The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1865-03-17
THE NALEDONlAN n.
Corru at tie oil Regions.

hadn't come.
There is plenty of oil-and that is all,
except lots Of people.
made for "Snaky Rum the most
likely place for oil.
They call these places Runs, because
everybody who is after oil runs here
Every man you meet Is the President,
Director. or Engineer of IA petroleum COM
pany.
The natives. who are white people, and
resemble country folks, live 10y selling land
and grcenhorns.
They have system in both transac-
tons. They double the price of land
every morning.
If Won know ANYBODY who has got a
few vacant lots that he wants to sell, tell
him to bring them out here
The folks are so busy looking for OIL
they haven't time to build houses, and
everybody Is afraid to put up Il house tor
fear that he might cover an oil well.
Consequently the hotels are a little
crowded,
The Muggins Hotel, where l put up, is
much 30.
Muyglns, the proprietor, is the most &C
commodating man you ever saw. "A city
railroad conductor isn't circumstance to
Inn.
He has only got six beds in the house,
but he is always ready to take in every
body
He took me in.
Also two hundred more petroleum pill
grims.
The sleeping accommodations are va
riorlS. We 90 to bed in platoons.
When the first platoon get asleep they
are carefully taken out of bed and hung
over a clothes-linc The second platoon
90 through the same process until every
body is provided for.
l'rcterring to sleep alone, slept on the
manilc-piece, with the coal-scuttle for a
pillow.
As | observed land is precious out here.
bought lot, ten inches by four, for
three hundred thousand dollars, and COM
menced operations.
The next thing is to commence boring.
You want Il sharp bore A public
lecturer won't do. Neither will u skating
gimlei.
took Il brace and bit and went in
Got down about seven hundred thousand
feet into the bowels of the land, when |
came to an impediment.
Found that | had struck the pre-Ada-
mite rock, of the osilied strata of the
Siulian formation
This is geology, and you perhaps won't
understand it. but will explain it all in
the paper to the Historical Society | am
about writing
Got candle and went down to see
about it.
found Il big Megathereum about six
hundred feet long, and nine hundred wide
III a capital state Of preservation
GOT him out and shall send him along
by express.
Went on boring through forty thou
sand feet OF sandstone. Here encounter
ed 4 strange smell of sulphur, which
alarmed the native who sold me the land
and to ease his conscience he gave me half
the money back, and wanted me to stop
boring.
Told him was bound to keep on until
| struck lie, or came out on the other side
OF creation.
Bored on. Went through about sixty
thousand feet more, when suddenly the
brace and bit went in, and there was a
grand report like that made by Butler
powder-boat which didn't blow up Fort
Fisher
Things were slightly confused for a
time. A section of Pennsylvania went
up, and | went up with it. gue>s!I must
have come down again, as the next idea
| had, was finding myself comfortably
hung over the clothes-line at the Muggins
Hotel.
An investigation into the matter show
ed that had struck through into gas
factory in China, which had exploded at
both ends Of the bore. killing half mil
lion Chinese
The casualties on our side were con.
fined to one native and small dog.
The Mcgathereum had also disappear.
ed; probably scared off by the explosion
| haven't given up yet. The folks here
are very encouraging; they will stick to a
man as long rs he has 4; cent left, and
never knew Muggins to turn a man out OF
his hotel who had the means to pay his bill
A kind-hearted Chap offered me another
piece of land. the size of a stove-plate,
within a mile and a half of seven hun.
dred barrel well, for the reasonable figure
OF half million and two-thirls of the oil
| had concluded that boring for oil i
not 50 profitable as bleeding the public. l
shall start an oil company on more liberal
terms than any yet offered
| shall be prepared to guarantee any
thing The capital will be million dol
lars. divided into two million shares at
fifty cents each.
Dividends Of two hundred per cent will
be paid weekly, in addition to which each
subscriber will be entitled to season
ticket for LAM gan's Ball, new hat, a
farm in Minnesota, and ton Of coal at
market prices.
The ".>caly Run" Petroleum Company
will be the biggest thing in oil in the mar.
ket
l am coming on to arrange the business
aS soon us nv friends remit mo finds