The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-29
OIL IN
DIN cuitfes Attending Its Production
in the Wessarn Sfafe

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Although it was nearly twenty years
ago that petroleum was discovered in
the arid plains north of Casper, Wyo..
it is only recently that the field has pro-
duced any oil, says the st. Louis '.Globe-
Democrat" The region is a desolate
country with scanty vegetation. and
hardly any water fit to drink. In 1884
a number of Pennsylvania gentlemen
drilled a well and e%ndeavored to develop
the property, but the task was an up
had to be hauled fifty miles to the nearest
railroad, and the rail rates were SO high
that shipments seemed impossible. The
oil was also new to the market, which
made it hard to sell. In spite of all
these obstacles, the works were improved
and last year a refinery was erected and
the manufacture of several grades of
lubrieating oils was commenced. The
success of this venture led to the forma-
ton of companies to sink other wells,
and now there is quite an extensive oil
industry in the region, which is known
as the Salt Creek oil field.
The old flashes at 246 degrees, and is
SAID to be the best natural lubricant
known. TIL yield this year is expected
to be about $4,000 barrels, and as the
present Pre- $ sats value w 9f the he oil is s. per barrel,
for an emory. field. The freighting be-
tween the wells and the railway is lone
by contractors one of whom harnesses
wagons coupled together. The three
leading wagons are for oil, while the
fourth is a house on wheels, containing
a spring bed, stove, tablet, lockers and
all the necessities for passing the night
in a comparatively comfortable manner
st. Louis Globe-DeTnocrat.
C~OntrabaDd antiquities.
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antiquities offered for sale to the Louvre
Museum, in Paris, a splendid collection of
ancient silver vases from Italy Of Greek
the Il it London n0 NEWS" Th sas MUSEUM I Mn1'eT wa ln
unable to pay the price asked-f2o,o 600
and declined the bargain. The italian
this, has taken proceedings, under the
Pacca law, against Slgnor Di Frisco. the
owner. of these antiquities. The latter
Is a large land owner at Bosco Reale.
He secretly made excavations on his estate
and found twenty-eight silver vases of re-
mote antiquity.
iting owners OF antiquities from sending
them out of the country without leave
or, rather, on account Of this law, which
ing anything like their natural price in
the impoverished country, Signor Di Frisco
smugled his find cut Of Italy and offered
it. to a Paris dealer for $1,000. Continuing,
silver vases, which duly Joined their fell
lows in Paris, and the whole lot was
MS search, he found other
Offered to the Louvre. The Italian Min
lister of Education throws interesting light
on the facilities which undergrad officials
are supposed to afford to Illicit exporters
of antiquities. He issues q notification that
should any officials be found to have con-
nived at this latest evasion of the Pacca
law, they will be criminally prosecuted.
For Eoys, Guidance.
Don't be deluded into the belief that II
is smart to know, things that you wouldn't
like to tell your mother writes Ruth
shmo in an article on ''Tha Boy OF
Mine,f' in March Ladies' Home Journal.r
Don't think 1t is smart to listen to stories
that are not nice and which are about
women. Gentlemen never unite in derid-
ing women-that is a popularity of cads.
Never read a book hat you could not
share will your sister. and never look at
hung in her room. What? You think
somebody will call you 'girly'? Oh. no.
my dear boy. If anything is said about
your conduct there will be approbatjon
given you, and the chances are thai the
older man Will say of that younger nne
who is properly modest, Brown IS a nice
fellow; l should like him to come and see
my daughters" 1t is not necessary for
you to see the folly of anything. That IL
an exploded theory. Why should Won sew,
a crop of wild oats? Why not sew a cron
of wheat and get a harvest worth havinpa
From day to day, my boy. you make IN
the story of your life. and it is The lifie
honest things that will make you a man. |
mentally as well as physically
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