248 CONDITION OF THE OIL WELLS OF ENNISKILLEN. 
9. About twenty yards from the flowing well marked I, a second 
bore was made in the rock to a greater depth by seven feet than the 
first well, without finding oil. 
3. In another case, the rock was bored about fifty feet from a good 
flowing well, and twenty-five feet deeper, without success. 
4. But perhaps the most singular case is the following :—Some 
‘time after the “Shaw” well flowed so successfully, a second party 
bored the rock to the same depth about one hundred yards from it, 
and found a copious discharge of oil, but this second well had the 
immediate effect of reducing very materially the flow from the, 
“‘Shaw ”? well. When either was plugged up, the other yielded a 
full discharge ; but when both were allowed to flow, each yielded 
only a partial supply. A third party, owning a small oil lot between 
the two wells, commenced boring on a line drawn from the one to 
the other, at the distance of about thirty yards from the “Shaw” 
well; he naturally expected to rob both wells, whilst their owners 
(who by this time had formed a cOpartnership) had every reason to 
fear his certain success. All parties, however, were doomed to disap- 
pointment, as the third well proved an utter failure, although the 
rock was bored to a much greater depth than the other two wells. 
I may mention, that although traces of petroleum have been 
found at several places beyond the immediate neighbourhood of the 
village of Oil Springs, viz.. at Bothwell, at Tilsonburgh, and at 
other points within a circle of perhaps ten or fifteen miles; yet, 
with one single exception, 1 believe no flowing well has been struck 
beyond the limited area shewn on the sketch. The exception 
referred to is at Petrolea, on Lot 14 in 18th Concession, Enniskillen, 
and about six miles from Oil Springs village. The rock is here 
bored to a depth of three hundred feet—five hundred and sixty-three 
feet under the surface of the ground—and a constant stream of salt 
water and oil is discharged, equal to, it is estimated, 1,200 barrels 
per day ; and of this yield, about one per cent., or twelve barrels 
per day, is found to be petroleum. 
There are, at the present time, a great number of refineries in 
the neighbourhood of the springs; I had no means of ascertaining 
the exact number, but I was told that, reckoning large and small, 
‘they could not number much fewer than one hundred. The capacity 
of these refineries is estimated to be equal to 1,500 barrels of crude 
oil per day, whilst the total yield ofthe springs is said to be not much 
more than four hundred barrels. 
