Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-13

Especial Correspondence of the Cleveland LEADER.
- MEADvILLB, PA, October 9, 1865.
Wrote you few days ago that large
excursion party of business men and capi-
salists was projected by some of the lead
ing business men Of this region, the object
being to give the invited guests an Oppor-
tunity of seeing for themselves the re-
sources and the characteristics Of the oil
country, with the chances it affords for the
profitable investments of capital. 1t is
also to give those gentlemen practical
knowledge of the vastness of what many
of. them have been wont to consider
mainly in the light of field for sharp
swfndles and Hwild- cat" speculation.
The details of the excursion are now
sufficiently arranged. to give. them
to the public. The party will be composed
of bankers and business men. and repre-
sentatives of the press, about one hundred
and fifty invitations having been given
out, extending from the New England
States to the western prairies. More in
vitations are given out in the name of the
following representative business men of
the oil country: Charles Vernon Culver,
Franklin; ]. I. Briggs, Titusyille; josh
ua Douglass, Meadville; j. j. Wadsworth
Piumer; and ]. ]. Vandergrift, Oil City
The order of arrangements is as follows:
Rendezvous at Meadville, on Tuesday
evening, October 18th. Leave Meadville
by special train for Cory at 7;OOA. NJ, of
wednesday, and, reaching Cory az miles,
at $50, stopping here one hour to en-
able the visitors to inspect the city, the
site of which was an almost
unbroken hemlock forest four years
age, the party will leave at
$40 for Titusyille, (2s miles) via the
oil Greek railway, arriving there at II
o'clock. The party will spend two hours
and dine here, leaving for Shat1er at l
o'clock and reaching Shaffer in half an
hour (s miles). At this point (the termi-
nus of the Oil Creek railway the party
, will be provided with horses and proceed
on horseback down Oil Creek and thence
. ,,.rcag the country six miles to Pithole
Citv. arriving at about 4 O. clock. This
place, WHICH HAS BIOWA VI cAteA- -
The present season, and which now num-
hers 900 inhabitants, and the enormous
wells in its vicinity, cannot be examined in
an hour, and the party will therefore spend
tbe remainder of the afternoon and
tbe night here, leaving at A. NJ. on Thurs
day. From this point the ride will be to
90 Plumer. thence down Cherry Run to
RouseyiIie, past the Humboldt Works, the
Reed Well, Sc, and thence down Oh
Creek to Oil City, arriving there about Il
o'clock. Stopping here for an hour, the
caysicade viii proceed to Reno, thre'
miles below, where the party will examine
tbe location Of the new town which Is be
inc laid out at this point, and the transfer
,1T6cess of the oil from boats to the cars
collation. will be served here by Mr.
Tavlor. of the McHenry House, attel
which the party viii leave by specia
train on the a & G.. W. Railway foI
franklin. four mileS below. After sui
accent stop to inspect this important point
the train viii convey the party up Frenef
Creek to Meadville on Thursday evening
Eyery effort viii be made to make tn
trim as comfortable and pleasant as posi-
bic, and to affords f9ll and th0E2ugh Yls8 9