The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-22
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Faith" he said, and Isn't IL about time for
Y before / dlei / don't have to work any more.
and my wife and propose to take life easy the
man who puts in his, time IN the shade watching
the bumpers at work on the wells on his farm,
and los ss nlaSs, h Tbe oS T,.h fcs AZURE Of s'F fSa ol b thst
ness no doesn't like is the nitro-glycerine wagons.
~ sn npoy,d because Il is isown as McCSboviiio. ~
fhe widow Mary Ryan owned, n ninoty-acre
r come from from Royalties Is Is $780, week. i" Her three
daughters are counted among the most eligible
1, IT, ,9 9sc yf thsyy s IL " @lS Down, y iS1% Secured Or cS socS,
sized bonus and has a nice income has nothing
=" The poueherty lot OF forty acros was of such
small Importance that II was sold for taxes. a
couple Of years ago: There rs I'll row over the
year il has produced. 100000 worth of oil. 4
EIs sST ago n SSGTsss o SHisr0' by T"' tho "P moSt tn an H Gs
mother.iniow owned q ifty.oero "trip Of
Of high ign S Sif' back, from tho Ch!pngnGs
valley. It was regarded as of the belt. The
s sor sl Sos but pnts found SSnd rD no takers Ster i" Mrs vi Bu GRtESs
mother was tascn Rr II al AND wc Sho aS went OF there 9 yi.i to
n nnd his h %cth MrI SR.xti Induced MSed 6im and Sn another q Dis,si
son.in.law. O'Brien by name. to drill a test well
on the tract; Il was hard work work, because they
many mar "1 miss iSiia that they located The arst
well. 1t started off at 100 barrels a day. Other
fered BHuikicsy & oBrien $500 for their icasc
to-day they would probably laugh Ct you; It's
DmS St Inc r w!s Intu If sn0 Mr. Bu * @"i IS f fore a
man OF the lease, and works every, day,
Coln"srovest sheridan ( CO. rich mon, was owned
by Jack King, a sw%itchman employed by the
Erie RAILROAD ut Salamanca; It camH to him
valley. Most OF the timber had been cut AWAY.
md he rented a part of i for a pasture, realizing
was completed King, who Is n gray. haired man,
asked the railroad company fer a lay.off and
income from his royalties is 1900 a week and
will mean a fortune to him in five years. He
lives at Salamanca and is planning to build a
Ill VII am getting ha tired ,S Of bonnIsst t mss said !. tho to t the
Who wfh.,S Works cSery day "a and I have not enjoyed
being rich. Money don't make me as contonted
as always dreamed It would and you need not
p. ii. Fbavitt of Bradford. after drilling seven
dry holes and getting heartily sick OF wildcat
ting, secured a iease Of 100 acres OF the McCaf
frey farm last fall. Three weeks after the lease
his wells started Of. at 200 barrels. a day, and
wells are located In q swamp almost inaccessible
from the main road. The water Is two feet deep
by a plank sidewalk built on spiles driven into
the mud.
pool to tho west. in the town OF Red House.
Doughorty s. Wellman struck II gas well that is
fSss e n slmGsi 1000 Ss 10000 oSS feet Wp Z DAY th Snd ss %nS, MSs
topped the tools were blown out Of the hole; and
the roar of escaping gas s could d be *. heard $, srndat two TS
cities supplied BY Il: Donsghsfi{ $ sn W Stal,I N
the tract AS fast as they are needed to keep up
the pressure, Their income from the two gas
month. Other test wells have been drilled in
cream OF the pool Is confined to the
Valley and surrounding hills.
, The DevoniHn 9il Company has several tRon'
I ley, and is the heaviest operator. 1t has 100
men on its pay roll. The South Penn. a branch
; 90 Soo" s n,anoE produe,ion n's In November there h
were thirty strings OF tolls running in the
, Held; nov there are not more than SIX, owing ia
} that IL Is no longer necessary to drill wells tC
D hold lcnses and there are no line fights in prog
ress. There are hundreds of locations for good
) wells to be drilled, besides the possibility Of lind
ing a paving sand at a lower depth. When The
t The lease that has created more talk than oil
. OF the others Is owned by the Seneca Oil Com
: pany. composed OF Salamanca men, who have
Q ratified lease Of 1000 acres OF the Seneca Indian
{ reservation. This Is the lease that Senator Quay
! tried so hard to have annufied last spring. a:
q soon as the Chipmunk developments headed 10
5 leases. 1t was claimed that the Indians had nj
h right to lease land as individuals; that the min
; S & ms snd in OIL IF Fif Shs s SsIonss Sat to ,h Vas sq hsls at n,
1 council house. and several offers were made fol-
the oil right Of a portion OF the reservation
:. cepted. 1t was claimed that fraud secured tn
. lease, and an investigation, was ordered. TIL
charge was not proved, and after Il hard light
in which Congressman Hooker chnmpione'
= the cause OF the Seneca Company. the lease wa
Y ratified by the Government. The trouble arcs
d from the fact that there were two faction
among the red men. Bradford parties. throug!
n Shongo, u Seneca brave. secured n lense OF a pol
tion OF tho reservation and put up a DERRICK. ]
!; was no sooner completed than a party or brave
g mollshed the derrick and stood guard for tw
weeks on the disputed ground and kept the ri
pany viii make a fortune out Of the lease. i
Q already has loi lproducing wells. Its lease run
v for Inin %n iRn e! yesss, Ah1 T fse1 Indians II roSm rs fS{ 40
% royalty. The bonus paid by the seneca Con
t pany was small, and It made a ten strike whe
d Chipmunk is the richest shallow pool in tn
k world. The cost of completing u well is abou
n $500. and some wells have paid out in thre
days. 1t usually takes a week to complete
n Well. In West Virginia. for instance, the well
:; conH 1890 t fSsf d snd c fsf"sfe o.d 5S5e' G mG p
], wells are shot with forty quarts OF nitr'
IS so Wells have been drilled and It has not bee
i g for fort s%eS'n and sIi'' other oper"tor. h" lave sunk i
. savings OF years In a string OF dry holes. TIL
n. % bright W fsIlo Ss,'f but the 'I poor devil Who ri risEed a
1t and lost 1t finds no one willing to listen to h
o. business that makes 1t fascinating.
% as n Klondike strike. Their meadows nre dotte
III with derricks and pumping rods stretch from Il
,e power houses to the wells In every directto
O. meadows into pasture lots. but they are tired
10 farming and do not complaint In Eye Even the 81
j. punlpcd every day in the week. All day lor
70 you hear the squeak Of the sucker rods, the HI
n. Of escaping stoam. the steady chuck. ehnck
n creek to- The wells back on tho hills. and II
10 weird shrek OF tho "berkers" fastened to u
Y, exhaust pipe on the engines that tell tho pump
y. at the further end OF tho lease that the wells
IN started up arc pumping. At night the hills {
ls along the valley are lighted up by gas torch
or that make tho tall dorricks, appear like sentins
.y Keeping a vigil over the winding valley far |
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