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flow of good sulphur water. The second well was bored on the bank of the 

 Wabash River, about one mile west of the first. This work was undertaken 

 by a company expressly for oil. Experienced borers were employed and the 

 record of the strata passed through may be relied on as accurate. A little 

 oil was found, but not enough to justify pumping." 



"A third well was bored by the same company a quarter of a mile east of 

 the first, which passed through the same succession of strata detailed in the 

 section. The black slate was passed through at 1,600 feet; and 25 feet lower 

 down, in limestone, which I refer to the Corniferous, a vein of oil was found 

 which yields twenty-five barrels per daj\" 



These were the first deep wells producing crude petroleum in commercial 

 quantities in the State of Indiana, and were the subject of a paper entitled 

 "On the Oil Wells at Terre Haute," by Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, a noted oil special- 

 ist of Montreal, Canada. This paper he read at the Indianapolis meeting of 

 the American Association in August, 1871, and it is reprinted in part by Cox 

 in his second report. Cox also included a paper entitled "Western Coal Meas- 

 ures and Indiana Coal" which he had read before the same meeting of the 

 Association. 



The final paper in the 1870 report was the first local list of plants published 

 in the State. It was entitled "Manual of the Botany of Jefferson County, 

 by A. H. Young of Hanover College, Ind.". and enumerated with notes 609 

 species representing 315 genera and 87 famiUes. 



Third and Fourth Reports of Cox. 



The third and fourth reports of Cox, treating of the work done in 1871 and 

 1872, were published in one volume in the latter year. His assistants during 

 these years were John Collett, Barnabas C. Hobbs, Prof. R. B. Warder and 

 Dr. Levette. The beginning paragi-aph of the introduction to the volume is 

 as follows: "It gives me pleasure to be able to note the continued prosperity 

 and rapid extension of our mining and manufacturing industries. Districts 

 that were but yesterday covered by a primeval forest, or only broken here 

 and there by the quiet pursuits of the husbandman, have been awakened by 

 the whistle of the locomotive and the puffs of the stationary engine ; coal be- 

 grimed miners tlu"ong the streets of mining villages of a year's growth, and 

 the work of mining and shipping coal is pushed forward with an energy and 

 zeal that is unprecedented in the West, and far outstripping the hopes of the 

 most sanguine utilitarian." 



He states that Perry, Dubois, Pike, Parke, Dearborn, Ohio and Switzer- 

 land Counties were surveyed in detail and preliminary examinations made in 

 eleven other counties, most of which were in northern Indiana. The volume 

 was accompanied by a portfolio of maps of the counties surveyed in detail. 

 These were uncolored, and exhibited the same kind of data as did those of the 

 first and second reports. 



Cox describes a new blast furnace which had been erected near Shoals to 



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