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The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The oil discoveries in Western Virginia. (search)
discoveries in Western Virginia. The Kanawha region of Virginia, already known to be the richest mineral district in the United States, has given forth a new treasure which seems destined to throw all its others into the back ground. The Parkersburg (Va.) News, in a long article on the new discoveries, notices two extensive land sales last week. One of them was to a company of gentlemen from Baltimore, who paid $80,000 for a tract of land, and the other was to the "Little Kanawha Burningstatements must appear, they are nothing but facts. Other wells will probably be finished, and pumping in a few days, which give full assurance of yielding fully as much as those described above. Nor is the oil region confined to the immediate vicinity referred to. On Hughest River, and on every creek and run in the whole valley of the Little Kanawha, there is an abundance of oil. In the vicinity of Parkersburg, also, and on the creeks above, and below, emptying into the Ohio, oil is found.