The Portland daily press., 1865-05-12
lFroIn the Brooklyn Eagle.l
CORY 0'Lanus at the Oil REGIONS.

-it@i " AaeA On REGIONS, Pa.
DEAR EAGLE III have reached the land
Of oil, having taken safer route than -the
Erie. p g8EEe GaA 6sk
Pennsylvania is good sized State and it
takes some time TO get here
When you do get here you wish you hadn't
come. =
There Is plenty Of oil--and that's al, except
lots Of people. fSA qsfs
made for "snaky Run, the most likely
place for oil, ta
They call these places Runs, because every
body who is after oil runs here.
Every man you meet is the President, Di-
rector or Engineer ola petroleum company. !,
The natives, who are white people, and re-
semble country folks, live by selling land and
greenhOrns. ss.,o
They have system in both TRANSACTIONS.
They double the price of land every morning.
g Iryou know anybody who has got few
vacant lots that he wants to sell, tell him Ito
bring them out here.
The folks are SO busy looking for oil they
haven't time TO build houses, and everybody
Is afraid to put up house for fear that he
might cover an oil we'll. Assi0sss
Consequently the hotels are a little crowd
ed.
The Muggins Hotel, where / put up, is
much so.
uSsaues eno PtopliosoA, 40 suo must &c
commoaatlng man you ever saw. A City
l ran conductor ISN'T circumstance TO
He has only got six beds in the housebut he
Is always aeady to take In everybody.
He took me in.
Also two hundred more petroleum pill
gins.
The sleeping Accommodations are various
We 90 to bed in platoons.
When the fret platoon get asleep they are
carefully taken out Of bed and hung over
clothes-ilne. The second platoon go through
the same process until everybody is provided
for.
Preferring to sleep alone, / slept on the
mantle piece, with the coal seuttle for piE
low.
As observed, land is precious out here.
bought lot ten inches by four, for three
hundred thousand dollars, and commenced
operations.
The next thing is to commence boring.
You want sharp bore. A public lecturer
won't do. Neither will a skating gimlet.
took brace aud bit, and went In.
Got down about seven hundred thousand
feet into the bowels Of the land, when came
TO an impeachment.
Found that had struck the pre-Adamite
rock OF the ossif1ed strata OF the Silurian for
nation. <
This - geology, and you perhaps won't pm
derstand It, but Will explain it all in the
paper 70 the Historical Society, am about
Wrlung'
SoI candle ana went down to see about
s.
,ouno Ng Megatherium about six hum
uleu lees long, and nine hundred wide, In a
caRltai state OF preservation. "
got MIN out and shall send him along by
express.
Went On boring through forty thousand feet
OF sandstone. Here encountered q strange
smell OF sulphur, which alarmed the native
who sold me the land, and to ease his con-
science ne gave me half the money back, and
wanted me to stop boring.
Iosd MIN was bound TO keep on until
struck lie, or came out on the other side of
creaton.
Bored on. Went through about sixty
tnousand ieet more, when suddenly the brace
ana Dis went 10, ana there was grand report
n s,s inat mace Dy Buffers poWder-boat which
uio IN oloW up Fort fisner.
Anlngs were sngnuy confused for tilne.
a sectlon 81 pennsylvania went up, AND l
Mens up VAIN y. guess 1 must have come
uown againg, rs the next ldea mad was fhd-
~ ill., myssll semlortaply hung over the clothes.
Ans az tne Muggins Hotel
thar an h tnsdes.lgauon INTO the matter showed