The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-06-14
Corr, o,Lanu. at the Oil Resions

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have reached the land of Oil, having
taken safer route than the Erie.
Pennsylvania is good sized State, and it
takes some time to get there.
When you do get here you wish you had mt
cc..-.ie.
There is plenty Of oil and that is all ex-
cept lots Of people.
am for Snake Run" the most likely
place for all.
They call these places runs, because ev-
srybody who is after oil runs here.
Every man you meet is the President, d.
rector or engineer of petroleum company.
The natives who are white people and re-
semble country people, Eve by selling land
and greenhorns
They have systam in both transactions
They double the price Of land every morn
ing.
Fyo1 know anybody who has few va
can. lots to sell tel him to bring them out
here.
The folks are SO busy looking for oil they
haV mt time to build houses. and everybody
is afraid to put up house for fear he might
cover an oil we'll
Consequently the hotels are little crowd.
ell
The Muggins Hotel, where I put up, is
much 50.
Muggius, the proprietor, is the most ac-
mmodating man you ever saw. a city
railroad conductor isn't circumstance TO
him
He has only six beds in his house, but he
is always ready to take in everybody.
He took me in
Also about two hundred more petroleum
pilgrims.
The sleeping accommodations arc yari-
ous We 90 to bed in platoons.
When the first platoon get asleep they
are carefully taken out Of bed and hung
over close line. The second platoon go
through the same process, until everybody
is provided for.
Preferring to sleep alone, I slept on the
mantle piece with the coal shuttle for pill
low.
As I observed land is precious on here
bought a lot ten inches by four, for ten
hundred thousand dollars, and commenced
operations.
The next thing isto commence boring.
You want sharp bore. A public lectu-
&c, won't do, neither will skating gimlet.
took brace and bit and went in.
Got down about seven thousand feet into
the bowels Of the land when I came to an
irnpediment
Found that mad struck the pre- -Adamite
rock of the ossiied strata Of the Silurian
formation.
This is geology, and you perhaps wont
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
found big Megatherium, about six
hundred teet long, and nine wide, in capi-
tai state Of preservation.
got him out and will send him along 1y
express
Went on boring through forty feet Of
sand stone.
Here encountered strange smell Of sui
1hur. which alarmed the native who sold me
the land, and to ease his conscience gave
back hals the money, and wanted me tc
stop boring.
Told him was bound to keep on until
struck lie, or come out on the other side o.
creation.
Bored on Went through about sixty
thousand feet more, when suddenly the
brace and bit went in, and there wasa granG
report like that made by Buffers powder
boat that did mt blow up Fort Fisher
Things were slightly confused for awhile
4 section Of Pennsylvania went up and
went up with it. guess | must have comt
down again, as the next idea | had wa
finding myself comfortable hung over thu
clothes line at Muggins' Hotel.
An investigation into the matter showed
that | had struck through into a gas factor,
n China, which had exploded at both end
of the bore killing half million Chinese
The casualties on our side were confined
to one native and small dog.
| haven't given up yet
The folks here are very encouraging; they
viii stick to man as long as he has a cen
left and never knew Muggins to turn
man out of his hotel to pay his bill.
A kind hearted chap offered me another
piece of land, the size OF stove plate, with
in mile Of seven hundred barrel well, fo
the reasonable figure Of half a million anC
two thirds Of the well.
lad concluded that boring for oil is no
SO profitable as bleeding the public. shal
start an oil company on more liberal term
than any yet offered.
shall be prepared to guarantee anything
The capital will be million dollars, divideC
;..to two million shares at fifty cents each
Dividends Of two hundred per cent vii
be paid weekly, in addition to which eacf
for Lanlgan's ball, new hat, farm nea
La Crosse, and a ton of coal at market pri
ces.
The "Scaly Run" Petroleum Compan,
will be the biggest thing in oil in the mar
ket.
am going on to arrange the business a
soon as my friends send ME funds enough t.
pay my way back.
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