The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-03-17
lFsw Shares Of Stock in tAis Company TO be had at
- $50 Per Share Instead Of $3.50 Per Share,
Which they should be were they rsted in proportion
to the majority of Companies, as ses below.

The following a few of the reasons for believ-
ing this Company to have basis so solid and rels-
BILE to give every person interested not only an
abiding confidence in the entire safety of their in
vestment but strong assurance of its great profit
1 ableness.
|. The property was carefully selected at period
when pick or choice Of the best Oil Territory was
| to be had.
2. 1t was selected by energetic, practice man,
then and still resident of the vicinity, most fully
acquainted with its situation and value, and after
personal and thorough examination, accepting only
the best, and rejecting many neighboring places
which have since been taken with avdity by other
parties, who are now holding at an immense advance
g. The party who selected Thorn is, and will con-
tinue to be, very large stakeholder in the rOm-
pany. He Isl very respectable, energetic, driving
man, has engineered the tunnelling and other works
OF railroad building, is fully qualified for and has de-
| termined to devote his energies to thorough and
efficient development of the property of this Com
pany, which fact is ofitself Of immense value and
is deemed by his associate securing, it
will, the ceaseless devotion OF deeply Interested,
thoroughly competent, and energetic manager.
| 4. The Company are already theoretically at
! work boring five wells, namely:
The Mccoy Farm Well, now so feet deep:
The Wickham Farm Well, now 50 feet deep:
inc onarp tarm well, now ~ feet deep:
The briggs Farm Well, now 100 feet deep
The Hart Farm Well, now 300 feet deep,
with excellent indications of oil in each and have
determined, if thought best, to put down not less
than One Hundred. Many Companies have several
wells acre. This Company has Territory
| sufficient to stink Sic Hundred Wells, allowing
more than five acres to each we'll.
! 5. And as to the abundance of Oil in thu region
it at one time became plentiful not to be worth
the cost ofprocurng casks in which to place it. An
instance may be named in which, for want Of proper
vessels, an Ohio fatboat scow was filled in bulk
with it, which was sold at cent per gallon, but
kept until the purchaser iesold at twenty EIGHT
cents per GAL, or $lI 20 per barrel
6. And as to the cheapness of this stock, it may
be remarked that it is well known that companies of
l0O0 o0 dollars, in 1901 900 shares have been formed
on one hundred acres ofol-land, (and often on less
and taking this basis. the shares in the Company
would not be twenty cents per share; or making an
other comparison one share in this Company is more
than equal to having one share in twenty separate
| companies, inasmuch as the average Of each sep
arate Farm, in this Company, forms basis for
company by itself each Farm having so many choice
places which to sink separate wells; yet all these
Farms are thrown into this one Company for the
benefit Of each shareholder. making it equal, COM
paratively, to sharing dividend in twenty separate
companies llf.. r-n