Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1879-10-29
Communicated
TRIP THROUGH BUTLER
COUNTY.

Messrs. Editors-Having taken
trip through the northern and north
eastern part of Butler county lately,
| concluded to give you part, at least,
of my observations, experience, &c,
in regard to matters politically, fnan-
cially and socially. | will notice each
Characteristic briefly as | pass along.
| started from near the county line
between Butler and Armstrong coun-
ties, in Allegheny township, and pro-
ceeded by way Of Six Points. This is
in the new Butler county oil territory
of which so much stir is being made
at present, although no large amount
of oil has been yet found in close prox-
unity to the Six Points. Several build
ings have been erected during the past
summer. A grocery, bakery, lumber
yard and some other signs of life and
living appear planted around in the
woods and by the roadsides. Byron
Centre seems to be the larger attrac-
ton as yet, but beyond doubt Six
Points will one day boom up as place
OI dJ lcdSI lOCdi iiiipoi ouiNO'
The Byron Centre oil belt will yet
be traced westward into Butler county,
and another Bullion will be the result.
Already the eyes of the Bradford pro-
ducers are turned toward this pronis-
ing field, and could the one-half of them
get back pocket whole" lively times
would be inaugurated forthwith; but
Just as soon as they can get out Of
the Northern field "in shape" we may
expect lively "wildcatting" at least in
the northeastern part of Butler county
From Six Points we took the road
to Annisvile, passing some very fine
improvements by the way; also DR..
A. w. Crawford, the "head centre" of
Republicanism in Allegheny township,
and q formidable one he is, too, as
many a sorely defeated Democratic
candidate will easily but unwillingly
admit. The DR.. seems good for sew
eral campaigns yet, and is as lively as
any lad of sixteen years old would be
under similar circumstances Passing
on we saw some Of the improvements
brought about by the oil business, in
the shape of coalbanks, rig timbers,
&c, which gave the country quite an
air of hustle and activity. Nothing of
note occurred between Six Points and
Annisville, but on taking a peep into
| the storehouses of Dame Nature we
discovered that she had literally sup
piled her friends in general and the
hogs in particular with an abundance
of nuts, acorns and other wild mast.
The farmers crops, too, looked as
though they would pay for the last
seasons labor, especially the buck
wheat, corn and "punkin" crops. From
Annisville to North Washington crops
about the same, but oh, the chestnuts
1t was chcstnuts to the right Of us,
chestnuts to the left Of us, chestnuts
over us and chestnuts under us, with
acorns and hickory nuts by way OF
variety. We passed about dozen
boys and girls on their way to the
stores loaded with chestnuts, which,
one of them informed us, they expected
TO get about six cents per quart
for in trade or five cents in cash.
They might get rich at that rate, if the
chestnuts held out long enough and
the stores continued to buy.
At North Washington we saw NJ
w. Harper preparing couple OF the
celebrated armstrong" threshing ma.
chimes. He informed us that he was
going to make a Bee" to get hlt
buckwheat threshed that afternoon
Just like him too lazy to thresh II
himself and too stingy to pay regular
hands to do It. No wonder he gets
rich so amazingly fast, but as he do
mated us cigar we will let him off fol
the present.
On the way from North Washington
to Sunbury the nut business took {
change from so much variety to {
steady thing on acorns acorns all tho
way and to spare; the hogs seemed
fairly dsgustcd with them. Passing
through the "Meals settlement" W.
were struck with the apparent enor
nous crops of buckwhcat. j say
apparent, as we did not get off to ex
anime whether it was well headed ant
filled or no, but the way u inad'
"bunches" in. the field would put t.
shame sappling ridge with th
stumps chopped off high up. AT nool
we arrived at the farm Of Rev. Jane
Coulter. His son, John O., runs thing
and seems to make II success Of il toe
Dinner over, we repaired to the iiel'
and began an onslaught on the chest
nuts and succeeded in bagging (no pu
intended) about bushel and IA half il
about three hours. This was fu
enough for one day, particularly as W
"feHv that the next week would b
mostly consumed in digging chestnu
= prckles out of our fingers. Some G
i the internal prickles are there yet an
torment us daily. Next morning, afte
delightful nights rest, we took th
| 1f IA.