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the well produced three thousand barrels in the first twenty-four 
hours. The price of oil rose about this time from four to thirteen 
dollars a barrel, and the total production of this one well was over 
four millions of dollars. In less than two years, the four thou- 
sand dollars, which represented the cost of the lease and well, was 
repaid one thousand times. One million dollars of this sum went 
to the family of the poor teamster, he having died shortly after 
his phenomenal strike. Thirteen additional wells were drilled 
on the Farrell tract, and one hundred fortunes were the result. 
At one time the income from the first well amounted to thirty- 
nine thousand dollars each day. 
In 1861, William Phillips drilled a well on the Tarr farm 
that was called “ The Albino,” which held the record for longev- 
ity, as it produced oil for twenty-seven years, and stopped its flow 
on the night that James Tarr, the owner of the farm died. “ The 
Albino” produced over one million barrels of oil, some of which 
sold from three dollars to thirteen dollars a barrel. 
In this connection permit me to tell you about a well that C. 
K. O’Hara drilled on the Silas Richardson farm on Sugar Run, 
Pa., in which I carried a quarter interest in the well completed. 
O’Hara started the well in the fall of 1881, and things went 
from bad to worse, and when money became scarce he went to 
work on the well himself. They had a series of streaks of bad 
luck, and were obliged to pull the casing fifteen or twenty times 
before they got below the fresh water. Then they had fishing 
jobs, and they came often, and in bad places, till the money was 
all gone; then he hung the boys for their wages as long as he 
could, and one after another stopped work until he was left 
entirely alone. Let me say right here that afterward every man 
received the money due him. O'Hara lost heavily, his last dollar 
was buried in that worthless hole, while he had conceived the idea 
that it might be worth a million if he could only get it down. He 
pawned his overcoat and some books in Bradford and got a little 
grub and went to work to try and get the well down alone. He 
had no money to buy coal, so he chopped wood and carried it on 
his back to fire the boiler, and thus he worked night and day. It’s 
a pretty hard thing for one man to do the work of two. He be- 
