Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-04-04
TiiE MODERN OH. REGrONx.
Three Thousand Well. sunk Last Year
Over u Thousand Miles of Pips
Lincs-Over Twenty Million Barrels
DION Produced Al Year.
Correspondence y. Y. Tines.l


CLEAN, n. y, March 3l.-This placc
1876 miles from New York on the Erie
road, is lively town OF sonnet hing more
than 300 inhabiIanrs. The very name has
an olra.inous sound, bul rese.rch declares
that Oeln was 81 called lont before the ey.
is,encc of petroleum wa. dreamed of How
ever, It is "A good name fora place the chief
staple Of which is oil aud the life of which "a
oil. 1t is no, producing strict, but, lying
at the verge Of the I}r tdford oil district, il
has been made the centre of the United
the great New York pipe line of tic
National Transit c,mpuny l. is more than
20 years since the first oil fever in the upp,r
Allegany region. when Oh City aud pi,hole.
Titusvllc and Tiheoutc were famous names
IN oil annals. What huge sp,u,inp wells
were opened in those DAYS. the floods Of
which went sadly TO waste. Old oil men of
to- day almost wcen over the drunken OK.
ccsses of nature in those times, ard The vast
waste IS one of the best remembered facts of
the first petroleum era. That system ONLY
| began to be amended Il few Years ago by the
methods readily TO tie studied here,
| The Bradford oil.tieid tgtcs irs name from,
the principal Pennsylvania town q, his re-.
gi0n, of nearly 10000 Inhabitants. the
| Nov Yn,l S,.ip oiI.aold odi;a;',l, ,,,t,o
as far north us FIicndsbiD and Roiivor and
east to include WellsyIlle The oil ia songbt
in the "third sand at dentb of frnm 300
to 2, 900 feet. the av,rar. cast IF rnochino
that depth being about - 600 Tniess #
proves dry holc. the wrn n, his drnih
finds oil or gas, or ;y,itn. A better system Of
manipulating las made well buinS an nd.
vanced science. Tools are better. and there
are less delays aud feScr accidents than in
lhc Old times. When pas ia found il 70
better priced thaD formerly and the hmsines.
of its collection and sunnlv is carried IN Nv
several flourishinr c1mranies Oni,c n
number of th. towns and viIIa1oc Hf ,bis
section use no other fuel or ilumipatnr
and the happy householder has no wool
pile or coal.bin f. care fo, rho
charge for supplyinr cnnLinr e,ovoo 10
from 50 to "a ptr mnlih md fnr hao,,rT
stoves from 20 10 SO fh,t for r,ngsa fnr.
naces, and steam b5i,'rrs some for 1hr Ia,tnr
in very large manuTac,urinp estahliahmrn,e
is by meter, rhn Town If poIiyor nr'ornts
mos, brilliant rverit sn,cIan, S,,, ,e
Tapping banners ot Gas flame from ~ ~ ~
pipes at the qIresl CORNERS caS no,l is
| therefore. NOT III. disannoin,moa, I, f,rn,arI
was held TO he Tho @ns Ia of avn'iIan,
quality and by its lirL hern vnur corrsa'
pondcnt nris In form, lie no,oo fr,,'' ,i,o 30,
fields. wv VIZ
Tho oil men seem 10 uu,lo in Ioud or.ioe If
| the new system. which i'm every rosncc,
seems TO have mt the oil bnsncss On q ha,tor
basis. There Ia less wild snecn,oti"r 'o ona
less uncertainty. II is only three NJ fn n
years since the Weld Of III north Of ,ho
Pennsylyapil S,otri,c hoga,, ',roo u uno
Der of wells have been sunni some - ,ho ia,nr
ones NV nrovnr drv ora Wv
limited territory of ihis oil MA U,, " ono .'ie
struck with The fac, vourhnd e. i',, 10
men and substantialc6 NV Ia,,iv ,, tTu VI,
oil statistics that div yyniie "ro 49,, a''iof
share of the whole 1umhar sunl, tTh S"'i ~
the whole Drndford ALA IN 1890 - nuo ~
$50 wells completed Of these on Tv % w were