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The Daily Dispatch: March 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], The oil region of Virginia. (search)
120 feet. The average depth is from 115 to 145 feet. Some persons have gone 200 feet without finding oil, but are not discouraged. Some dig on the hill-sides, but most of them in the bottom. I visited every well that was yielding oil. That of Llewellyn & Co. was yielding very rapidly; often it produces one barrel per minute. Think of it! I saw them filling seven barrels at the same time. A friend timed them, and they filled 14 barrels in 15 minutes--i. e., one hundred and forty dollars in aimes it runs spontaneously, at other times it is pumped up. The flat-boats (of which I saw upwards of 100,) take it to Parkersburg, in 24 hours. Day before yesterday 2,000 or 3,000 barrels left the "wells" for that destination. The well of Llewellyn & Co. is much the most productive. There are several others that yield 30 and 40 bbls. per day. Many of the wells are not worked, for want of barrels. If my friends, Messrs. Weston & Co., will bring one of their admirable stave-cutters out he