The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-12-19
TuEOILREGI0N'S WONDERS
,uE SUDDEN 0ROWTH LED decay
or THE CITY or PITHOLE.
ubs, thu. Co.tto s,riLe oil-Tse Wonder
fuI Gas W ellis How New forh Cfty is 70
a. rhe,pIy illuminated in the Future.


W." w, 40. Wells How New Yorh CITY IL 20
a. Ch,rpIy Illuminated in the Future.
w., Crry. Dec 1h.---Yeetcrday | WINS
-,,,.,hv I-,boic PENNSYLVANIA. or rather where
,,.,t r..d 10 he The houses were all torn
,,, re-olation ~ns everywhere. The place
,n.,h city wasn't even nt Ter II farm. Tho
800 tne town long since passed I'm its checks.
T.r,..i,n fences roftcd away. and the location
t..t,,, uLrahor farm after vhitwind.
,.p, -idc of the road dilapidated old man
,,,ir,. 70, saw some wood He pulled away
.,,-,,,er on harr'l stave. which sprang back
and cnurht his saw. Just then two passengers
s,on,inr on the car platform CHANGED to laugh
.,,r...-ed old colorcd woman. The old man
,.u.lt the, were laughing at him His face
,,lorcd up. fur his pride was touched Then'
t.rf.in.. CO. tine passengers he said
You nccdut laugh at me. straugcrs-l aint
so dang ponr = YOU think AIN. don't own but
liNIy.' that is the estimate which Pitholian
AL .,.-u 900 iii4 native city. which nine years ago
,.tp,l lulss inhabitants, eight hotels. daily
rw-ta,tr. two telegraph Offices. six churches
snI seventy gambling houses. A "Crocus,"
fhe historian. wrote:
tr.e ratcnce on amonument
Nor ct 'oiec. uont IKE worm
Pes Ou h,r dainarcd cheeN.
Nr slrion- AN old oil man, sat near me on the
ca and asked him to tell me about the place
.Vtf. said hr. II came to- litholc on tile
srl' ityof WAY. lN,5 II was q farm then; Old
HmU.u owned 1t. They struck oil there the
..r.f .ftu struck "A 3t,n-hdrrel we'll and in
l.. team thirty days pithole became the
f.nl lu- ungg 10 INC STATE. She nae WItn
r.nalr. 800 "toncd 3; opera houses. SlJHN
i.tn. and y" liquor saloon--all, mind YOU,
within thirty DAYS. The town swarmed with
Co.'s, lI."rr- Every hins VIZ expensive Why
su urlIr irN t"au-tcr would get 80 per Gay.
Ever, lil. every garden. aud every door yard had
$50 900 de'urN 100 II, lnsiN months thg on was a,
tu".rr' rut. and then came he llthole h,"d.
li.. .wtftr ran into the wells. and the whole
Gown went to ruin. Real estate got down To
rur f." who stayed we're too poor To move
.uf.,} stayed until all the empty houses were
"i 1882 for hrcw""d aud the town became a
ru..s utlu routed Out ~ existence. NhN' the
hI. Nlnfn~th Hotel which cost SNtNN. was alb
80 ',is traded on Tor q barrel 81 whisAey.
rflfe ut pthuir Is IN "a lesser degree the
f.rufAd zen ul citirs iu rcun-l lyauin. OIL
lreu q -rnurEr TO the county ucmoraliYiul
Din. n.,f.lc uul harhari1inG society. Ten dollais
lte it,u sunk I'm Oil wells To- every dollar
worth 90 oil secured. Tho -vourec began whcf
pr r. tlc hr-i gil fanatic. bored the trrt ol
UtI hIuW Iitu-Nile iu Ui Drake bored :.
f.,f. .trIrs plenty of oil and sold II at 81 pei
/, NIn. hut IN, othcr day they took NJ a sub
-rffilr iu itua,ille to keep hiu ont Of Tho
Nrhou~e. Johnny steele. the poor orphan ho'
"lv-, sterile f4rm produced sg,ycrh hundre'
lf doll f. and gave away carriages and hotels II
INV % hra,,. man $3.50 thr rt-
f..t derrick IRON Ti.u-,iuc To- the lower edrc O.
Hutler county. a distance e one hundred miles
l. Is estimate, 1 that As.ul holes have been hore'
expense ~ one billion two hundred million dol
ltrs tsl2uOuAGu. Now all the oil produced {
Pennsylvania since brakes first well wouldn
bring spnunnJ "A DISCREPANCY of sstuO,uJ,
drained out Of tn world to lay at the feet OF thi
vrry shallow from 80 e. 81. Zee, but ali IN
wells now being drilled down Ia liuiler count
are from i.aHt to l.iiN feet deep. Some Of thei
have been drilled 1000 feet. and then proved I
ho iry holes. II is a common thing for hi
we'll. when the fourth sand Is struck. to 10
t,sU barrels ~ oil "A dav. The next day II vi
rHw l.sn. then So. then ~. and 10y and 10y