Dear Sir—Your favor of October 18th to Superintendent N. Moore, asking for the total production by years of the Corning Field, has been referred to me. Below please find the figures of oil received by The Buckeye Pipe Line Company from the Corning Field from August, 1893, to September, 1900:

Part of Year 1893128,918.03Bbls.
Year 1894322,313.71“
Year 1895428,385.03“
Year 1896469,258.78“
Year 1897328,188.11“
Year 1898196,417.75“
Year 1899211,060.22“
January 1st to July 31st, 1900143,314.96“
August, 190026,929.66“
September, 190022,517.67“
Total2,277,303.90 Bbls.

July 31st, 1900, completes the first seven years production and thinking you might prefer to use the even years, I have given you the figures for the year 1900 to July 31st in one lump and the oil taken from that field for the months of August and September separately.

Trusting this will answer your purposes, I remain

Yours truly,
J. R. Campbell, Treasurer.

Leases.—At first the operators paid no bonuses, but gave a royalty of one-eighth of the oil to the land owners—a rate of compensation that has been usually maintained. To this there is one exception worthy of note. When the round-house well showed the existence of oil, and operators began leasing the surrounding territory, Fredrick Weaver, a thrifty German farmer residing a short distance east from the round-house, quietly visited the oil fields of Washington, Pennsylvania, and investigated the methods of leasing oil territory in that field. When he returned home he demanded a royalty of one-fourth the oil and a bonus of $200 for each of the eight wells which it was proposed should be drilled on his farm of eighty acres, and since his territory was regarded as very promising, these rather severe terms were granted. However, after drilling six wells, and the territory not meeting expectations, the contractors complained and Mr. Weaver generously reduced the bonus. More recently a royalty of one-sixth the oil has been received by holders of lands that were deemed especially promising, and bonuses also have been received. The leases usually required that a well be drilled in from thirty to sixty days, but sometimes, especially in the least promising territory, six months were allowed.

That the field was a monopoly for no one is shown by the following list, which includes the chief operators of the district:

Geology of the Region.—The surface of the territory lies in the Lower Productive and Lower Barren coal measures. The highest hills reach up to or extend above the Ames or Crinoidal limestone. In fact along the northeast extremity of the field the hills are capped by the limestones which underlie the Pittsburgh coal. The deepest valley—that of Sunday Creek—cuts through the Middle Kittanning coal, a short distance north of Corning, but at this town the seam named is under cover, while the Upper Freeport coal is at about drainage level.

The succession of strata under ground is shown by the following record kept and furnished the Survey by Mr. G. W. Delong, Superintendent of Schools, Corning. The well is located on lot 154 of the town just named, and the top of the well lies at the base of the Mahoning sandstone: