Photogallery-Allegany Oil Field - Allegany County, NY

Above photo labeled "Triangle #1; Drilled by O. P. Taylor; Photo from Jennie Taylor Riggs; June 12, 1879." (Grand-daughter of O. P. Taylor) Photo is property of Thelma Rogers Genealogical & Historical Society, Wellsville NY.

Seated: JIM GARDNER (MY DAD), Jim SEXTON (?), & EITHER BENNIE WILCOX OR BOB PRICE; BACK ROW: BILL GARDNER (MY UNCLE), (EITHER) BENNIE WILCOX OR BOB PRICE, GERALD MONAHAN (NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR WHEN I LIVED ON SECOND STREET IN BOLIVAR) I THINK THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN AT BRADLEY OIL FIELD THE DATE ON THE BACK OF THE PICTURE WAS OCT. 8,1946 AND NAMES ABOVE WERE ON THE BACK OF PICTURE Submitted by James M. Gardner	May, 1951 Photo Employees of Empire Gas & Fuel and Bradley Producing Corp. (From Wellsville Daily Reporter, "Yesteryears".) Kneeling, L-R: M. Phillipson, Murray Metcalf, Roger Lewis, Art Madden, Mike Cook, Jim Wasson, Manley Ackerman, Irv Nickerson, Stew Boring, Harvey Ballard, Glenn Pensyl and Dow Stannard; Sitting: Chas Hobart, Mary Gould, Vera Hastings, Ella Lanpher, Mary Bishop, Marie Graves, Adaie Gustafen, Joan Williams, Lois Flurschutz, Marian Burrows, Martha Gordon, Jean Tower, Pat Williams, Shirley Case and George Holbrook; Third Row: John Bradley, Harold Schen, Lee Wright, Paul Drake, Frank Jensen, Chas Major, Regal Perry, Karney Cochran, Tex Young, Joe Herman, Aug Herman, John Arnold, Ed McAuslos, Jim Care, Harold Bartlett, A.H. Stevens, and Julius Quick; Last Row: Cary Rogers, Primo Pace, Chas Fuller, Jim Burgett, Harold Wilkins, Joe Kozuh, Fay Thompson, Pat Ludden, Pete Harder, SCP, Felix Lippman, Clare Wandover, Buster Bradley, Ray Wells and Harry Webber.	The gear drive used to pull the rodlines from power house to oilwell. From Dick Fitch Collection	Half breed engine in an oil field power house. From Dick Fitch Collection

The "hook & eye" system used to hook and unhook rod lines from the power house From Dick Fitch Collection	Power house along Yeager Hill Road, Town of Scio. From Dick Fitch Collection	The Eccentrics used to pull rod lines from well. From Dick Fitch Collection	Power house along route 417 East of Allentown and across from the end of Drum Road. From Dick Fitch Collection

Artesian well beside route 417 east of Kossuth. From Dick Fitch Collection	A jumping jack oil well jack used for pumping oil from ground. From Dick Fitch Collection	An Oklahoma jack used to pump oil from ground...one of most popular style jacks in the Allegany region. From Dick Fitch Collection	One method used to support rod lines. From Dick Fitch Collection

A well along Route 417 near Vosburg and sawmill. This well was left standing "high and dry" when the roadway was built sometime in late 1940s/early 1950s. It now is not pumped and most of the equipment is missing. From Dick Fitch Collection	Stuffing box and piping at oil well head. From Dick Fitch Collection	Next 11 pictures are of Terry Collins lease in Allentown. This lease has been pumped for many years. I remember jumping over the rod lines when traveling from my home on Phillips Hill road to the Drum Road where my cousins lived. From Dick Fitch Collection	Terry shown hooking on or off a rod line. This simple chore was one of the many dangerous tasks on an oil lease...many fingers lost. From Dick Fitch Collection

A circle eye allowing either direction change of rod line or two wells to be pumped from one hook. I can't see what Terry uses for an engine, but, the flywheel is running on the jack shaft which turns the flat belt to the gear. From Dick Fitch Collection	Simply the power house. From Dick Fitch Collection	The gear inside and a separator outside. From Dick Fitch Collection	Every oil storage tank is given a number by the refinery....#3237 Terry hopes will be filled very quick! From Dick Fitch Collection

Lower power house on the McDermott/Taylor lease at east edge of Bolivar Village. My Dad sat many hours in one of those chairs waiting for wells to "pump off". rt. Photo from Dick Fitch	Tripods set up to support rod lines. My Dad built these during the 1970s and 1980s. rt. Photo from Dick Fitch	Another view of lower power house. The power was an early (1800s) McEwen Bros. Engine built in Wellsville. Dad converted it to electric by pulling one flywheel and using the shaft to drive the flat belt. Dick Fitch photo.	Some of the many hooks and eyes from lower power. Dick Fitch photo.

A "post tree" lever used to pump multiple wells from one rod line off the power. You could hook wells on and off from this easier than from the power direct. Dick Fitch photo.	Photo shared by Mickey Baker. “Drilling was done by Harder & Mitchell Company. Drillers were Pendleton Brothers, Sandy & Lloyd.” Top Right is Joe O’Donnell & Leo O’Donnell is bottom right. Others who worked on the rig are ______Shoemaker and Harlan Hile. Wildcat, blew for 15 days; Crandall Farm-Independence. Photographer, Donald Heintzelman-Olean NY