The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-14
FOREsTvILLE STRIKES OIL.
An Important Discovery Made There
 This Week.

An Important Discovery Made There
 This Week,
 Bristol, March 13,-The discovery or unmistakable evidences of petroleum or rock oil in Stafford district this week is an interesting piece of news. The multi-colored scum of pools and sur face water in the guetters on the west side of Stafford avenue for half a mile south of the Stafford schoolhouse is mo-
 ticeable and experts who have been
 consulted say that there can be no
 doubt of the presence of petroleum in
 the water and mud examined
 Yesterday morning MT. Taylor and
 Mr Barnard took samples of the water
 and mud to State Cchemist Riggs, Of
 Hartford. He immediately admitted
 that petroleum oil was present in the
 samples, but said that he would not
 care to make an analysis before coming
 to Forestville and making a thorough
 examination of the locality from when they were taken, He regarded the claim that oil had been discovered Ill
 New England with skepticisn
 The land on which oil has been found belongs to Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor and IS
 located on Stafford avenue. near the Stafford district schoolhouse, and north
 from the village of Forestville, in Bris- tol about three-quarters Of a mile me farm in question i$ a small enc that lor- merIv was owned by Thomas McDef- mott, now a resident of Hartford, and has been in the pession of the Taylofs
 a little less than two years. E AleXls TayIor. a son of Mrs Elizabeth ray
 Tor. who. with his wife, lives with ms
 father and mother, had his attention called Saturday to the depth Of mud
 about the letter box in front of his l place by Free Rural Delivery Carrier T l., Thomas. On Sunday morning MT
 Taylor dug trench to drain off the water in front of the letter box. He noticed that the water had dirty l scummy appearance, and this so fixed his attention that be took up some or the water in his hand and smelled 1t, and tc his great surprise he round that it emitted the odor of petroleum. The next test was that of fire and he found that it would burn,
 MT Taylor's joy when he reallzed the possibilities that are underground m 1 his front yard can be imagined Mills l H. Barnard, a neighbor and the well | known manufacturer of White ROCK | ice cream, has interested himself in the matter and will help the Taylors 1 to find out what they have got, MT l Barnard and Mr Taylor were in Brls- | to "Wednesday afternoon and they had | with them jar of mud scooped from l the hole in the ground, and the odor of petroleum was quite marked. ihey | also had a bottle of water on which | the oil was floating Here the odor | was quite strong and there was the | taste of oil The Taylor farm is small l one and goes into the tax list at about 1 $1 GOO.
 The Taylor farm is bounded on one 1 side by the highway and the adjoining 1 land owners are Willard s. Warriner l and Timothy Collins. It comes out | now that the color of the water ooz- | ing out of this mud hole has been | known to the residents of that section 1 for the last quarter of century L' ! K. Seymour, of Hartford, a friend of 1 Mir. Taylor and dealer in oil stocks ] has been to Forestville and has eX- | amined the output, and he nronounces | it Illuminating oil of the same grade
 as that found in Pennsylvania. It is 1 the purpose of Mr. Barnard and MT. | Taylor to send to Pennsylvania for an expert on oil and oil wells, and upon
 his decision will rest their future oper- l ations.
 | It can be stated that the stream con- {: tinues to flow as it has done all these years when the ground was wet. When
 the Taylors bought the place in May
 1900, it was run down and it was their
 intention to go to work at once to fix l it up. but about that time Henry M. Taylor who was veteran of the Six
 teenth regiment C. ", was stricken
 with paralysis and the support of MT
 and Mrs. Taylor devolved on their son.
 F. Alexis Taylor, who had a family of | his own, and he has had his hands full
 since that time On Saturday Mrs. Fay
 Tor presented him with an eleven-pound | boy
 l On Sunday he discovered oil on the l place, and on Tuesday the senate com