The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1872-03-25
OH Cry. March 81.

there Is widespread Indignation and mucn
bitter feeling
A chartered monopoly, secret and OATH
bound, based upon special chartered rights,
wicked aud unjust to this vast oil region,
seeking to monopolizs and grasp Tor the ir
own selfish purposes the honest industries or
this people, amounting to many million dol.
lars.
10 behalf of those who are to be the vic
Tins of the monster monopoly we ask Of you
q candid yes or decided "no.,
Hoping 10 hear Of you soon, we remain
respectful lily yours
A. J..GREENFlELD,
G. A. COOPER,
l.. HALDEMAN.
Committee.
To Me.Ha L. Haldeman, c. A. Cooper A.
J. Greenfield.
TlrusvILLE, March 20, 1872.
GENTLEMEN-Your favor OF the 18th came
to hand tbls morning, together with the
resolutions passed ut The Ull City OH Ex'
CD auge meeting he d on Saturday last, re-
qiesiing ms tU sever my connection with
lne South improvement Company.
/ am not an agent of the South lmprore-
ment. Company, have not ndeavored ~ buy
oil for them. Dever having received no or
der 10 do SO; consequently have no con-
what it has been Tor years past; Conducted
10 every particular now, Ms then, with.
out any cbangs whatever. Iu its prosecu,
tion trust have been. and always shall bs
governed by that selfrespect which, az you
truly oh erve, attaches to all business nIrn.
l remain, gentlemen. very respectfully
yours, Ge., JOSEPH BUSHNELL.
To Messrs. L. Haldeman, c. A. Cooper and
A. J. Greenfield.
GEXTLEAEN-You our favor ofthe 18th inst
together with the proceedings Of the Oil
city Oh Exchange annexed, iy at hand aud
contents duly noted, ana in which you i'm
piy tbsi We are sgents for the South In
ptovement Company and want II straight
iorwaId answer. Our answer is no. We
are not, nor hare zoe been agents for the
South improvement Company.
Very respectfully.
JonN W. ALEXANDE II.
JOSEPH SEEP,
DANIEL O'DAY.
iAhhEh bASDlNu, MutCu ~, lctS.
To M-ssrs. l.. H.liemau, C. A. Cooper aud
A. J. Greenfield, Oh City.
GENTs:-- Your favor of the 18th, asking
me 10 sever my connection with the South
Improvement Company just to hand in re-
ply | have only TO say tbst / am not buying
for The South Improvement Company, but
Tor joseph Bushnell, by whom | an en-
ployed. (who employs Bushnell:) /
have been with him over year aud my re-.
lation with him 10 y business point of view
rernain unchanged. l wouid therefore re-
sPeclfuII5 refer TO him. Yours truly,
GEO. W. HuFr.
NoTz.-By the cid OF ous itaiiet Il will
bs seen that the committee failed to ask
them to sever their connections with Wat
son, Bostwick, Loekhsrt, Waring, Warden,
or Clarke, &c., DC, but only with S. /. Co.,
. secret arrangement TO which Of course
they do not Gas agents) belong and are no.
supposed to know any thing sbou. it, as
they only buy oil ior their individual EN-
ployers, to whom ell oil may bs shipped as
(". foliows) iu Bostwieks name, and he Is
certainly not the Southern Improvement
Company. Sect
And although the agents tell the truth
yet 1t we sell them oil ne may be sold as the
COMMITTEES was, perhaps. Thus
The committee appointed ~ the Oil City
meeting TO confer with tbe so-cailed agen 10
OF The South Improvement Company, Jo>
seph Bushn.ll, Joseph Seep. John W. Al.
exander, Daniel O'Day, George W. HUFF
and II. W. Fswcstt, (Query-Who do these
ssenis bny oil for!1 made their report
which appears 10 ihs Oii City Derrick and
Titusviile Courier aud Herald of to day. -
Each OF these gentlemen emphaticaliy deny
having anything whatever TO do with the
monopoly, thereby clearing themselves Of
the imputation OF belonging 10 the odious
and corrupt combination that seeks, as tie
COMMITTEES justly remark, "to mOpopolizs
aud grasp tor their own selfish purposes the
hoosst industries Of the people amounting
10 many millions Of dollars.
| Petroleum Centre Record.
IL 1t only committees to Harrisburg who
get moon -struek, or invest iu south In
pIovsmsnt spse.acles?