Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-18
THE LEWIS COUNTY FIELD.

To the Editor of the Register.
WESTON, w. Va, October 16.-There
never has been in West Virginias his
tory more persistent nor pernicious
effort to retard our deelopment than has
been made since the great oil strike of
the Camden well, four miles from Wes-
ton. Some of our local organs, as well
as CORES pOndent for metropolitan pa
pers, have We'd with each other in an
INSCRIPTIONS effort to conceal the truth
in relation to the value of that we'll
The facts were easily obtainable, not
withstanding the efforts of those direct
ly interested to conceal them by plac-
ing guards by night and by day to pre-
ent any one from entering the field in
which the we'll is located. The conduct
of the conspiratoTs has done the COM
munity incalculable injury by keeping
out and driving away capitalists seek
ing investments. Any newspaper man
or correspondent could have seen that
the erection Of tanks with $500 barrel
capacity was completed at the we'll Sat
urday with another not set up with 800
barrels capacity making a total of
4300 barrels, and it is estimated that
the well will have connection with the
Jarvisville wells pipe line finished by
next Wednesday. The first tank was
erected Sunday, October 8, and consev-
alive estimates make the loss before
its erection 1000 barrels. Hence there
has flowed from the Camden WELL
which drilled itself in, from $500 to
5000 barrels of oil since Friday, Octo-
Der 6, to Monday, October 16, and its
owners have made provisions for 500
barrels for the next two days. So it is
apparent, despite reports to the con-
trary, that the Camden well has been
for period of ten days making an
average of about 500 barrels daily.
The Parkersburg Journal SHE'D its
castor in the ring evidently because it
found congenial company, and possibly
for the further purpose of maintaining
its Munchausen reputation, but the
powerful combination with all its re-
cruits will fail, and this section will
ultimatel be developed for the reason
that not only the company which owns
the we'll has sent its agents for dis
lance of thirty odd miles southwest
and all around the we'll leasing all the
territory to be gotten, and those known
to be in closest touch with the well
owners not only have bought at large
prices the royalties in contiguous and
nearby territory, but have made pur-
chases for several miles from the well.
Lewis county farmers are not easily
hoodwinked, and reports of lying cor
respondents or local press well be OF
little avail and the men who are en-
gagged in the nefarious business of sup
pressing the facts for personal gain will
only succeeded in making an exhibition
of their own littleness and be branded
as enemies to the community in which
they live.
The scheme Of the so-called scientific
gentlemen to misrepresent the facts is
too transparent when they are known
to be lettering around and securing the
country with their agents in search OF
Unbiased territory. They have called
the we'll freak, but it is astonishing
how many other freaks are attracted
and held in this section by it. Either
this is true or our county is infested
with a goodly number of the lienal de-
cendants of Annanias. Can it be that
a typographical error properly correct
ed in the Bible would read oil mot
"alr) men are liars.
There are exceptions to prove the
rule. Mr.. Gaily, of the firm of Guffey &
Gaily. frankly admits that if he did not
have confidence in this territory that
they would not have made the large
investments they have.
NJ. S. HOLT.