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Show F00L1SHJRACTO. jie Children of Culture Taught the Art of Lovemaking Instead of Venerationi THEEE TOTJNS LADIES OP HEEVE. juried After Twenty-Five Tears-MUs James' Twenty-Six Cameras BfotesofNews. Very few people are cognizant even Is western Pennsylvania of the rapidity of development in the petroleum business busi-ness from the time, thirty-seven years K0 when it waa known as Seneca oil. Active operations began in 1858, when Col. Drake, of New Haven, ?ae employed em-ployed to sink an artesian well forBis-jell forBis-jell & Eveleth, who had leased the Titus-rille Titus-rille oil springs in 1854 from Brewer, Osteon & Co., paying them $5,000 for a jinety-nine year lease. A few years before the land Had been jfjded to a man named Chase for a cow. At first Bissell & Eveleth had trenches dng, which tilled with water and oil, ,nd this was pumped into vats. The well drilled by Drake struck oil at a depth of 691 feet. It September it pumped forty barrels; a day, which sold it 50 cents a gallon. If began to hurt the coal oil distilleries which made oil from shale and cannel coal. Operations spread down Oil creek, and In December, 1859, a well was struck at the Buchanan farm, near Bouseville, but it was a small one. Mr. Harper states that the first crude oil delivered in Pittsburg Pitts-burg was from the Albion well, on the Allegheny river, owned by Phillips, Frew Co. This well made fifty barrels a day. The oil sold at 80 cents a gallon, with the provision that the barrels be returned. The machinery, supplies and men necessary to drill the well were shipped in the old canal packet Crystal Palace. WHEN WELUJ MULTIPLIED. In 1860 the petroleum trade began to be recognized as a business worth something some-thing more than curious mention, but its magnitude had not Impressed itself, for the people rated production of crude in gallons and not in barrels. There were no oil exchanges to rouse public attention. at-tention. Some big wells made their appearance, ap-pearance, but not many. The Hamil-ton-McClintock, two miles above Oil City, started off at sixty gallons a minute, min-ute, and was worth 83 cents a gallon at the wells. The Economites began to take in shekels at Tidioute, and refineries began to spring np in various places. Crude sold in this city at 60 cents a gallon. Royalty to land owners, now ranging from one-eighth to one-fourth delivered in pipe lines, then ranged from one-fourth one-fourth to three-fourths, and the oil was famished to the land owner in iron hooped barrels, which ranged in price from $3.50 to 3.25 each. This arrangement arrange-ment bankrupted some operators in 1862, when the price of crude dropped to 10 cents a barrel, and they allowed many thousands of barrels to flow into Oil creek and down the Allegheny river. Aa Senator Ingalls might say, their iridescent irides-cent dreams of wealth were speedily dissipated. In September three-quarters of the oil in barrels' furnished by the operators was paid for the lease of a lot seventy-five feet front at Titusville. In 1861 the greatest wells ever struck were brought in on Oil creek. One in Butler county, on the Marshall farm, eome years ago made a larger flow at the outset, but it did not hold out long. The breaking out of the rebellion and consequent conse-quent panic prostrated petroleum business busi-ness in the early part of the year, but a revival of the industry took place during dur-ing the summer as the prospect began to grow for increased nses for oil. In August there were 800 wells between Oil City and Titusville. In September the Phillips No. 2, on the Tarr farm, was etruck. Its first day's production was 4,000 barrels. The Empire was also flowing flow-ing 2,500 a day. The oil was so plenty that wells were plugged, when they could be thus restrained, but many thousands of barrels were allowed to run into the creek, and the Allegheny river as covered with oil for many miles below be-low Franklin. GROWTH IN 1862. The Woodford well on the Tarr farm Jras struck in December and made 3,000 barrels a day. This well ruined the Phillips No. 2, and in turn was ruined, jhs water was not cased oil in those Bays, and when the tubing was drawn t the Phillips the Woodford began flowing flow-ing b. s. The same trouble developed at nt time on the upper end of the Blood inn. It is said the boring of the Wood-wdwell Wood-wdwell was instigated by pure hog-SMy.with hog-SMy.with intent to ruin the Phillips "0. 2. The attempt was successful, but didn't pay the owners of the Wooded. Wood-ed. The Coquette was also one of the f :'d time spouters of great renown. She owned by Dr. Egbert, who now does business at 96 Fourth avenue, this city. t "he year 1862 was more memorable ; trade agitation regarding oil than wrge wells. The market in this ttuntry broke down this year, though a allon of refined cost in this citv as much Js a barrel of crude does today. The 'M of hauling was immense, and pipe projects began to take shape. The teamsters and their friends in the f Gantry were a powerful party, and "ey opposed the pipe line proposition, lnd some lines were destroyed in places a& -there were riots. Congress proposed " wy a tax of five cents a gallon on ;nide, more than twice what it sells for and ten cents a gallon on refined, lnd meetings of producers were held to Potest. Titusville was then the center "r the producers. The cost of sending 1 barrel of oil to New York was $7.45, "A steau-boats charged $3 a barrel for '.Jing it from Oil City to Pittsburg, -mde ranged in price this year from 10 :ets in January to $3.25 per barrel in -Member at wells. Some people were nedand others made colossal fortunes feby, but the Standard hadn't been m. and the surplus was only 100,000 'Seisin October. Pittsburg Dispatch, |