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A New Oil strike.

--We learn that, at what is known as the McConaghy and Jones well, on the E. Pettay farm, near Burning Springs, West Virginia, on the 9th instant, a splendid strike was made at the depth of seven hundred and twenty feet, and is now pumping and flowing at the rate of three hundred barrels per day.--Wheeling Register.

We hope to hear of some "oil strikes" in this region before long. Do our people really believe that there is no oil here ? Let them bore for it. It is a more valuable product than tobacco.

The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 19, 1865. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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