Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-03-14
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Cory 0'Lanus Epistle.
coRRr AT Tns OIL REGl0Ss--HoTEL AND THIscs
THERE-KLEVATkD REAL ESTATE,

N'"Ni ~ INV oIH kE1loNs-HOIkL AND THlNGi
THERE-KLEVATED REAL ESTATE.
on REGIoss, Pa.
DEAR EAGLE Il have reached the hand of oil,
having taken safer route than the Erie.
Pennsylvania Is good sized State, and it
takes some time to get here.
When you 10 get here you wish you had n t
come.
There is plenty Of ol-aud that is all, except
lots of people.
| made for " Snaky Run, the most likely
place for oil.
They call these places Runs, because every
DOiy who Is after OIL runs here
Eeyery man you 'et is the Presdont, Dlrec.
tor, or Engineer OF q petroleum company
lhe natives, who are white people, and re-
iembie country folks, live by selling land and
greenbOrns.
They have a system 10 both transactions. -
lhey double the price Ct land every morning.
II you know anybody who has GOT few va
cant lots that he WAITS to sell, tell HIM to briug
them out here.
The lolks are SO busy locking for oil they
have nj time to build houses, aud everybody
Is afraid to put up house for Tear that he
might cover an oil we'll.
Consequently the hotels are a little crowded
The Muggn5 Hotel, where put up is much
20.
Muggns the proprietor, is the most accom-
modaung man you ever saw. A city railroad
conductor isn't circumstance TO him.
lie has only got SIX beds in The house. but
he Is always ready to take in everybody,
H. took me in.
Also Two hundred more petroleum. pilgrims.
The sleeping accomm bottoms are various.
We 30 % bed IN litoens
When the iirst platoon get asleep they are
carefully taken on. OF bed and hung over
cothes-ne. The second platoon 70 through
the same process until every body Is provided Tor.
Preierring TO ecep alone | slept On the man
ts-piece, with coal.scuttle for pillow
As observed, land is precious out here.
bought lot, ten inches by four, for three
hundred thousand dollars, and commenced ope-
ratiOns.
The next thing is to commence boring.
You want sharp bore. A public lecturer
won't do Neither will skating gimet.
took brace and bit, and went in. Got
down about seven hundred thousand feet into
the bowels OF The land, when came to an i'm.
pedlment.
Found that had struck the pre.Adamite
rOck, OF the ossfed strata of the Slurmn tor
nation.
Ihs is geology, and ysu perhaps won't un-
derstand It, but will explain it ali in the pa.
per to the Historical Society am about writing.
Gotta candle and went down to see about il.
found big MegAthereum about six hun.
ired feet long, aud nine hundred wide, IN a
capital state OF Preservation.
got HIM out and shall send him along by
express,
Went on boring through forty thousand feet
81 sandstone. Here encountered strange
smell OF sulphur, which alarmed the native who
iold me the land, and to ease his conscience ho
ave me hall the money back, and wanted me
% stop boring.
Told him was bound b keep on until |
itruck lie, OF came out on the other sldo of ,
rtatlon.
Bo'ed on. Went through about sixty thou 4
and leet more, when suddenly the brace and pit A.,
vent in, and tteSe was grand report like that
made by Buffers powder'bol which did ut
blow up Fort Fisher.
Things were slightly confused Tor a time. A
section Of Pennsylvania went up, and | went !.
lp with IL, guees must have CONE down
gain, as the next idea had, was finding my !
eli comfortably hung over the clothes.llne al J
he Muggins llDte.
An investigation into the matter showed that !
had struck through into "a, factory in Chr.
IA, which had exploded at both ends of the !
'orc, killing half a million Chinese.
The casualties on our side were confined to :
ne native aud a small dog
The Msgathercum had also disappeared pro-
ably scared of by the explosion.
have mt given up yet. The folks here are a
cry encouraging, they will stick to man a, $
lng Us he has a cent left, aud | never knew
luggins To turn u man out OF his hotel who had !
he means TO pay his bill. D
kind.heartcd chap offered me another piece b
land, the sire Of stove plate, within mile r