CUBA OIL FIELD.
IT BEGINS TO BOOM!
Oil's Well at Last.
Some 18 years ago several test wells
for oil were put down at Cuba. These wells were only drilled to about the same depth as were those in the lower Oil Region, and yet nearly every one of them gave a fair showing, of
oil--one of them pumping on an average from three to four barrels per day. The fruitful fields of the "lower Region" and since then the rich developments of the Bradford District, have
kept operators from paying any particular attention towards developing this section, although many sharp-eyed men (knowing speculators) well aware of the oleagineous richness of the territory,
have been quietly securing farms and leases for the purpose of "making a spec" so soon as other oil territory became, or was liable to become exhausted.
The developments at Richburg the present week make it certain that Cuba is to be the great Oil Center of Allegany County.
"And don't you forget it!!"
Besides,
the work of cleaning out the Crocker well, just south of us, in which, after a good stream of oil had been found, the drill was dropped, has already commenced. This well was known
to be a good one, but the Company putting it down simply "played possum", and pretended to abandon it in order to buy large tracts of land which it has already done, paying for some as high as
$60 per acre.
The Richburg well struck the past week is the largest outside of the Bradford district and
knocks the "Wellsville Field" into a cocked hat. A special to The Patriot on Monday last says:
"Our well struck sand at 1,213 feet, Thursday, and shut down. Drilling was resumed and after going twenty-four feet in the sand, the
tools were drawn. Friday afternoon there was from six to seven hundred feet of oil in the hole. Sunday morning it filled up and ran over the top of the casing.
The gas threw the oil as high as the derrick roof. The oil shows thirty-eight and three quarters gravity, dark green in color. The sand appears rich and resembles
that found in portions of the Bradford field. There is an ordinary amount of gas, and a showing of oil better than any yet found in the Wellsville field. The well
is on lot 33, Wirt, ten rods north of the Bolivar line. The result is a surprise to every one, and upsets the theory of a 45 degree line. The Campbell well, a small
producer, is two miles east and one hundred rods south of the Richburg well."
LATER:
The Richburg well was shot on Wednesday, and flowed forty
barrels. This makes it sure for a boomer.
