Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-04-13
SssPEvINs IN THE OIL BUSINESS.

Reader, was you ever sycbologiaedY-that lie,
did you ever submit to the maDipulatiops OF q
psychological professor, and find yourself bound
hand and foot in the power Of bis Will If not
YOU cannot appreciate the oil feyer-you do not
know what it to be two Of you beside yourself
having your practical self, your real senses, over
powered by the ideal, the artificial, as Lincoln
says. Spevins felt oily on the brain, and resol-
we'd 10 know more OF the prodigious excitement
which is preparing one third of our citizens for
sunatic uEylums. lie made a break for a locality
where oil is known to ~exist-where it spouted
from the earth at times in quantities sufficient to
turn q say mill, according to the, stories OF spec
ulators aud wholesale and retail dealers in oil
sites. Following the example of most Of those
who visit the scene Of action for the purpose OF
adding 70 their stock of inforuation, he extended
his inquiries. in regard to the yield of the product
the. fac ilities for obtaining it, &C., to every en-
gineer, we'll owner, lease dealer, and pumper he
met, and received explicit, pointed replies to
every question. s -5aO..a
Forty barrels watts full l-pumped it all this
morning down 400 feeti-cost S6O0i-will sell
for $40, 600 ?" Spevins assembled the vat, Sure
enough the monster tub was b%rimming full with
the liquid grease. He calculates that Az barrels
at $40 per barre is worth $1,000 coed morn
insss ww~ork--vould be a fool tc sell for $4,000
$Another well reached-a half dozen, q dozen
ofthem, but no oil. Some had a smell and others
a shO,u. sus the essential ingredient itself had o
vet failed to make its app~earance-"Butit wa
snre to come !-sites never failed thersabouts!-
20 a littlc.deeper, ream out the hole, and the con
tents of the cauldron bensath would bubble u
throughshe bore at an astonishing ratei Moul
not take 500 per cent. on the dollar for the in
vestmeatl" s&s7W 4 sszzsa5 tsys ego
In the next locality visited. the ground is pei
forated with as many holes as q skylight after
pelting bail storm. Engines are pufiug,driils ar
raised and go down with a chug, chug, and th
ground is smeared with a slippery, greasy Aui
which locks and tastes and smells like oil. Th
men employed on the premises have the a.
pearance Of persons who might be supposed to |
engaged in the milling, iimekiln tending, ar
coal heasipg business-sooty, sandy and past
Here a we'll is in peglecs there another is aba
doned, and the next ono is pumping. Oil barre
and barrels of oil are stacked op, and maehiner
timber and cabins are scattered around promise
ously. Every person is excited'to q fever heat !
oil is exchange and small change and IL do
cost nobody a cent! sgis = sasaaTs In
-Speyins can't stand it. The psychological
fuencs is too great. lie invests and proceeds
penetrate the earth, in company with others,
The depth Q: 500 feet. lie is rich thinks
!~il make imhmediate arrangemsnts, for tbs 8
disposal of his wealth. Will buy land and set
his friends IN the oil business-buy e house q
iot for the widow Jones, and settle an -annu
upon hef-wil donate a lar ge) per cent. Of bis
eome,to religious and. charitable purposes ger
ally-and purchase that beautiful mansion
grounds he has long coveted, where he will
tire and spend the balance of his days in ease
quiatasssIA'A y
Matters progress. Day after day aud hour a
hour the work goes on. The we'll gets deel
and at last reaches the depth determined NJ
Bukthete is no oil, no shoto, no hsmeH Per'
siops are suggested, and a spbnaripe- explo
apparatus proposed. Deferred hope sickens,
the mother Of invention proves inadequate TO
emergency, for alas bnOtbiHg but water can
sucked out Of thai hole. q,
&He next, recapilolates bis affairs. Takes
account Of stock, and finds his liabilitiee two
bred per cent. greater than be believed coul
the faS., and asse,s pretty nearly played
Blu. il will no,Edo to- ~acknowiedss these res
BY putting on a courageous look and assumi
prospsroasuir som 0 one may come along who
be green enough 70 buy him outI-or at all eve
who will agree to paint both heads Of the bar
snebas had several oHers. butt Is 'wOndetfal
naciopss of BIS possession, though secretly imp
edswith The idea shat ne has not got a thing
enough to keep. Finally d~ispOspg Of bis Tot
at a fair price, be abandons the business, au'
ssgissst hat althoO Oh many pessGDs ARE ga
rich outofibs speculation there are hendre'
O,hsSs. who will be made Pset bgit-Erie
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