The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-20
CORY mt the Oil Regions.

PENNSYLVANIA is good sized State and
il takes some time to get here.
When you do get here you wish you
hadn't come. -,
There is plenty of oil-and that is all
except lots of people.
Imade for "Snaky run" the most likely
place for oil.
They call these places runs, because
everybody who is after oil runs here.
Every man Won meet is the President,
Director or Engineer of petroleum COM
pany.
and resemble country folks, live by sell
ing land and green horns.
They have system in both trans,
actions. They double the price OF land
every morning.
If YOU know anybody who has got a
few vacant lots that he wants to sell, tell
hin 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 house for
fear that he might cover an oil well.
Consequently the Hotels are little
crowded.
The Muggins Hotel, where 1 put up, is
much so.
Muggins, the proprietor, is the most
accommodating man you ever saw. A
city railroad conductor isn't circum-
stance to him.
He has only got six beds i'll 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
rious. We go to bed III platoons.
When the first platoon get asleep they
are carefully taken out of bed and hung
over II clothes line. The second platoon
go through the same process until every
body is provided for.
Preferring to sleep alone, Islept on the
mantel-piece with the coal-scuttle for
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 sharp bore. A public lee
turer won't do Neither will skating
gimlet.
took d brace-and-bit, and went in
Got down about seven hundred thousand
feet into the bowels of the Land, when l
came to an ;mpediment.
Found that had struck the pre-Adam-
tic rock, of the ossifed strata of the ST.
lrIiau formation.
This is geology, and you herhaps
wont understand it, but l will explain
It all in The paper to the Historical So
ciety am about writing.
Cot candle and went down to see
about it.
Hound big Megathereum about six
hundred feet long. and nine hundred
feet wide. III a capital state of preserva-
ton
express
Went on boring through forty thou
sand feet OF sandstone. Here encOun-
tered a strange smell Of sulphur, which
alarmed the natives 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 come out on the outer
side of creation.
Bored on. Went through about sixty
Thousand feet moro, when suddenly the
brace and-bit went in, and there was
grand report like that made by Buffers
powder boat which didn't blow up Fort
Fisher
Things were slightly confused for a
time. A section of Pennsylvania went
up, and l went up with it, l guess
1 must have came down again, as the
next idea l had, was finding myself
comfortably hung over the clothes line
at the Muggins Hotel.
An investigation into the matter
showed that l had struck through to a
gas factory in China, which had exploded
at both ends of the bore, killing half a
million Chinese.
The casualties on our side were contin-
ed 10 one native and small dog
The Megatherian had also disappear
l haven't given up yet. The folks
here are very encouraging; they will stick
to man as long as he has got a cent left,
and | never knew Muggins to turn u man
out Of his hotel who had the means to
pay his bill
a Gndlearted chap offered me another
piece ol ltnlu, the size OF StOVe-plate,
within Il mile and half of seven hun
dred barrel well, Tor the reasonable fig
ure of half a million and two-thirds of
the OIL
concluded that boring for oil is not so
profitable as bleeding the public. 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
laIS. 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 sea-
son ticket Tor Lanigau's Ball, new hat,
farm in Minnesota, and ton of coal at
market prices
The "Scaly Run" Petroleum Company
will be the biggest thing in oil in the
market.
I am coming on to arrange the business
a soon as my friends remit me funds
enough to pay my way back.
Yours olsaginously
CORY O'LANUs.