Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-09-07
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from cutting. To obv1atle thas
device has been used with some
success in which compressed air is
carried down to the bottom of the
we'll in a small pipe and allowed to
escape through the tubing. Nearly
all the machinery used is portable,
and a 1a-inch casing is put in near
ly to the bottom Of the hole. The
cost of we'll is in the neighbor-
hood of 81 200 The developments
so far do not cover a very large
area, all the efforts to extend the
fields having been thus far unsuc-
cessful. The oil is dark in color
and has a specific gravity of from
o S33 to o.S34, or 38 degrees to 40
degrees Baume. 1t yields a large
amount of illuminating and lubri-
eating oils of good quality, although
most of it has been used for fuel in
part of the state where other fuel
is scarce. Since the first of Janu-
airy, 1898, nearly all of the produc-
ton has been sold to the J. S. Gull
mana Pipe Line, and distributed to
consumers by his pipe line and
storage system.
Jefferson County.-At Sour Lake
there is an oil found of dark green
color; it is very heavy and comes
from a soft disintegrated sand un'
DERIVING limestone boulders. Its
gravity is Tx degrees Baume as it
comes from the wells; it is a good
natural lubricator and is used in a
number of mills in its natural state.
There are three wells in this local
ity capable, it is said, of producing
100 barrels per day. In small
test refinery that was destroyed by
fire in January, 1898, some eight
different grades OF oil were
made of the heavier GRANTEES. No
kerosene was made. but a 80 per
cent. headlight oil was secured, a
valve oil IL degrees gravity and an
engine oil of 22 degrees gravity.
The Gulf Coast Refining company
is now erecting a refinery with a
capacity of IS barrels per day.
Baxter andHardin counties produce
dark, heavy oil in limited guam
tity, used for lubricating purposes
in its natural state. There are a
number o. other places in the state
where dark, heavy, tarry oil and
hitumen are found. At Cline,
Uvalde county. a lime deposit con-
tanning large percentage of btu
men is extracted and peculiar
flexible bitumen is manufactured.
The report describes the show
ing of petroleum in Alaska, as re
Gently surveyed, as follows:
Several companies have located
a large number of mining claims,
which under conditions, include
petroleum in this territory. Along
the coast of Alaska, northwest Of
Sitka, beginning near Cape Yaktar,
which is 500 miles northwest of
Sitka and just west of Mt. ST. Elias,
there are numerous natural springs
of oil and water along the flank Of
the first range of foot hills from a
mile to mile and half back from
the ocean, and extending from rs
miles northwest parallel to the
coast. The range of foot hills,
whose elevation is 600 feet, is cut
through by many small streams,
and along these streams, near the
axis of the range, numerous oil and
water springs exist. Seventy. five
miles further west, along the coast,
between Cape Sucking and Cape
Martin, and not far inland, there are
also springs showing oil and sui
phur water, and still further inland
there are deposits of coal. There
are also some slight shows of oil IS
miles further west on the mainland,
opposite Kachemak Bay, at the
mouth of Cooks inlet. All Of
these rocks are more or less dis.
turbed, and the angles of dip are
from 20 degrees to SO degrees, gen.
orally not less than 80 degrees, and
have a vertical range extending
from the lower cretaceous into the
Tertiary The character of the oil
is similar in a general way to Cali
fornia petroleum and ranges from
dark green to black, and from II
degrees to IS degrees Baume. The
harbors in this section are poor, and
landing is attended with more or
less difficulty. The surrounding
country is a wilderness.
Insane.
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