The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-04-01
Fss0 Shares Of Stock in this Company to be had at
$50 Per Share, instead Of $3.50 Per Share,
Which they should be were they rated in proportion
to the majority of Companies, as sss below.

The following are few of the reasons for believ-
ing this Company to have basis SO solid and reia-
BILE as 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
ableness. swan 4 faltts
|. Theproperty was carefully selected at q period
when pick or choice of the best Oil Territory was
to be had.
2. 1t was selected by an energetic, practical 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 avidity by other
parties, who are now holding at an immense advance
3. The party who selected them is, and will con-
tinue to be, very large stockholder in the Com
pany. He is very respectable, energetic, driving
man, has engineered the tunnelling and other works
ofraroad building isfully qualified for and has de-
termined to devote his energies to a thorough and
efficient development Of the property Of this Com
pany, which fact is ofitsef of immense value, and
is deemed by his associate owners securing, as It
will the ceaseless devotion of deeply interested,
thoroughly competent and energetic manager.
4. The company are already energetically at
work boring five wells, namely: asf1-
The McCoy Farm Well, now so feet deep. oa..-.i,
The Wickham Farm Well, now So feet deep:
The Sharp Farm Well, now so feet deep: OBJ ~.
The briggs Farm Well, now 100 feet deep: 9esi
The Hart Farm Well, nov 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 on one acre. This Company has Territory
sufficient to sink Sir Hundred Wells, allowing
more than five acres to each we'll.
( s. And as to the abundance of Oil in the region,
it at one time became plentiful as not to be worth
the cost ofprocuring casks in which to place it, An
instance may be named in which, for want Of proper
vessels, an Ohio iatboat or scow was filed in bulk
with it, which sold at cent per gallon, but
kept until the purchaser 1esold at twenty eight
cents per gal,, or $ll 20 per barrel.
8. And as to the cheapness Of this stock, it may
be remarked that it is well known that companies of
lO0Q 90 dollars in 10000 shares have been formed
on one hundred of oil-land (and often on 1ess
and taking this basis the shares in the Company
would not be twenty cents per shares or making an
othercomparson, one share in this Company is moro
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 F rm 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 intwenty separate
companies.