Show oil was medicine when america was first being settled explorers found petroleum oozing out of 0 the ground or floating on the surface of water in many places but unfamiliar with wilh its properties they considered it a nuisance however indians bere observed rubbing their bodies with ith it claiming the oils peeped pepped pep ped them up so the settlers used it too according to most sources of information the pioneers soaked up oil from the bound ground in blankets wrung out the blankets into hito suitable containers and sold oil as seneca oil indian oil etc a cure all then in 1806 men boring wells for salt water in western estern virginia found much petr along with the bine causing them a great deal of they did extract some of the oil from the brine through a settling process selling the product for medicine and apparently no one thought of using oil as a lubricant for a long time afterward mineral hill exploration co of boise idaho is investigating the possibility of an open pit uranium mining operation on 18 claim claims aich hie the firm located in elmora elmor county near dixie idaho bulldozers arc are being used to determine the quantity and duality quality of the uranium miner a liz a tion |