item 10 about fair specimen
Of the reports that get into the Independent
and Pittsburgh Commercial. On Satur-
day, Nov. 18th, have it from men inter-
ested in keeping the production as high as
consistent Con psper) that the Jennings
we'll No. was yielding l4O barrels day
and falling off every day.
Again 10 his report of the depth of wells
he puts Scsrsdaie |, ,O26 feet, while its trne
depth was $3.50 feet, only 225 feet ou. Of
the way.
These particular instances are only no.
ticed to show the public what small rela-
bility there is in reports from that quar-
ter.
Yours, &c.
I N. u. p.
The above are but specimens of lhs
''facts" publish ed in the Independent and
Pittsburgh Commercial. We shall contin-
ue to give correct reports OF this second
Pitbole (!) from time to time as occasi on
may require. Let the Independent man
continue to ''pnffup" the territory as loug
as be gets we'll paid for it, but let him
place the production as near correct as pos.
sible and not send broad cast reports tend