Register (Newspaper) - February 2, 1865, Oil City, Pennsylvania Morning o I In OV 11 of 2 23 iB 75 7 00 15 Ol KOft P 00 JO 00 1300 Ifl 00 00 flO to oo 8000 iroin to Jusuro ii U of tmy eat of will In foV loss to hi the people 1 have just from t you not long of a O who has moio than ho can nnd not might on and 1 to er will a for tho purpose of Shooting quail having a good hhd should ar HVQ but little HU said inserting the neck of my flask his mid tipping H vigorously On this he recovered such as they and wo wont the depot to a sort of matlo a pipe mid patched The youthful Very again aboard cause there Whs arida had to occupy a most Wretched sort o which p 61 with of and few i Ono with very beard oh lile rest bis face to a fell into conversation I ho going to Lilybell Company of course Not am go ing to look o 1 and centre ino your me if I say that favored may J ask you to iii vest r him In the two said you comb just the man to show to do it hurry up Ji I sells land sold an mit a dollar do You go as wort millions to tote you I looked Then on Tho old o gifs 1 you dollar a day unt The when fro an us as far aa J I But I want to going io a i ipa icr Ive sot 7fly Git drove off at a Bald f to get trudged M nigged boy on a b and The 1 Can you toll my Wp f hire wagon to talto us to Slab V V the little has ii few shares way a monthly of hundred dol lars so you sco that hi two can your I but ever kear of groat Cau Kerosene of honor tobo five hun and a m of ono struck lie arent going tor iUil for In him anything at two ho recovered he check from his check arid handed it to me with a have that Cap said his husky with pie idea Fill the check milt you by the it J T o I 1 1 i ft Of t oh the Suffice can buy anything to Cole is not more opulent than This it is to bia Jt will tell s caut do except ho had butter dp Ing tho ing th known ri which tion would to the Us forced in somp the oil do beside any he Is very foolish to but Logic borrowed from Do follow my argument who witnessed my regarded me with wonder and admiration two and placed I gave fifteen and ho praised tho tho As I trust the riml taite pay lor his 86 When Meek ho wald ho would have o begged him but In He me by being and plead aft his Tho idea of Colo driven by AVe him about nnd ho old an air of that he had to visit his properly in whero liad got In ho invited me to the Journey with profess edly for companys but really to havo some person o take care of As I had killed pretty near all the game on and as I had to ho new Cali fornia I agreed to and set Little Colo wanted lo tuko four trunks with but I set my foot down flat that ho To reach you havo to go to Phila tike a railroad forty transfer to a sleoin hoat fin ecu miles ride milra in a and then walk or hire a farm for nn unknown and indefinite distance lo a and and when there are no and where you have o trust to luck for accommodations of any By dwelling upon the of H I persuaded my little man to abandon the idea of carrying evening suita and and such restricting him lo few changes of u traveling a ami hta He felt very but ne to my superior experience and AVe left ttt Tho cars were and my charge was sleepy and I allowed him lo while I wont forward to tho smoking there to hold sweet nnd solemn communion with my old meerschaum tho big ono with the of arms on presented me by Iho grand duke of for my magnan In his the Mar garet von and a capacious After nearly hourn of tho ran in which minds lovo to a poked his head Into lie and hundred dollars The gentleman with tlie black beard opened his mouth u little and one and How said are you cider iiia tiie 8uro there n heavy farm under apples want to hire your to go an froin which oum ai t and person ao the non Garden on with on the third take me Our return was even more 1 look back my pedestrian tour from garce to in the with sentiment of rp There I had nothing than to trouble Here I was beset by spec faet that tho oil near th narrow crevices or fissured is easily petroleum be forced bods In Which the oil found iu great salt nnd wells been In operation there tbi of Tr boring salt tjio greatest was in selecting localities when the water was not impregnated subs Unco which the salt as a this operations and me with Seen runs Into that 1 own feet tho York TO compress the whole of IV Into a newspaper article ment than any yet performed by ry I will In as possi the more interesting of the leading my personal during a two months tour Oi which we of the present day cal Nearly years ago shit on peer in afc the depth Tin greasy as ho termed spurt ed the land ma laud and profoundly with the of 111 a to left the little dreaming that lie running from than golf mines of than the diamond mines All out for slation I f myself ran Into lie carriage dragged him Inlo ho Ho rubbed his eyes and was ft 1 Arc wo at lonAi Woli the oil He got up mid went The landed at Managa a place which retains ono of those sweet Indian names that so adorn our map and As nearly as 1 could make in tho oold uncertain morning Managa iu a own consisting of a a a grog shop and u liberly and inhabited by a little girl with her thumb done up in a This stood in front of the grog shop as our