The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-06-24

hay reached the land OF Oil, having IA
ken safer route than the E,e
Penhsylvania is good sized state and i
takes some time TO get there.
When you do get nere you wish you hadn'
come.
Thef fe is plenty of'oil-and tha; is al, ex
cept Id Is of people.
1 md de for "Snaky Rur," the mos, likel.
place for oil.
The call these places runs, because ever
body who is after oil runs here.
Every man you meet il the president
director or engineer of q petroleu com
7 am.
The natives, who are white people and
r"semAl PIE country folks, live by sellins land
and gre eenhorn..
The have system in both transactions
The double tie price of Ind every morn
ing.
If you know anybody who has 90, few
vacant lots that lie wants to sell. t.l! him &c
bring them out here.
Tie folks are so busy looking for oil they
haven't time to build houses, and rybody
is afraid 10 put up = house for fear that be
ml 5ht cover an oil well.
CUn~e luently the hotels are q little crowd
ed.
The Muggi"s hotel, where pu. up is
much so.
Muggins. the proprietor, Is the mos; sc,
comu,odating ra.r. rou ever saw. 4 city
railroad conluct,c isu't circumstance with
him
He has only got six beds in III. house, bal:
he IS always ready 70 take ia everybody.
He took me IN.
Also two hundred more petroleum p.!
grims.
The sleeping accorm oaaiions a:e various
We 90 to bed ia -Ia,1op5.
When the first platoon get asleep they are
carefully taken "ut OF bid and hung over &
clothes line. The second platoon % rhrou glI
the same process until everybody : p.ov.d
cd Tor.
Preferrng to sleep alone, slep, On tie
nan;el-piece, with coal scuttle for Il pillow.
As | observed, land IS precious herr.
! bough, lot tn inches BY fJgr for three
hundred Thousand LolLa.z. aud commenced
operations.
The seZi ,kiag i, to commence t,rlag.
You want q sharp bore = paI-.a --ct--
rer w@a,t do
took brace ana bit, and went in.
Got down ;,b1rt seven La.j-ed ih5nsaal
fee; into ila bowels OF the .ara, racu came
to an ImpcGiacat.
FyunI that : 4-sl struck he rreal4ni,e
rock Of tie ossiEct ssl-tl o. tic a.i-r,aa
formation
This ;i geolog7. and ga perhaps won,
understand il. Out | will explain i nil IL Tie
paper to 'he HiSco:icai Secieiy an aboli
writing.
Got candle and went down - see about
found big Jcga,heriun, about SIX
hundred feet long, IN capital state q Pse-
got him On; and shall Eead L:-a s!.ng By
cxpnfss.
" Mt OF boring through ftrty thousand
feet 'of sandstone. Here e.couarer1l :.
strange smell Of sulphur. which alarmed the
natives who SOLD rne the land aud % e..,e lis
cOnsci-ncc he gave me half tie ia0Gey b.cs,
and wanted me 10 stop boring.
Told him was bound to kee? on till
struck lie, or ca me on; or the other eide q.
creation
Bored on. Went through abou, si=,y
IA usaHd feet more, when suddenly t.ie brace
and biz went in. and there was a sra III eiort
Ike that made by Buffers power boat wIich
didn't blow rp For, Fisher.
Things were slightly confused for a time
\ section Of Pennsylvania wen; up, and
went up with it. guess l must lave come
down again, as The next idea | IVA was fad
ing myself comfortably hung over the clothes
line al The Muggins hotel.
An investigation into the matter showed
that had struck through in,o gas factory
Il Chine, which had exploded at both ends
oil the bore, killing half 4 million Of Chinese.
The casu slties on our silc we're coaiined
10 one native and {. small dog.
| haven't given up get. Tie folks here
are very encouraging: they vii! stick l. Il
man as long as lie has "a cent le!t, and never
knew Musgjas turn a man out OF his hotel
who had The means to pay his bill
A Kind hearted chap offered M another
piece OF land The size OF Il stove l.ite. within
4 mile and halt OF seven hundr-t barrel
well, for the reasonable figure OF half mil
lion, and two thirds of the oil
l have concluded that boring for this oil is
not so profitable as bleeding the public. |
shall start an OF! company on nare liberal
terms than any yet offered.
| shall be prepared to guarantee anything.
The cap tai will be one million dollars, diyid
ed into Two million shares oi fifty cents each.
Dividends of ;wo hundred per Gent. will
be paid weekly. in addition to which each
subscriber will be entitled to 4 season ticket
for Lannigans bali, a new hat, a farm in Mn
nesot,, and Il ton of coal at market prices.
The "Scay Run'' petroleum company,
will be the biggest thing in oil in the market.
! am coming on TO arrange The business as
soon as my friends remit me funds enough ~
pay my way back. Yours oleagiucusly-
CoKIY OLANUs.