Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-27
The New Oil Regions.

The New Oil Regions. Extract from a Letter from q New Haven | Gentleman-Great Excitement-Fabu- l lOus Prfces-The Great Yield of Oil- i Gas for Fuel for the eLocomotfves-The | Rush of People.
 From a private letter from a we'll known New Haven man we extract the following re- garding the great interest over the new oil regions in New York State and the attendant upheaval and rush of settlers in conse- quence:
 EXTRACT FROM PRIVATE LETTER.
 I have been through the new oil region in the State of New York, in and between the towns of Richburg and Bolivar. Last May both were small towns, about which IS fine grazing land which could have been bought for from fifty to one hundred and fifty dol lars an acre. Last May party conceived the idea that oil could be procured and ac- cordingly put up derrick, borsd and struck oil" A 300 barrel we'll was the result Since then crowds of adventurers, specula- tors, &c., have crowded into these two towns until there are hundreds of new dwell ing houses and thousands of derricks, and unlike other localities where oil has been found, no ''dry well'' has been struck; all have proved producers, from 25 to 300 bar rels per day. The excitement has been and is tremendous. There was at one time no accommodation for man or beast. They paid as high as one dollar night for the privilege of sleeping in a barn and fabulous prices have been paid for land at that place
 The night I was at Bradford, Pa, I saw the party-the man (whom I was told by a pretty reliable party) had bought that day 227 acres near Bolivar, for which he paid two hundred and twenty seven thousand dol lars, which tract of 227 acres they were to cut up into oil plots and sell or lease to par ties to sink wells. This land was fine gra- zng land and would have brought perhaps from one to one hundred and fifty dollars an acre before the late discovery of oil. The Alleghany Central railroad, which is running through these oil lands and the towns of Richburg and Bolivar, is doing an immense business. They get five cents mile for passengers and ten cents a ton for freight and are earning the interest on all the bonds and some ten per cent on the stock. It is 8 new road, the terminus of which is to be Rochester, N. Y, which will be direct line from Pittsburg, Pa, to Rochester, N. 4., and be an immense benefit to that section of the State. For instance Angelica is in direct line some sixty miles from Rochester but the inhabitants are obliged to go in zlgzag route one hundred and seventy miles to get
 
 giving then direct line to Rochester, from which place muck of the supplies will be sent for the new oil region. The fuel used to run the engines, &c., is the gas which comes from the wells.
 Immense copper tanks are being erected on the ground to hold from twe enty to forty thousand barrels of oil. In the town ot Bolivar the lots are selling for dwelling houses at fifty dollars foot front (ffty to txyH of a land could have been bought one year ago for twice that sum per acre. l am now on my way-"On to Richmond !"-further South, and perhaps l will write you again ii I have time. The West is not the only part | of the country which is growing. New rail roads and extensions of old ones are being built in the old and long settled parts of the country, opening up large agricultural dis tricts In the Genesee valley, through which the new Alleghany Central roads runs, are I many cheese factories, which produce tons oi fine cheese each year, and the opening o1 these new roads through those old towns in fuses new life into their inhabitants ano | brings out new industries. Among the in dustries which have been stimulated is hem | lock bark for tanning leather. The state l ment is made to me by 8 gentleman in tht ! town of Clean that the advantage of tha | one article to that town is immense.
 Chip smith.
 ! Chip Smith, who is sentenced to be hanged l May 9th, has recovered somewhat from thu | that the Legislature would not interfere il
 his case, and his appetite has returned 4 canary bird and two or three towering plant ] have been added to his cell He has quite l lot of engravings on the cell walls, and ol
 the table are number of knic -knacks fo | his personal use. A young Ansonia frient ! brought him recently lot of tobacco, whicl helped revive his spirits. He has man. callers from Ansonia, one of whom, with som | bitterness of tone doubted the propriety O 1 hanging this youth while the State prisol contains so many matured wretches who hay l escaped the gallows.
 A Petition for & New Train to New York A petition having the signatures of man 1 prominent merchants. manufacturers an
 others of this city has been shown us
 Another equally numerously signed is in ci1
 culation They ask the Consolidated Rail
 road company to put on new train fror
 this city to New York, to stop only at Bridge
 port, Norwalk and Stamford, the train t
 leave at 7:5O a. m. and arrive in New York 6
 about 10 8. m. The petitioners set fort
 that a large class of the community con
 pelled to patronize the line constantly fin
 much inconvenience in not having such
 train as that asked for ; that the train leaN ing at S:15 B. m. does not enable them t reach down town in the metropolis until 1
 o'clock, and that if they take the earlier trai they have to leave generally before breal fasting. They think that the 7:5O trai ] asked for would greatly accommodate thel
 and serve public want, and that the gran
 ing of such train would cause lively sati [ faction.
 West Haven.
 Samuel Mallory the carpenter, is buildir - 8 cottage on Beach street, near Hinman' 3 for Alderman Shoninger, of this city. He
 also going to build two for Henry c. Parde
 on the same street, near Daniel Trowbridge 8 summer residence. MT. Hendryx, the bil l cage man, is also to have cottage built ( the same street. One of the Smedley Bro 8 is to have two cottages built on Peck avenu | near Oriental Park. George R. Kelsey, Esq l whose residence Is on the corner of Campbe : avenue and Center street, is having the wa r fronting his grounds curbed and laid in col . crete distance of 800 feet.
 o There was quite riot in house on Pe' Q avenue, near Brown street, last Thursds
 evening" and Grand Juror Painter and Depu v Sheriff Peck were called to quell 1t and hi l. quite hard fight Deputy Sheriff Peck hs z to draw his revolver to bring the rioters
 terms, and three of them found themselv Q in the borough lookup next morning. Duril 8 the melee Mr. Painter was rather rough l handled. but he was match foz them. I |, gave one blow straight from the should
 and laid him out, and left one with beau ; ful black eye Four of them had their tr y on Friday before Justice Booth, and t. s borough treasury was enriched nearly eigh 6 ! dollars.
 Entertn i nments.
 r NAT GOODWIN AND ELIZA WEATHERsBY. 1T Nat Goodwin, jr., Eliza Weathersby and
 1 pood company will present sIMember