New Britain herald., 1928-02-13
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ter. It was just sheer luck-blind luck you might call it---that led me to stumble onto tn thing.
 AS you all know from what I've said at various time" lie contin- ued after lighting a cigaret, I've had more or less experience in th sinking of oil valls. Father put down three on our place back home, all fairly good producers for year or so. Then they went dry. Ii was the oil game that eventually broke father.
 T guess you know. all of you. here tha. peculiar rocky fornn- tion they call tn Devils Leap is located. some six miles out in th hills. wont out there yesterday morning to hunt rabbits. It's regu lar jungle all around tn place. bur a good spot for rabbits. so l pushed my way in.
 Suddenly I came to an enormous pile. what l took at first to be a small hill. Then I saw it was species of ore piled up like a pyra- mid, and I remembered hearing or an old abandoned mine in that To- cality. I found th mine which IS said to have yielded small Guan1l- ty of silver. but not enough to mak2 it a paying proposition. After sink ing a. shaft the company quit. That vas back in 1860.
 Tt vas while ] was proving around that I discovered oil signs. An hours investigation revealed positive proof to me of big deposits of oil rock. A hundred feet from the ore pile the ground is perfect ouagmire, where the oil has been forced to the surface and then seeped back agtin. Any oil man would see at a glance the presence o1 immense quantities of oil. l put III valuation of tn property at slo.oo" in mentioning tn tax sale. In reality. it is worth many times that.
 Well, tn upshot of my discov- cry was that when l got back 10 town and went to tho courthouse 10 find out who owned the property, ] learned 1t was to be sold for taxes. All it embraces is about 10 acres, being just spur marking off a sur yeyed tract or section which Is cwned by New York parties. Tn owner of this 10 acres, I found, had been young man named Davidson, who was killed in France during tn war. His only relative. a mother. died a year ago without leaving any will. That's how if comes tn piece is being sold for taxes which haven't been paid for more than 70 years. It has been I'D for sale time and again, but nobody considered 1t worth even tn taxes due on it.
 The result of Jacks discovery. after | brief investigation by Peter Justin the following day was the decision by Tony and hi into attend ! the tax title sale. This resulted in the two combining their capital anh purchasing the property. It lel' Jack with $40 in the bank, and Tony with less than S2o.
 i on tie Monday following fhe ! purchase Of Jacks Oil Well" as If came to b. called among th"msel'rS q strike was declared al the glass works. and the three, Peter. Jack I and Tony. suddenly found them selves without work. Jhat vas O, ! the last day Of November. The neN' day saw the beginning of a sno"
 storm that lasted week. Tn th' hills ti.e snow was io feet detp 1T places.
 Then came Baby No !, and fh' 1 wolf that had been looking m ~" window Of the Stuart home onl' once Tn while. now poked his pGl' head through the kitchen door an'
 refused tc be driven away. \ bus gry, c1davcrous wolf. that .Not
 Jills optimism couldn't down.
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