Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-08
WASHINGTON COUNTY, PA.
The Niagara OIL Company-Its Exten.
siye work-Hlstoricf fRyette.


WAsHISGToN, PA, December The
Niagara Oil Company. whose main office is
M Buffalo, y. V, still continue their re-
searches after the oleaginous fluid in this
county They have registered at the re-
cordcr's Office one hundred and forty-siX
leases comprising nineteen thousand one
hundred and sixty-thrcc and one-half acres,
distributed among the following townships:
Hopewell. 81 leases and 5,0i2 acres; Cross
Creek, ~ leases and 1881 acres; MI. l'leaS-
ant, A leases and 6,623; jefferson, Z leases
and 956 acres; Independence, leases anu
l.OOl u acres: Canton, q leases and I9J acres;
Buffalo. lease and lG5 acres. One we'll
stvled the McGugin WELLS over 400 feet
deep but still in the sand rock. Several
others are progressing slowly. report
was current a few days ago that oil had
been struck, but We could trace II To no re-
liable party.
Washington county is not the only noted
county in western Pennsylvania. Among
other things, our neighboring county of
Fayette puts forward the following claims;
The first iron suspension bridge in the
world was built at Bridgeport, Pa. the
first bar Of iron rolled in America was
made at Upper Middletown; in the Red.
stone Baptist congregation occurred
the division which, through the
instrumentality of Alexander Campbell
originated the Disciple Church: at old
Madison College Bishop Matthew Simpson.
late President of the Methodist Ecumcnical
Conference, received his education; ut
New Haven, on the Youghiogheny river.
resided William Crawford, first President
Judge Of Wastmoreland county, when II
embraced nearly all Of Western PennSyl.
vania, and commandcr-ln -chiei oi the iatai
expedition against the Wyandottes OF San.
dusky. in 1892. when and where he was
burned at the stake; at New Geneva, named
after his native Swiss home, lived Albert
Gallatin. Secretary Of the Treasury and
Minister Plcnipotentiary and Envoy ES-
traurdinary To France; in Wharton town.
shin rcposc the remains Of General Edward
Braddock. buried in u mountain spot in
1853, after his disastrous expedition against
Fort Duuucsne: at Great Meadows on July
4th. 1854, George Washington fought MS
first battle and surrendered to the French,
who allowed the garrison To march out
with flying colOrs," while at Union
town John Bouvier studied law, was ad-
mittcd TO the bar in lsis and began his
standard work, BOuvicr's Law Dictionary,
The record of the Washington cemetery
shows ] ,J75 burials up To this week. The
first interment was made on November !,
1858 The above figures include a great
many removals from other grayeyards.
The miners Of the Monongahela valley
are establishing a fund, by monthly CON
tributions of twenty-five cents, for the re-
lief Of any OF their number from sickness
or accident.
A Court-martinl Of nine non-commis-
stoned officers and privates OF Company
f.. Tenth Pennsylvania Regiment, is being
held at this place. The charge Is neglect
Of duty and disobcdcncc of orders, This
was during the late Centennial celebration,
when the members on trial turne1. out
with the fire companies instead Of the
military company. Captai.l James y. Say
ers, Of Waynesburg, is .Iolding the court.