North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1865-07-26
VOL. 4 NO. 40
CORY OLANUs AT THE on RF.
GIONS,


ken a safer route than the Erie.
Pennsylvania is a good sized State but is
takes some time to get there r-@
! When you do get here you wish you had
not come. .......,. ..
There is plenty of oil-and that is ell ex-
cept lots of people.
lam for Snake Rum" the most likliest
place for oil.
They call these places runs because every
person who is after oil runs here.
Every man you meet is president, direct.
or or and engineer OF petroleum company.
The natives, who are white people resems
BILE country folks, live by selling land to
greenhorns
They have system in both transact ions.
| They double the price of land every morn.
ing.
Ifyou know anybody who has got q couple
of vacart lots that he wants to sell tell him
to bring them out here.
The folks are so busy looking for oil they
havn't time to build honses, and every body
is afraid to put up house for fear he might
cover an lie well.
Consequently the hotels are little crowd.
ed.
The Muggins house whore put up is much
So
Muggins the proprietor, is the most accom-.
modating man you ever saw. A city railroad
conductor isn't circumstance to him.
He has only got six beds in the house but
he is always ready to take in everybody.
He took me in.
Also two hundred more petroleum nil.
grims.
The sleeping accommodations are various.
We go to bed on pantaloons.
When the first pantaleons get asleep they
are carefully taken ost and hung on close.
line. The second pantaloons go through the
same process, until everybody is provided
for. @
Preferring to sleep alone, slept on the
mantle piece with the coal scuttle for pil.
low.
AS observed land is precious out here.
bough1 lot ten inches by four, for ten
hundred thousand dollars, and commenced
operations.
The next thing is IN nnna hnrinp
You want sharp bore. 4 public lecture
won't do. either will a skating gimblet.
took brace and bit and went in.
Got down about seven thousand feet into
the bowels of the land, when I came to an
impediment.
Found that had struck Pre-adamite
rock of ossifed strata of the Silurian forma-
tloD.
That is geology, and you perhaps won't
understand it, but will explain 1t all in the
paper to the Historical Society am about
writiHg.
Got candle and went down to see about
Found big Megathereum about six hum
dred feet long, and nine wide, in q capitsl
state of preservation. -.... ...-.
l got him and will send HIM along, by ex.
press. .s.E
Went on boring through forty feet Of sand.
stone.
There encountered strange smell of sui
pher, which alarmed the native who sold me
the land, and TO ease his conscience gave
back the money, and wanted me to stop bor-
ing.
Told him was bound to keep on until I
struck lie, or come to the other side of crea-
ton.
Bored on. Went throught about sixty
thousand feet more, when suddenly the brace
and bit went in, and there was report like
that made by Buffers powder boat that
didn't blow up 1T Fisher.
Things were slightly confused for time.
section of Pennsylvania went up, and II
went up with it. l guess must have como.
down again and the next idea had was find.
ing myself co mfortable, hung over the close
line at Muggins Hotel. ......p
An investigation into the matter showed
that had struck into gas factory in China,
| and killed half million of Chinese. -s -
fh casualties on our side were confined, to,
one native and small dog. aat
havnt given up yet -.-|rg
The folks here are very encouraging :, they
| will stick to man as long as he has q cent
| left, and I never knew Muggins to turn o
man out o. his hotel to pay his bill.
| kind-hearted chap offered me another
piece of land, the size of stove plate, within
mile and half of seven hundred barrel
WELL for the reasonable figure of half q mil.
lion and two thirds of the oil,
had concluded that boring for oil is NOE
80 profitable as bleeding the public.
l shall start an oil company on more lib.
! eral terms than any yet offered / shall be-
prepared to guarantee anything. The capi-
tai will be million of dollars, divided into
two million shares, at fifty cents each. ~.
Dividends of two hundred per cent. will
be paid weekly, in addition 10 which each
subscriber will have season ticket for Lani-
gan's Ball, new hat, farm near In Crosse,
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