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Show Ask Andy: First Oil in Pennsylvania Andy sends a complete, set of Comptons Pictured to Verdis Encyclopedia Sullivan, age 13, of La Marque, Texas for her question: Where was oil first discovered In the United StatesT Americas first oil well poured forth its rich treasure on Aug. 28, 1859. Its rickety wooden tower stood near Oil Creek, not far from the sleeply little Pen ns y village of Titusville. This was the first oil well In the United States. But the presence of petroleum or rock oil was discovered long before this. In certain areas, the buried reservoirs of oil seep to the surface. The first settlers in the New World found that the Indians already had discovered petroleum. Soon it was used as a patent medicine cure all. The settlers skimmed the oil from certain creeks, boiled it and sold It as a medicine called Seneca Oil. The settlers soon found that petroleum could be used as a lamp oil. But the flame it gave was smoky and smelly. But there were experimental scientists, even In those days. One of these determined experimenters was Samuel Kier, a druggist of Pittsburgh. He was sure that petroleum could be refined and its smelly, smoky qualities removed to make it suitable as a lamp oil. The result of his and other experiments was kerosene. By 1847, it was known that petroleum could be refined to make both lamp oil and lubricating oil. People saw its value and went hunting for it. But they did not dream of the great part their old Seneca Oil was to play In the dawning Age of Industry. One of the businesses organized to find oil was called the 7 CHORE MASTER STAR GAZER Mill If ' To 20 kAPIL 6 fimtWm 'i 'll TAURUS K APR. 2 MAY 21 Little Relation Exomm Until Social Doytim 9 With 10 Hour MAY 22 FOR ANY SIZE I'll 22 5-- GARDEN gy Direct Drive No Belt BRIGGS 2427 login 33-4-1 & Ov ;gq&47-8M-7 voo AUG. 24 A STRATTON 22 SEPT. 9 9 ASVAW; 41 12 Attorn 13 Review 14 Partner 15 Wherever 16 And 17 Evening 18 It )9 Ought 20 l 21 Thing 22 Th 23 Be 24 Money 25 Carefully 26 To 27 Plane 28 Coutiout 29 Mok 30 To 78 FLOWER OR VEGETABLE An 11 HA5-6- 9 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 StitR 3 4 5 6 7 8 OtMM ) JUNE V 2 Woif 35-44 1 JM ' According lo Iho Stan. develop message for Tuesday, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodioc bir ih sign, 3- - yf By CLAY H POLLAN Your Doily Activity Gut do JH MAR 22 JifW- - V Seneca Oil Co. Oil Creek, Penn., was selected as a likely spot and surrounding property was leased. The idea was to drill for oil which was obviously seeping from underground. Edwin Drake was hired to plan the job. His helpers were Uncle Billy Smith and his two sons who were known experts at drilling brine wells. The old brine well methods, however, did not work. The Smiths idea was to dig a pit down to bed rock, pierce a hole and pump up the fluid. The pits caved in. Drake solved the problem by using a steam engine to drive a drill straight down through the ground. )GooJ V.VA.V.ViW.V. 42 43 44 45 6 47 AS 49 SO 51 , 52 53 54 , 55 56 57 58 59 60 14 jrup Public You Friendly Thot v 61 62 63 64 65 66 And Better Spoil An Youf Bose 67 Bnng 66 In 69 Temporarily 70 A 71 Proportions 72 Vwttng 73 Your 74 Of Often Condition Go It s Cloe Mok It Improv Affectad Only Should Overdoing You n Could. Dealt Inclm To 75 In 76 Smoothly 77 78 79 80 Operation Worrisome The New 61 Through 82 Good 83 important 84 Succeufully 85 Penonol 86 Thing 87 Opportunity 88 Move 69 Post 90 Affoir Be Traveling You Will Or Evening To Carry (Advene ....VYW.4VdVhV .S eM Ncutnl r. .V.V. , i Move by Mayflower Patented "Pick Direct drive world Mor Than Half tillor or built by Chormaite A ingl bocaut th.y'r work f plow, due, borrow . . . proporo. tho ground lb do pat of growth. for planting, furrow, for wod.ng, oult.vata. at any .tog. down to 1Y. Work, ground 11". 22"-- nd 36" wido, dig. ony .Upth Malt, any gord.lt ob a breei. FULL goo. botwMfl narrow raw. "the wife you save may be your own" btl 1 YEAR WARRANTYIt. ' . - FREE ESTIMATES - HADLEY - 'MAYFLOWER-E- Boyd Martin 4-84- V ' 'C.V V 'V V 91 S 7A7.1 rWVW7M9w, 4 |