melancholy procession straggled slowly and asked if wo were bound for the lie We responded and she culled somebody known as who soon appeared with an instrument of torture he designated tho I fall the world were such a singe as Timon and would havo been right in hating 1 bundled Cole neck and and as many more as the thing would hold followed Then came several hours of unmitigated the only oasis in that desert of travel being a fifteen minute breakfast on lit cable bacon and unnatural at a wayside Tho lie was reached at last nnd all our ing tho who regarded me Tho stage fiom this and we found ourselves reduced to the walking the rest of the way or a My gave out at this I thought ho was going o I was prepared for this and assumed tho utmost de gree of parental authority over The natural dignity and superiority for which I am everywhere out and my companion was a lump of clay in tho potters Wo walked for n short distance an tho muddy road towards our and came to H farm An aged wan smoking a pipe at the 1 Come my good said hurry up and your and you two south of much yon glf drawled the old Well i dont mind giving threw dol dollar I Yog know who I l Up sighed tho and lot us be Harness up asked biting a fresh Why your to bo And be said the I haint got no horses You didnt say mithin about H was we had Cole turned palo and eat down on a Mf it was a paid 1 should give it As It I Leaving my exhausted companion to his green and I started forth with the determination of and in iio course of found a pair of Colo brightened at tho sight of though they looked like uncommonly worn outdoor mats on and paid heir owner much money after a lengthy discussion 1 did not AVe got into tho is said You said Colo Wholl bring ho wagon back Ive bought the whole con cern This which sounded like an approximation to was only the fruit of I gathered up the started my sorry nnd we jolted and bumped away over tho starveling country of millionaires to the classic settlement of AVe arrived in that strange locality early In the sought for a but in Tile man who kept the a of hemlock with some high beaches for and low benches for where you could get had salt pork and worso broad and but if you had money us wo could find accommodations at the Peters farm and showed us the way was a largo man with a whisky and a wart on eye 1 we might roll our wagon under his and bo would put some straw on it us to sloop Is that what you call accommoda tions down this way of New slept hat ar way when ho said and I you can put up with the WUM delivered In conclusive If It worn a IU and calculated to exhaust tho We and accepted ho which had been hon ored by occupancy with out further tho readily OH wo found that there had been rolled down hill out of The stranger dipped up a little of Iho smelt examined poked about the spring with and expressed Has any ono else looked at No said Lilybell Garden but some heavy capitalists on tho cars hist night Bald Kaeh property doesnt lay around loose a great you The visitor and his enter tainer marched him o draw up the necessary papers before the oil ho had poured troubled waters should run oil and leave the waters lo trouble I related this little incident to the President of the Hook of Ageo Cloft for Me Oil and he pooh Has a common and almost threadbare I afterwards look a walk with AVo visited a hillside was loose and As a natural of the In In ho quantity of oil that the surface from salt the people in locali ties where it gradually dls H contained The will years substance of sold throughout the country as a remedy of tho and bearing the names and Uu and It the to HIS sni of from one where the soil covered with a scanty Ho punched his cane Into the ground and left a hole with pure What do you think of that land o start a company on said I to buy an acre or two at Ids own Youd make a belter thing of It if you bought my said Mow so lie showed me hat what appeared a heavy malacca with a gold head and a stool a of thin having a valve iu which opened by Tho cane being filed with left a lit tic puddle of It wherever It way struck sharply Into the only use lint on very rich buy said ho mostly as Hat as and bite at anything If they see it with their own I much Improved with the inge of this contrivance for turning an honest and menially decided not to buy any hind or T should to start a company U pays 1 wish to use your widely circulated in which to announce my great Consolidated Di rect and Oil Hoglon road n joint stock t shares now ready at Ivb dollars This ridiculous has been fixed upon In order that ho greatest number of persons may bo said the President of tho read this to him that wont body that you must have land to build a road and that land out hero coHta than any rond can drive too My railroad H to ho built on ono of which U an oil for lubricating nnd prop a knowledge of the ex tent of recently been known in tills has in reality known ami used to some extent In every running back almost lo the In Egypt petroleum was used for me purposes nearly four thousand years and oil springs in that In part of the lost two ship goes of the crude oil were transported to lo be but the process of refining not