STATE GEOLOGIST. 259 
The new company was successful. By January Ist, 1898, 255 per cent. 
in dividends had actually been paid to the stockholders. In September, 
1898, a power for pumping the wells, and costing over $7,000, was erected, 
the contractor taking the product of the wells until it paid for the plant. 
In November, 1899, the property, together with $1,250—the amount re- 
ceived in excess of the cost of the plant—was turned over to the original 
holders. On July 1, 1900, the power was pumping 20 wells, which had a 
daily production of 4o barrels. — 
The first well drilled by this company was on the William Fisher farm 
in northwest quarter section 14, Monroe township, Perry county. The 
Berea was struck at 1,012 feet, but the indications were so unfavorable for 
a paying well that it was not considered advisable to shoot it. However, 
on June 2d, 1892, after waiting nearly a month, the well was shot with 80 
quarts of nitro-glycerine, which had been hauled from Sistersville, W. 
Va. The cost of the shot was $200. The first day following the shooting 
of the well it produced 12 barrels, and a year later was still producing 10 
barrels per day. Following this other wells were drilled in sections 14 
and 15. Inall 25 have been drilled, only 3 of which were dry holes. 
Other companies began work and the territory was rapidly leased 
and tested. Naturally, operations began near the round-house, where oil 
had first been shown to exist. From this as a center the drill moved out 
in all directions unttl the limits of the field had been disclosed. The later 
work has been along the northeast end of the territory, in Morgan county, 
where the oil seems to be shut out by reservoirs of salt-water. During 
the summer of 1900 the valuable pool in the Oakfield district was devel- 
oped, though small wells had been found there several years earlier. 
The principal farms are the Porter, Longstreth, Donnelly, Monahan, Mc- 
Donald and Grannan. The first well was on the Porter farm and was 
finished early in 1900. Its production was 35 barrels the first day. The 
second well was on the Monahan farm. It was completed soon after the 
Porter well and had an initial flow of 45 barrels in 24 hours. The next 
two wells were drilled on the Longstreth farm, and both were fair pro- 
ducers. Early in the spring a well was completed on the Donnelly farm 
and flowed 125 barrels the first day. Other wells on this farm are much 
smaller. ~’Two wells on the Grannan farm began flowing 75 and go bar- 
rels respectively. It is interesting to note that the development of this, 
the richest part of the Corning field, occurred late in the territory’s 
history. 
An important step in the development of the field occurred on August 
13th, 1893, when the Buckeye Pipe Line was completed. Before that the 
oil was transported by tank cars. The oil is brought to the tanks partly by 
gravity and partly by suction, the latter being produced by an 8 horse- 
power gas engine, and is stored in two iron tanks, one of which has a 
capacity of 30,000, and the other of 28,000 barrels. From these tanks the 
