Show petroleum v 1 l 7 wi recent t discoveries of large deposa deposits of f oleum ferta terra oil of the earth have been made in the northwestern parts of pennsylvania and in virginia this substance has been long known in one form or another petroleum petros abaian rock oil oil of the earth naphtha beneka oil alph asphaltum altum bitumen carbon oil etc are but different names for substantially ly the same thing in the form of naphtha it is limpid and volatile iii in that of asphaltum often solid enough to break with a fracture and to be employed as a paving pavin for streets the ancient egypti egypto egyptians ans ins used it in embalming under the name of numia and the babylonians employed it in place of mortar morta as a cement for their bricks hitherto athas it has been chiefly obtained in the region of the dead sea and in persia italy sicily and some of th eWest elVest india islands it is essentially carbon and hydrogen having from eighty to ninety per cent of carbon or sometimes the two in nearly equal proportions deposits of this mineral have long iong on been known to exist in the united sta states tes but tut un lii lil recently it has been teen put to little or no use except in small quantities for inadi medicinal vicinal I 1 purposes formerly it was much peddled about the country in small bottles and sold at the shops as a specific for burns scalds rheumatism etc under the name of beneka oil the oil springs in cattaraugus Cattar augus county on the indian reservation were known to the whites half a century ago or more and in morses morsels gazetteer published nearly forty years ago we find it stated that on the spring from which oil creek now so famous takes its rise floats an oil of which many gallons may be collected in a day itis it is added that this oil has valuable medicinal properties it was not we believe until further down the same water on the alleghany allegheny Alleg hany river of which oil creek is a branch at the village of tarentum Taren tum or freeport one of our modern miracles occurred that much attention was turned to the subject or the value of the article suspected at that point an old salt well without known cause underwent a sudden transformation and commenced tb throwing rowin up a substance which was not brine for seventeen years this well had bad behaved as an honest well should and contributed in bountiful supplies of sait salt to the substance an and d wealth of its owners now its pure waters came up alloyed with a greasy brown matter chica threatened to them valueless greatly annoyed the proprietors submitted to the unrequited toil of exhaust exhausting ing inz this foreign substance from the brine but it steadily increased upon them thus far they had thrown it away as useless now it occurred to them subject to it to an analysis and ascertain its quality the result of this and the experiments which followed reconciled them to the vitiation of their water for in the new substance without detriment to the brine briney they ascertained they had bad received another gift of at least equal value it proved to be petroleum of very great purity the produce of this well was introduced into in 0 this city about two years ago tinder under the name after distillation of carbon oil and the demand for it soon outrun the supply though the yield is by no means so great as that of other wells since opened on oil creek none of them equal it in purity and absence abs ence of color the produce is 19 from one ne hundred u d ed and fifty to two hundred gallons gillons per day it is used only for illuminating tj large arge purposes deposits of rock oil are also known to exist in canada west and from the abundance of the supply in these several localities it would appear probable that immense vats of this liquid wealth underlie large laree tracts of country north and south of lake erie extending according to indications already noted from a point between lagest lake st clair and lake huron to the neighborhood of pittsburg the yield of the wells which are obtained by boring is truly astonishing one of these on old creek is reported at four hundred gallons daily another at five hundred another at eight hundred and the mcclintock well at from one thousand to twelve hundred gallons g a per day the quality of the oil varies T the he produce of one well is thin and fine best fitted for burning that of another thick and dense suiting 0 it to the lubrication of machinery the smell of this oil is pungent and no process has yet been discovered by which it can be removed in some cases indeed tha the odor is go so powerful as to render it almost unendurable the oil obtained in the neighborhood of enniskillen canada west is of this character there is a large tract of land in that vicinity in various parts of which the soil itself is saturated with the oil the proprietor has only to dl dig pits when they fill without further trouble troubled and continue to fill as the liquid i d is removed he offers to furnish two thousand usand gallons per day if it he can find a market the difficulty in the way of this thia however evera is the extreme pungency of the article samples of the oil having been consigned to a house in this city for reasons patent they got it off their hands as soon as possible the purchaser shipped a barrel of it to illinois and in due time was advised by his consignee that it could neither be sold nor returned that nobody would buy it and no transportation line receive it and that the arrival of the oil among them was furnishing the town with its chief subject of excitement exchange punch says that garibaldi is an irishman and was born in cork or Con and after his father was christened richard murphy a name which be he has now contracted to dick |