Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-05-20
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When yon do get here you wish You hadn't
come l,al $500 ilai Iieirt
There ia plenty of oil--and that is ali ex
cept lots Of people.
! am for "Snake Run" the most likely
place for all ti 'fHf 'H Hntti
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 or petroleum company
The natives, who are white people, aud
resemble country folks, live by selling land
and greeuhorns ... t.t. .ils,.e,t
They have system in both transactions
They double the price OF land every morning
II you know any body who has got few
vacant dots that he wants to sell, tell him to
bring them ont here. E...l -.t,
The folks are 80 busy looking for oil they
haven't time to build houses, and everybody
is afraid to put up house for fear. he might
cover an oil we'll
q ConsequentyIho hotels are arc a little
crowded .i.5.a slf-.
The Muggins Hotel where put up, Is
much SO.
| Muggins, the proprietor, is the most ac
/ comodating man you ever saw A city rail
road conductor isn't a circumstance TO
him 1tss3 Htue-a
He has only got six beds in tho hohse,
but he IL always rendy 10 take in every
body
lie took me in, 4daN .a
Also two hundred more petroleum pil-
grims 4 haat c.l -,
The sleeping Accommodations are varions.
We go To. bed in platoons. ssa02
When the FIRST platoon get asleep they are
carefally taken out of bed and hung over
close line The second platoon go through
the same process, until everybody is provided
for. Y 1aa fi
! Preferrng to sleep alone, slept on the
mantle piece with the coal scntLle lor pill
/ low. gr .u M ss
As | observed land is precious on here.
bought lot ten inches by four, for ten
hundred thousand dollars, and commenced
4 operations. N4
The next thing is TO commence boring.
| You want sharp bore A public .lnctnr-
er won't do, neither will a skating gini--
let .,sa. .lss1 ts fu b
] took brace and bi. aud went in.
Got down about seven thousand feet into
the bowels Of the land, when came to an
impediment 3If
Found that had struck the pro- -Adamite
i rock of the ossifed strata OF The Silurian for.
nation. 'N(sA 90 tl 81
Thisis geology, and you perhaps won't un-
Iderstand it, but lwill explain il all in tho
Ipaner 70 the Historical Society am about
writing. sa eauss
Gotta candle and went down TO see about
lin, H q o. sqt
found big Megatherium, about six hun.
dred feet long, and nine wide, in a capital
state of preservation,
\ got him out and will send him along by
express e tAea
4 Went on boring through forty feet of sand
stone. 1 NJ
Here encountered strange sn ell of sui
phur, which alarmed the native who sold me
the land, and to case his conscience gave
back hslfthe money, and wanted me To stop
Told him was bound to keep on il until L
Istruek lie, or come out on the other side Of
Bered on Went lhorGgh about sixty thou
sand feet more, when suddenly the brace and
, lbit went 10, and there was q grand report like
that made by Butler powder boat,tha dind I
Iblow up Fort Fisher. 2 i4oloa N
Things were slightly confused for awhile.
section Of Pennsylvania went nE and /
went up with IL l gdess must have come
down again, as the nextidea | had was finding
myself comfortable, hung over lhe clothes
: line at Muggins Hotel, n,
An iGsestga.ion into the matter showed
that l had struck through into gas factory
, in China, which had exploded at both ends OF
the bore, killing half1a million Of G inese.
The casualties on our side were confined
: TO one native and a small dog.
hayen't given up yet -.
al The folks here are very encouraging they
will stick 10 Q man as long as he has a cent
/. left, and never knew Muggins 10 turn a
man out OF his hotel 10 pay his bill
a kind hearted chap offered me another
piece OF land, the size Of a stove plate, within
mile and half Of seven hundred barrel
, we'll for the reasonable figure of half n mil.
lion, and two thirds Of the oil
had concluded that boring for oil Is not
so profitable as bleeding the public | shall
start an oil company on more liberal terms
: than any yet offered.
Ishali be prepared to guarantee Anything.
The capital will be amiilion dollars, divided
: into two million shares, at ffly cents each.
a Dividends Of two hundred per cert will
7 be paid weekly, in addition to which each
! subscriber will be entitled TO a season ticket
tof Langisn's Ball, new hat, a farm near
Lao Crosse, and ton of coal at market pri-
ces.
+ The "Scaly Run" Petroleum Company will
i be the biggest thing in oil in the market
am going ON to arrange the business as
soon as my friends send send me funds
enough 70 pay my way back,
; AM yours, oleaginously,
4 fs, ~ C0RRY oLANUs.
Leltersirom Europe bring advices that many
of the refugee SonthernsTs, including foreign.
ers who have made the South their home for
. bnsiness purposes, are preparingto retlrn to
J their old hanSls, aud il was agreed on ALL
sides that the war vas over and that friendly