Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1861-04-19
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= Oil DID 'WlAGe2,tsstT~aaEr

Oil uts V1hcei,t's Green. -
The oil fever has taken such fresh hold
upon so many of our friends up the Creek.
. and SUCH wonderful stories are daily broug chit
down to town, that anxious to develop their
truth. we ordered horse and buggy. and
started for the Theatre of excitement. on
| a prospecting tour, early last Monday. !
Taxing the valley we FIRST came to the old
r salt well at Vanvoorhis' Mil. There we
, found Superintendent Rath bone and bis as.
sistants splashipg up to their knees in fine
article Of oil, rSorth37 cents per gallon --
| They say tn oil is; very good. and thew
could make fair living at it, but Mott Up
pieton has raised the price of barrels and
| they can't afford to save. il this year. We
understand that Fir. Depn offers to lease
them ten acres of ground to raise pumpkins
on; the seed was Brought from California
by Hud Williams, who says they will grow
large enough to hold FIVE barrels. 1t is in.
tended to grow these enormous pumpkins
1-binding them with hickory poles and bra.
cling them inside with oak saplipgs to keep
them from warping or splitting.
AT Blythe's We found Tom B, W.
Fl. s. and Joe. at work. and they were
having first rate luck; Eight feet from the
surface they struck asyein of first quality of
Cincinnati lard, worth at the mine IA cents
a poa,id. They have taken out 20 barrels
a day forsfour weeks, are satisfied; don't
want to sell. This company is bound to
| make money. 4
At Colvin's'Fe found all well, snd times
prosperous. Twenty-Five feet under ground
they struck o Yein Of wintergreen hair OIL
which yieked well. They also found few
pockets of pomatnm, and a thin vein of
moustachel cosmetic; not profitable to work,
though some Of. the girls in the Deighoor-
hood hsve preserved some fine specimens of
crystaliEed pomatufn in quarts. Are short
of bari elsa fine chance for "a good cooper.
At Reeds Mill tho principal found has
been taliow 1t is found at the depth of
two thousand feet, mixed with mica, brown
stone. and white marble The process of
melting taliow is interesting, but we have
not time to describe it. There is general q.
ly about 70 per cent of pure tallow
AT Snyder's lanyard they are putting
down we'll which promises finely. A little
Bnet is found occasionally in thin deposits,
and seine fine specimens of whales bIubbey
and red precipitate ointment have beeu dis
covered here. ,A. y s +
Sam H is working fine vein of
fresh butter. This valuable mineral is found
IN great quantities in combination with lard
rock, dripping stone, and red hair granite;
it is washed with cradle aud long tom, and
10 some instances worked with a quartz
crusher and sluice stopesn n :
:, At Frank Il we foundthem busy IN
'ffroFrng Eel that gave. better appearance
than any one on the creek-and it was whis-
pered aro6hd that the boys had surface in
dications of sausage meat, with strong hopes
of athick layer of Vandemark's Patent
Fence, r. xRtt. 80
! They don't want to SELL. >"oi
AT ithlow's blacksmith shopwa great
crowd collected to hear Sam L tell a..
bout the progress ;of his we'll Sam had come
there to get his horse shod,i and said at six
feet he had tapped a vein of crotin oil as big
rs gimlet; at thlfteeh' feet he encountered
a layer OF soft soap; at fourteen feet he
struck a vein of CASTOR oil. discharging a
barrel an hour at fourteen and half feet
he found a t.talnable nugget of Wilson's
Pills, amal! pocket of oil of cinnamon, and
2 creyice that yielded ninety hogshcads of
pure spermaceti; and then at eighty 1.-TWO feet
depth*ihey struck lard, hywhich they knew
that butter was near5 after cutting through
six feet of>solidI leaf lard, they were reward
ed by striking butter. as :, -
g We stopped for dinner at. John W.
and he,took us out to see. huge cave on
bis farm, from the top of which hung, like
icicles, millions of mould candles, six to the
pound. {
a. Joe G., has struck splendid hole of
apples, and is bringing them up wish sand
pump-fifteen bushels by the hour The SOON
hopes to reach the bottom, whore there are
indications of first class article of crab ci-
der. ~ j
We then went down to Joe F.. and
up the hill to the Baptist Church, and then
down towards w. E. B. Here wa
saw a soap grease bog, and the hill so slim,
perry with the little rivulets of oil oozing.
out, that man might turn back his coat
tails, sit down, and slide down the hill two.
miles and half, without friction enough to
make his pantaloons need patch.
Stopped III to see our good oldr friend
AuO-, W III udu SLIu u vein OF 1Q0 cas-
tor oil. and the boys were out on the farm
bunting for tree that bore ready made
glass bottles, with the corks in and gilt ed
ged labels on. T.. a.. i.
We came on down to the river, past Sam
K--77- -, who followed at US, as we pass.
ed his house, that he had discovered the hill
to be solid roekcandy. and wanted to know
if we would like TO- lease half an acre for ona
million dollags. Told him we hadp't the
change along with US. SO we logged along
home, and took down these imperfect notes
from memory. We may have emitted some
thinggs-but not many.
The FIRST SEcEss1oN1sr.-T first dis
union speech ever made in the United States
House Of Representatives was by Josiah
Quineys Of Mass, in regard to the Lou
islana enabling act. January IA, 1911:
IL am compelled to declare it as NV de-,
llberate sopinian, that if this bill passes. the
bopda OF this Union are virtually dissolved:
that the States which compose it are free
from their moral obligations. and ,tbat 40 :,