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The Scio Oil & Gas Company. 
Myers & Brown. 
The Allegheny Oil Company. 
Lecompt, Bruner & Company. 
E. H. Jennings, Brothers & Company. 
The Hogue Brothers. 
Bailey & Robinson. 
W. H. Milliken. 
Conotton Valley Oil Company. 
John Miuldren. 
C. R. Mildren & Company. 
Jennings, Groves & Company. 
Nassau Oil Company. 
O’Day Brothers. 
The Ohio Oil Company. 
F. N. Donaldson. 
Boyer & Caldwell. 
Rhodes, Wilson & Reynolds. 
Genesee Oil Company. 
According to the guager for the Buckeye Pipe Line the largest num- 
ber of producing wells in the field was in January, 1900, and numbered 
about 850. The total number of wells drilled in the field is about 1,000. 
Of these perhaps 220 were drilled within the corporation limits, but only 
about 20 of that number are still producing (1901). From a financial 
standpoint nearly all of the village wells were failures owing to their having 
been drilled so close together. A few, however, were very profitable: 
Thus one on the Given lot is reported to have produced $30,000 worth of 
oil. Three were drilled on the college campus, but the royalty derived 
was not large. The average cost of a complete well in the field was about 
$3,000. 
The oil has been purchased and shipped by three companies,—The 
Buckeye Pipe Line, the Sun Oil Line and the National Pipe Line. The 
former was the first to enter the field, having begun pumping in December, 
1898. It has shipped as high as 8,000 barrels in one day, but the average 
has been much less than this. In July, 1901, the average was about 1,100 
barrels per day. The company has 3 tanks, each of 1,200 barrels capacity. 
From these the oil is shipped through two three inch lines, but about 
four miles east of Scio one of these changes to a four inch. These carry 
the oil to Brice, West Virginia, 42 miles distant. The second named 
company entered the field in the spring of 1899, and ships entirely by tank 
cars, not having a line leading from the field. At the height of the pro- 
duction the company shipped 1,500 barrels daily, but in tgor this has de- 
creased to 300 barrels. The oil is sent to Toledo where it is refined. The 
National Pipe Line Company, like the Sun, ships entirely by tank cars, the 
