Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1894-01-05
Oil Notes.

The consumption of crude oil now ex.
ceeds the production in this country, and
the surplus stock is said to have been re-
duced by 5000, 600 barrels last year.
The Grove Oil Co.'S. No. on the Cowan
farm in Middlesex came in flowing Xmas
morning, and is doing 60 bbls.
The Thompson Oil Co. completed their
tenth well the 29th of December, on the
W. B. Thompson farm, and is doing 40
barrel daily. Other wells are already
located on this lease and will soon 60 to
work.
The v eaver we'll near North Washing
ton is reported to be doing 100 barrels a
| day.
The Russian Oil Field produced thirty
five millions barrels last year. The bulk
OF this came from the Apsheron peninsula
which juts out into the Caspian Sea some
sixty or seventy miles, and on which the
town of Baku, with its refneries is located,
but the oil producing territory is known to
extend the entire length of the Caucasian
Mountains, from the Caspian to the Black
Sea, distance of 1900 miles and the belt
is supposed to be about ten miles wide.
Oil has been found all along this belt at an
altitude of 5000 feet above sea level and
600 feet below. The wells on the peninsu-
la vary from 100 to 825 feet in depth.
In its review of the oil fields for the past
year the Derrick of Monday says: In But
Ter county territory the Brownsville field
has stood alone as the stellar attraction ex-
cept for little development near North
Washington. The discovery of a third
sand well early in the year on the Camp
bell farm, east OF the Brownsville field,
caused something of "a furry. and Butler
operators for time were jubiiant over
new and prolific third sand pool. Some
went SO far as to say that a new rival for
the old Thorn Creek field was waiting to
be punctured by the drill. Subsequent ex-
perimentaL tests proved dismal failures and
the same can be said of all other efforts to
find new pools. In the absence of new
territory the sturdy Butler operator, en-
couraged by the advance in the market,
has turned his attention to the old wells
that stood idle through the period OF de-
preston, and will make q determined effor I
to once more start them to producing
That he should be successful would seem
to be fitting reward for the patience and
endurance he has displayed.
One of the bicycle racers in Madison
Square Garden in New York, last week,
rode 1000 miles in the six days.
A lawyer Of Maysville, N. Y, in
search ofa missing heir, became satisfied
that the man he wanted was somewhere in
Canada, but not knowing where, addressed
a letter to every postoffice in Ontario
and Quebec-nearly 1000 of them in all.
One of the letters reached the addressed
and as his inheritance was more than
100000, he probably won't object to the
item, postage $92, /" in. the lawyers little
bill.
Miss Jennie Winner of Portersville, COM
mltted suicide by hanging on Wednesday
night of last. week. Miss Winner lived
| alone. Since the death of her mother a
year ago she has been very respondent,
| Her body was found hanging in the stair
| way. She had tied clothesline to a raf
| ter, fitted the moose about her neck and
jumped down the stairway.
| One of the create st curiosities of the
| present day is now on exhibition in Schau
& Nast's display window. The attraction
has been for the past few days the subject
of great deal of attention among The
learned men of our city. The curiosity
spoken of is the only specimen of the Sea
Elephant ever captured. This specimen
was captured off the coast of the island of
Ceylon and is worth going many miles tc
see. The attraction is valued at 5000.