Show 9 EARLY CARLY USE PET 11 tho the oil 01 rs by the I 1 in daa allina 1 in A r in a diary 1 kept ce pt brone by one oj of the surveyors rs eais abw in antho tile barvey urve ol of the che ii 11 laud land land companas comp anys purchase at the very beginning bf of this century an entry occurs to the effect that near the head waters of the allegheny river in pennsylvania was a spring of water w ater from which when conducted into shallow pools would collect quantities of ou oil this the indians collected and used for unknown generations accord lm to the american register the indians had bad held this spring in high veneration believing it was a direct gift from t great spirit they dried the oil by exposure to the sun and made an ointment that they used in mixing their war paint as well as for medical purposes this ointment was the vaseline for the present day in its crude state for the oil skimmed from the spring was crude petroleum tr the oil spring and a plot of ground one mile square were given to the indians as a reservation and is so held at the present time being known as the oil sprint spring rr rit raton |