American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-02-08

and safest?
3. What is the amount per share
viii you please take the trouble to an
swer the above, and give any other infor-
nation you may think best z?
Yours, respectfully, S.
Rplcy, Ohio, Jin 20, 1865.
AYswGR-We know very little of bor-
ing for Petroleum, save in very general
way; yet we believe that it has proved
more successful than mining for Gold, or
Silver, or any other metal Individuals
have doubtless lost by this as by every
other form of human enterprise; yet it is
our impression that two dollars have been
made for every one lost by attempts to
extract petroleum from the valley of the
Ohio. And we doubt whether any other
Mining enterprise SO extensive aud i'm
portant as this was ever halt so success
iul And, while it is certain that this
speculation will be overdune like every
other so that dozen wells will ultimate
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the business is yet ia its infancy.
Yet we could not advise our iuquirpg
friend to buy The stock Of amp company
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We are now prepared to go further
and say W hen you see any Investment
emphatlchiiy' perSistehliy colhmehacu ID
newspaper DC very ca'eIu' now you puI
your money INTO H. IL may De gooo
thlngj but the iact that It's promoters
deem It advisable TO court such ruoic y
raises contrary presumption Inc Jour
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'ne metals II Is Il '""'"O'0 '"ous" i''
c'''ou7 ous'"ess y'" may oS' } oU' 'i,o"
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you ca" ''"'u'y '".' " oe''e'' 'ho Pu"''''
we hote 70 Se' F" '''so "a P1''S'o" u III ~
ing o'er"''on' "''"'i 'o'J II" '"''
For the present, however, we trust 1t
may be iorborne; and we urge our inqur-
ing friend and all others vino have money
not required in their regular business to
invest it, not in mines nor IN wells, nor in
petroleum, nor gold, nor copper, nor iron,
but III the public stocks Of our Govern
ment. We urge this as the dictate alike
Of common interest and OF patriotic duty.
We are involved in great war; which
taxes the resources OF our country to the
utmost a good many i'esh millions must
be loaned to theUovernment every month
or the War must stop abruptly and dIsas-
trously. Every energy should be taxed