Feb., 1901] 
Bownocker — The Corning Fields. 
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The Buckeye Pipe Line Company — Macksburg Division. 
Oil City, Pennsylvania, October 25th, 1900. 
J. A. Bownocker, Esq., Columbus, Ohio: 
Dear Sir — Your favor of October 18th to Superintendent N. Moore, 
asking for the total production by years of the Corning Field, has been 
referred to me. Below please find the figures of oil received by The 
Buckeye Pipe Line Company from the Corning Field from August, 
1893, to September, 1900: 
Part of Year 1893 128,918.03 Bbls. 
Year 1894 322,313.71 “ 
Year 1895.., 428,385.03 “ 
Year 1896 469,258.78 “ 
Year 1897 328,188.11 “ 
Year 1898 196,417.75 “ 
Year 1899 211,060.22 “ 
January 1st to July 31st, 1900.. 143,314.96 “ 
August, 1900 26,929.66 11 
September, 1900 22,517.67 “ 
Total 2,277,303.90 Bbls. 
July 31st, 1900, completes the first seven years production and 
thinking you might prefer to use the even years, I have given you 
the figures for the year 1900 to July 31st in one lump and the oil 
taken from that field for the months of August and September sepa- 
rately. 
Trusting this will answer your purposes, I remain 
Yours truly, 
J. R. Campbell, Treasurer. 
Leases. — At first the operators paid no bonuses, but gave a 
royalty of one-eighth of the oil to the land owners — a rate of com- 
pensation that has been usually maintained. To this there is one 
exception worthy of note. When the round-house well showed the 
existence of oil, and operators began leasing the surrounding 
territory, Fredrick Weaver, a thrifty German farmer residing a 
short distance east from the round-house, quietly visited the oil 
fields of Washington, Pennsylvania, and investigated the methods 
of leasing oil territory in that field. When he returned home he 
demanded a royalty of one-fourth the oil and a bonus of $200 for each 
of the eight wells which it was proposed should be drilled on his 
farm of eighty acres, and since his territory was regarded as very 
promising, these rather severe terms were granted. However, after 
drilling six wells, and the territory not meeting expectations, the 
contractors complained and Mr. Weaver generously reduced the 
bonus. More recently a royalty of one-sixth the oil has been re- 
ceived by holders of lands that were deemed especially promising.. 
