[Oil] [Pennsylvania]

THE DALZELL PETROLEUM COMPANY. Capital Stock Two Million Dollars, Divided into Two Hundred Thousand Shares, Par Value, $10 each.

Philadelphia: J. B. Chandler, Pr., 306 & 308 Chesnut Street, [Girard Building], 1864. 8vo. 19 cm. 25 pp., [3]. Disbound. Stitched sheets. Venango County, Pennsylvania was the center of oil production in the 1860s. The first successful commercial oil well in the United States was completed by E.L. Drake near Titusville, Pennsylvania, 28 August 1859. OCLC: One copy at PA Hist. and Mus. Comn. Lib. Item #64156

Price: $325.00