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The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The oil discoveries in Western Virginia. (search)
surpass in extent and productiveness those of any other section of the United States yet explored.--While the work of development of this region is but just commenced, the few wells completed, but six in number, already give a larger yield of oil than the hundreds which have been sunk in Pennsylvania; and will probably never be surpassed except by other wells in the same neighborhood. The presence of Petroleum oil in this region has been known for years. A deposit of it, found on Hughes' River, a few feet below the surface, in a vein of sand, has for years furnished the main ingredient of powerful liniments. It has also been found coming out of clefts in the rocks on almost every tributary of the Little Kanawha, and especially in the neighborhood of Burning Spring, on this river, (owned by the Rathbones,) has been gathered in considerable quantities from off the surface of the water. The Burning Springs, which abound, proceeding from stores of gas, sufficient, perhaps; to li