being the was Under the name of Sicilian people of used what is as purposes of and In 1 here is a spring of which the people apply to a like use at tho present In Asia tho oil has boon known to and has been used to a limited extent forages and In a largo quantity has been annually con during several hundred Kven in this country is by no now was well known to tho before America was and was used for medi cinal The early settlers of Western and other dis where oil springs now used rook as they called for various collect Ing It by skim ml ng the oil on tho top of tho water as it accumulated from tho In memoranda of his visit lo du now during tin ami war with the Colo Washington mentions ho existence of oil springs In localities whore wells nro now In But neither ho Indians nor the early settlors know anything of tho vast de posits In ho bed of the do not al ways and regard to the for mation of natural caus es which produce there is considera ble diversity of The most ra tional and tho one entertained by the most eminent is bin The formation of the North American Iho great upheaval which threw water nnd discovered tho deposited Holds of marshy grass and seaweed In tho bods where Is now This the became with layers ap In Tho action of tho ve VHf i i and suit water cowl cou tho nor could It drive salt water In for ho hardening of tho wind Inlo rock out oir AH A the Iho This miraculous ply Had hnt it wa calculated o either or when taken nobody will now de The apparently ply of the oil nt attracted lie attention of nnd In 1858 ils and uses more generally A few he crude oil were exported o whore it was and Its commercial Importance began to bo un Yankee enterprise having been attracted to the the natu ral result A of refi ning was he illuminating nnd lubricating uses petroleum were nnd the reign of Tho existence of oil beds having been and Yankee enterprise having attracted Liu next question that naturally o determine where to sink a well for It was soon discovered hat there was something of a lottery in striking Geologists and other scientific who embarked in the oil carried out heir in hut wore not always The larger class who locked to hoOil had no faith accordingly bored at Tho class who are generally he and still rely tho lous witch hazel Those men profess to tell where of oil may bo by of mile The more sen sible manner of localities fov oil wells is to boro where the geological formation is like thai where good well havo At sinking oil wells Is a a man stands one In twenty of drawing a prize Is The process of boring Iho oil well very A consisting of four upright timbers or IU foot apart and by cross Is erected directly over the spot selected for Tills derrick usually from 10 lo feet ami Is made ve ry stable iu order to support tho boring A steam six or eight horse power fa now used for he work of although many wells of not very great depth have been by An iron inches in Is driven doyn to tho first of Where this Is found at a considerable froht ho lie pipe Is Inserted In that ft driven then IH to U at the top his IH in urh driven oud so ou till the rook ID j Tho drill Is then Introduced Into down to tho tho Iroil rod hy tho of dt Iho top AS KA through tho Thd drill In and 19 1 to slender bud with a la connected by means of It with great ina by clamps let this a well of liv in depth may bo by the old two As the last and tho Ing up to tlie a followed by a mixture of and the oil Is by the salt and separated bo hereafter is the great the finding the petroleum spurt froin tho well is a the been Hioky tq strike a lowing lie now to dp butto stand self grow fabulously rich hp hay only tp and ilj flowing tho of does not expect The flow oj tor and petroleum fore excepting in very and tho to be the oil when jg fixed at ascertain from the surface within In order to prevent the water rushing A or valved piston is inserted and this being attached to the enK the work of pumping The old method of pumping oil is on the same general principle of water and requires no a new soon bo generally rwo tubes are In the a powerful the breed down one of of the forced up the other in n steady The by this is more steady and of greater line than by the pumping hud t has been torn ft ny veils that had failed to yield oil in ld The alt As it reaches his mixture Is carried by conduits wooden ises to the surface of tho water and V into wq rude 6il before the As before there is banco in a a dozen that be borer will strike and ho proportion of wells that give a permanent even when Ibr bo estimated iu a There aro hundreds of alon Oil hat at gave an abundant supply of yet today they are as dry as a And in the Mecca oil region of three or year he cent of there is not at the present time a single well Is much more and not one In o of those that at one time gave groat pro misty ta now tho last a number of piny ed out use the term in use by ingenious and now Ing ho work Upon them AB an of may bo In this ad well as to si and determination oil following may ho mentioned A tv obtained tho Fernet on This well had already been tried by several practical and was pronounced Tho ond wont to wlU to tl Aft Instance of which given to A at
