The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-14
Wilcox Notes.

w l1COA, Pcb. L., 1000
Mr.. Vansickels will have rig
up this week.
The Schultz we'll No. 8 is still pro-
ducing its regular quantity of oil.
Mr.. Beviers No. l is all ready for
the drill, waiting for the driving pipe
and drillers.
Mrs. Ernhout's Musical. Entertain
ment was grand sweep. The house
was filled and all were delighted. Re-
ceipts about sixty dollars.
-Ernhout G. Taylor's No. is down
nearly five hundred feet. Their No.
2will be ready for DWELLING this week
and No. has the foundation in.
Arthur Payne, a boy about twelve
years old, son of G. A. Payne, photo
graph artist, died to-day about twelve
o'clock of diphtheria. They have a
young girl sick with the same disease,
and it is doubtful if she RECEIVERS.
Last week, George Schriner, lad
about ten years old, fell forty feet
| down an elevator shaft in the Tan
ming Co.'S drying loft, dislocating one
knee and fracturing some bones about
the same. The elevator extends to
the top of an eight story building
with landings on each floor. 1t seems
| the boy has been in the habit of taxi
ing hold of the railing and swinging
himself into the shaft. This time he
went to the fifth story and swung
himself over the railing when his
hands slipped off, and he fell to the
bottom, and strangely escaped with
to be a sort of fatality about it, for the
| boy says he never went near that
shaft but that he had an irresistible
desire to swing in it, and in the boys
own words he could not help it and
says if he was there now he believes
he would have to go through the same
performance. By-the-way, this is
the same boy that accidentally broke
Willie Coles leg by running into him
with hand sled and both boys are
laid up for the winter, undergoing
repairs for the summers campaign.
A correspondent of the Derrick
writes from Bradford: The produc-
ton of the district has gradually in
creased until at the present time it is
estimated in round numbers at nine
thousand barrels. The pipe line runs
for the month of December showed
that about S,400 barrels had been run
daily. During the last month the
pipe line runs will not give fair esti.
mate of the production of the district
The increasing production and the
partial shut down on shipments about
a month ago has left the pipe line men
in an embarrassing position. The
tankage controlled by the United
Lines aggregates alb out 225,000 barrels
which is found to be inadequate foI
the increasing business of the region.
| Wooden tanks of all sizes are being
built and many of the large companies
and heavy individual operators either
have tanks bdilding or have let con-
tracts for their immediate construc-
ton. AS early as April first the men
who best understand the drift OF
things up north estimate that iron
tanks with a capacity of two hundred
thousand barrels will be completed,
and that in three months from the
present time there will be iron tank
age for three hundred thousand bar
rels. When these are completed
should some combination of circum-
stances, j. @. crooked dealings of the
Standard Oil Company not apparent
to the average producer, or an over
production bring about low prices, the
boys who are now investing in sheet
iron will be able to load up to hand
some advantage.