Show striking oil in a garbou PA about two months igo ago IIii ll ohn solin it blacksmith living iving la in street berf ot this city wild wan in lu liia garden artir a leavy heavy ra rain ill As an lie turned up ill tho the eurth curth he noticed notie eil that little of ornda crude potro Is leani um formed in in the made by opale ha dug dag a pit four feet deep it filled up with oil to such an extent that ha dipped out five barrels fall the oil wits was ol of excellent quality and sold bold lna his five barrels to the ibo octave oil week before last haalin dug dag another 11 well in in big hi garden it responded respond od with a yield of two loar barreau rols tin an hour uhe the well attracted groat great attention it produced proda aad eighty barrels bur roli and then ceased to how flow the llie excitement over tho the novel oil territory di died I 1 out oat soon afterward on monday last tile ilia now newt spread through the city that jachn had opened another well in hia bid garden aid that it WM waid yielding at the rato rate of c thirty six six barrels a day looked to tho the scene of tho the now oil opera Lioni tho the well noil wits was located in the a ou thweat corner of lill potato patch with a largo large tin hand pump th tho 0 owner was taking tailing out of tho the holt boo two barrels ol of ou oil on an hour ilia previous well lad hinl also started again from that one of hachans sons bons was taking inking oil at tho the rate of twenty barrels a day immediately following this strike of abo t he lucky looby blacksmith a grout great demand for or leade of adjoining burdene such an oil had bad never buen been heard ol of before without capital cap itil and with no tools but a shovel au all OVe operator could sink oink a well wall end and strike the tha 11 blind in hall an hour tle right to dig on tour four foot feet of it a mans gaudan worth and one ofle quarter of tho the oil roi for three days and andade t streets have boon been thronged thron geil ged with excited spectators ol of tho the now operation in oil production mad and parties anxious to got a piece of the territory on tuesday night theodore avory who hua has a coal yard adjoining Hool lud rardon garden put down a well at the depth of 0 four our foot he be struck oil ail diio yield was kaaa a barrel an hour ile iio liaa lail put down tour four more wells since the ilya wells were yesterday yielding eight barrels an hour tho of the hacha and avery ventures lol to a wide extension of this territory A vacant lot on washington street southeast from Hael lits was waa yesterday tho the scene ot of active operations juhree arce producing wells wera vero put down the tha roat rest wore wora dusters da itera capt pickering went to under ft a sheil shad near the tha buffalo Buff iilo rail bull road track south of Hae laus lie ile dug to a depth of eight feet and got a wit well good lor for ton tea barrels a day two wells wore put down on the ground of 0 the octto ite refinery finery at five foet feet oil was found one on of the wells wella is pumping twenty alvo barrels a tiny day the tha mckeown garden east of the tha refinery nery wits was leased by J ji P thomas win mckenzie mud andja J M Irin tou thomas took the northern half of the garden lie he got two five barrel wells ol of excellent groon green oil the other parties struck oil bat it was of a rod hue and had the appear anco ance of being mixed with tar la in the garden along the catt side eatlo of washington street several wells 11 bamo bamo in as aa good bat tho the oil was ol of an interior inferior quality inanity ina lity all the property along oil creek between washington and F franklin streets has bai been leased by A J Kt affett he ha will develop it i on a large i re abalo the original haehn territory maintains its yield and is being further farther developed ve vo iselin has made a trench all round his garden and one through the center into these tho the oil collects rapidly the operator is putting up tanks to receive his bis oil as there is ia a great scarcity in ia barrels IIa Ha ohna ellas garden denissow isnow is now yielding barrels a day lie ile expects to increase it to the oil is worth it at the refineries a barrel tle price of one barrel defrays all t the a expense of pa putting t ng down a well operations pe rations are carried carrie on oa day a and night i glit tatt at part art of the city is lighted up all night nig t by the th flaming torches of 0 the oil men en I 1 the he weird scene is witnessed itly by hundreds of people there aro are no indications of any do clina chins in the yield of thin thid oil and hoehn tha lucky discoverer of the field la is laying away not less leas than a ly clay as aa clear profit there are ara many theories in regard to this unheard of presence of ef petroleum jetro petroleum leum in large larga quantities so BO near tho 0 surface one is that the oil is the leakage of faults and pipe lines which has sunk into the 0 girth arth until it reached reao heil tho the gravelly deposit in is now found in pools another Is ia that bat this deposit has been f creed up from the true petroleum tr sand stratum by somo some unknown agency sad caught and retained in ia tho the stratum elero it now lies |