Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-03-11
THE Oil Well Supply Co.

I"OhEMOSI IN their Ane III lhe
~ world stands the Oil Well Supply
sCo. Its agents are to be found IN
4 every field, and everything ap-
pertaining to gas or oil well drilling is
manufactured or sold by this concern.
To fully detail every implement used
in drilling, and to fully describe the
various uses to which they are put
would extend unreasonably the proper
limits of this paper.
The Oil Well Supply Company are
now at work issuing a catalogue
which will be n mine Of information
and will illustrate every device used In
drilling wells. 1t has taken two years
constant labor to compile this wonder
fol work; which can be had on applica-
ton when completed. In the oil
regions Of Pennsylvania, Ohio and
New York, over one hundred thous-
and wells have been drilled since 1859.
In no other part of the world has this
industry been 80 greatly developed.
Thirty-two years Of experience has i'm
proved and perfected everv article
used, and thousand patents have
been taken out for valuable inventions
relating to the business.
The Oil Well Supply Company have
the largest and best equipped and most
numerous manufactures, and their
facilities for making well supplies are
not equalled by any other establish
ment in the world. They are the only
firm that can make everything needed.
All other dealers purchase more or
less from them, while they do not need
to purchase from any other establish
ment. They either own, control, or
have licenses under all the leading and
most valuable patents. They sell
everything required to drill, equip,
complete and operate an oil, salt, gas,
water or test well, and can send ex-
perienced and reliable workmen, with
the apparatus to any part Of the world.
Besides furnishing large part ofthe
supplies used in the oil and gas regions,
they are now furnishing men, machin-
cry and outfits for many Of the States
and Territories, and for Russia, Austria,
Hungary, Roumania, Cuba, Australia,
Central America, Mexico, Italy, Ger
many, and other countries. Every
thing they make or sell is Of the best
material, most perfect finish, thorough
ly tested and carefully inspected.
The stockholders Of Eaton, Cole &
Burnham Company, of 50 and S4
Fulton street, New York, are the prin-
cipal stockholders in the Oil Well Sup
ply Company. The two companies
have the same president and are init
mately connected in all business mat
ters. Their factories and shops are
located at various places in the
country. The brass and iron foun-
dries of the Eaton, Cole & Burnham
Co., at Bridgewater, Conn.,; their black
smith tool and machine shop, on North
Mechanic street, Bradford, Pa, Pitts
burg and Harmony, where drilling and
''fishing" tools are made.
Their sand reel shop on Davis street,
Bradford, Pa, where bull and band
wheels, sand reels and wooden rigs
are constructed. Their machine shop at
Oil City, Pa, where wrought iron and
steel work of all kinds is done, and
lumber and sucker rod mill at Van
Vert, Ohio, together with the tube
and pipe mills of the Elba Iron Works
and Continental Iron Works at Pitts
burg are all monuments Of the un-
firing energy which the masters hand
has guided in this great transition OF
mechanical and mercantile pursuit.
The principal stores of the company
are Bradford, Oil City and Pittsburg,
besides the branch stores at Bolivar,
N. Y, Clarendon, Warren, Derrick
City, Eldred, Washington, Butler,
Harmony, Mcdonald and Noblestown,
Pa; Findlay, Lima, Marietta, Ohio,
and New Cumberland, W. Va. The
company also furnishes other stores
and dealers with supplies 80 that they
practically cover every branch of the
business.
The new company was organized as
a corporation and charter granted in
the fall of 1891, with charter office at
Oil City. The main Office for the
northern district is in Bradford; south
ern district at 81 and 92, Water street,
Pittsburg. The capital stock is
81 800, 600 and the officers are John
Eaton, president; E. FL. Cole, vice.
president; K. Chickering, secretary; E.
T. Howes, treasurer, K. Saulnier, first
assistant treasurer and Louis Brown,
second assistant treasurer.
This vast concern with It's numerous
branches employs between 1900 and
1000 men and covers the oil and gas
territory Of the world. Its offices and
stores are all under the care of men
who understand the business
thoroughly and are punctilious In ac-
comodating patrons and strangers.