A Greene county correspondence furnishes the following interesting description of the Maple farm, upon which are situated several amber oil wells.

The Petroleum of Pennsylvania ranks now almost with coal and iron among the great natural resources of our state. Oil creek is the world’s wonder. And beyond Oil creek, in the southwestern corner of the State. Bordering on West Virginia, right in the heart of the great Appalachian bituminous coal field. Another oil region is coming to light, which is of great promise. And will very probably soon be the theatre of remarkable commercial enterprise.

The evidences of the oil-bearing character of Greene County land are striking along the line of Dunkard creek. But about two miles from the mouth of the creek, there is the richest concentration of the bituminous fluid. This occurs on Maple farm, where oil was first obtained last Spring. Now several wells are giving forth their product.

There is slack water navigation via the Monongahela to Pittsburgh, where the oil finds a ready market. And is in great favor. On the Maple farm, the borings reveal oil at three different depths – at about 70 feet, 300 feet and 600 feet. At the last depth the argillaceous sandstone is reached, where the yield is most prolific.

Here is the locality of what is known as the Amber oil. As this oil comes from the earth it is of remarkable purity, beautiful in color and almost transparent. It loses less than 7% in refining. Not a single well sunk upon the Maple farm has failed to yield oil. In no other locality has such uniform success attended the operators. The Wiley well, the Pioneer well, the St. Clair well, the Kramer and Johnston wells will be classed among the most regular producing wells of the country.

A gentleman residing at Uniontown purchased some time since, an interest in the Pioneer well for $125, and is now offered $3,500 for the same. This oil locality will take its status in the future rather from the regularity of its production than the existence of extraordinary flowing wells, such as have made Oil Creek famous and may ultimately make the Clarion River region equally noteworthy. Borings producing from 40 to 200 barrels per day will be the standard here. Of such wells, alternately flowing or being pumped, the number is likely to be large. We are gratified in being able to record such another evidence of the wealth beneath the soil of our grand old State.