The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-10-26
touf OIL Dorado Corlespendsncc.1
PithOls---Hsw to get to it, and What is seen
there.

! PiThoLE, Pa, oct. 81, 1865,
Starting on long and perilous journey to N GO
ca or Jerusalem, the pilgrim bids adieu to his
native land, and with beating heart bur IRON
nerve, leads off for the fs of desert or distant
ocean. So it is yith the gold-ssSker vino ST arts
for the hidden treasures OF tbs Sierra Nevads,
and the huuter of oil in shs boWsl4 al he Allie
ghany mQuuEaius. .----- ---------------.....
| Leaving Chicago by the ten p N. train, our
GdVenturer reaches Cleveland the nexr day al
two III the sfternouD.--HeIs he hSs- . choice Of
two routes 10 Cory; one by tbs way OF Erie, and
| the other by the way of MeadSilies The time 10
about the came, it taking some six hUuls. BY
consulting map, Cory Will be seer to be some
twenty-five miles south of Erie, and lucae I'D Oh
the Atlantic u Crest Western K. h. Two year,
| ago, It consisted of small station only, AID was
| surrounded by dense forest 1t now boasts Of
some 20oe 1nhabitaHrs. II has an extensive Oh
hennery. In the hQtel line, it beats The saloons
! pt ken"stIa, Tor kthfok share Sre abnuv tor. v
| Lsayiag Corrys the next pace il Tiuav lie, r
large, n}urlsnlng Town, some Is iniles d-Ian, Z,
when has grown wealthy and populvu~ siready
out OF The oil trade. p This place might be Apply
siyied Inc OieAglneus cate, through winch the
| liquid wealth of OIdum flows. Here reside large
capitalists engaged in the business and ttnin
here all the trade and commerce tn lie variuu
oil regions start. Tbs streets are crowded. with
teams loaned with merchandise, heavy wagons
OF oil, -mScllnery, and supplies Of every kind
There are numer9paicoRches and wagons of ali
descriptions, loaded. down with pas-engers and
freight, 81 +r'h2 for the various towns and luca,-
tiles among the mountnns where oil is found
There are Oil Rehueries here. tOO-great depofs
filled With barrels of oil piled up to the root, and
blocks OF land also covered with the sane black
barrels, piled ono upon another twenty feet high
1 These blocks can be- all ost measured bS the
acre. This large quantity Of OIL in its crude
stSte, Is waiting trans-shiptneHt 10 New York
Every train that is met between CORY and Ii
tusviie, is loaded with the same material, and
| Kerosene perfumes the air for miles arouid oii
! Gltusvie, when first sew il was one sea ol
mnd, and is so still, "Bsd luck to yes, as the
hLbernisn says, to the one who happens to step
of of the Eject vide sidewalk. But the Dig
wagons called stages are Of for Plthoie, over the
hills, down into the jungles, and across the mud
! dy streams. An JEnRlish party lately made the
excursion, ami one of them, Sir Morton Peto,
having poetic turn of mind, of this road sang
these truthful wordt: "' .' -'
"'PIrHsL1' indeed, well chosen paue ..'
Scarce had We started, ere We came
| TO twenty 'pt-hslss,' great and small, ".r.s
| 'Stiii none sufficient to turn US back,
| Or make tile driver doubt bistfack;
| 49,, We simply plunged into them ALL 10. ..
/, And sunk 20 sesp, through mad so vile,
thought We mus bS-'strikinE ileP
''Nov. the moral Of my saIe,
| And may its meaning Revsr fail, ns
I 10 reach the Wind VI old and youLg:
| 10 thosc who read, and tho 10 Who think,
T. With those who leaf and tho se who drink,
1i34'' This word % vArnny exc 10 suuE, mi g..
/. shun, ~ loq iy1aid 3 hons cSKe,
! That journey BY he Pjth OILS stage"
| Good t',r Peto He j. a gentleman, aud a man
Per literary taste, az shown by his purchasing
BiersradPs celebrated picture or the Rock
MountaHs for $25,ooO! This work waai On exhi-
bib Oh IL the Ar: Gallery, during the Sanitary
Fair, and was considered the chef louvre of that
chsice collection OF paiutings.
But while have been depressing, we have
reached the point OF high hill thai overlook
the celebrated ely called ''Pithoe.s few
days ago these hIs that surround the Town were
In their native forest state N w the Of urdy oaks
| are fnlen Tor W.'od, to feed The engInea in the
valleys below. looking thrU' these vaneys from
this stand point of view, the trayslsrj,sees long
liues OF derricks stalking sw ay in The distance,
like long row of colossal giants of old he sees
the walking beams OF thousand engines, ana
the smoke arising from thousand furnaces feed
ing 'hese iron monsters, snd it resembles the
smoke arising from au army bivouacking Oh the
PLAIN. This place is--O1idorRdo ..it