New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-28
STRIKING OIL.
THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE PETRo-
I.EUM INDUSTRY RECALLED.
HOW A COLLEGE PROFESSORS INVESTIGATION
LED To IT'S development - PRIMITIVE
METHODS or SINKING wELLs-oIL
AT 10 CENTS 4 BARREL.

METHODS or SINklNH NHhi' Oi'
AT 10 CENTS BARREL.
The situation IN the oil country today recalls
many scenes Of thirty years ago. The lethargy
and Indifference in which the region mas s'umper'o
for ten years more "a thrown on ana 'ne peop''
are awakening with the same teVe''Sh "eS'e -
Operate" that seized the excited crowds surSing
into Western Pennsylvania In the painV DAYS o'
'65 when oil was worth from s. 10 $40 p1'r'''
once more leases are sought In every d'fecu'h,
forests cat away. timbers hewn DERRICK no''' ''''
and skeleton towers erected 10 h''5"t o' S'N'.'E
five fcot between sunrise aud sunset. Then the ur"
begins its work. and tho earth Is pierced TO Varl-
ous dauths tU the oil-bear!ng sand Is reached
There Is little territory within the boundary %
the oil region which has not been ""Dcdt'u'
and localities ara thoroughly tested. Mnch o' 'ue
now DEVELOPMENT Will be- In cleaning out o'd "'IS
and starting up old machinery abah"o"ei wiz" ''''
bottom feI ont of prices for crude pelfol'"'i
Tho itfro VILLAGE Of T.:usvile. in Northwestern
Pennsylvania was a town of few hundred nhap-
nan,s with little commercial Importance aS'"e ''o'',
its NUMBERING interests before lN' y SA"H'I' an
a general store" both owned by Brewer watson
&. co. were the all-lmporant features Oh '"' """
til the frs; oil-wcl made III" region famous anu
tho tov.n the Mecca ~ enterprise. Oipit' near 'he
s,y,ulu had Welded small quantity OF o'' am
the product had been gathered by soaking uP INC
oil I'm blankets. Local interest was beginning 10
! str and naturally the question arose cannot
mating and ubricating purposes. as Vel as 'o''''
In the summer Of is5i Dr. r. 10. Brewer the S"''''r
member "' INC nm '' - t,,r. This pr,.
visited "''h" III ,r, ho1 visit
f"esor crosby, 'l '''-'' ''''" ,.,.', rr,io 70
the s4v.r,U he observed the o-pits ana in sung
manner osls.l tho question of Dr. Brewer: Nhat
can L., 70 go. rich out Herr Tie reply was:
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