Year: 1865

DUAk hAGLE - nave lCaOuCo VIC Aoho Va
oil, having taken safer route than the Erie.


Pennsylvania is a good sized State and it
takes some time to get here.


When you do get here you wish you hadn't
come.


There is plenty of oil--and that is all, ex-
cept lots of people.


1 made for " Snaky Run" the most likely
place for oil. .......
They call these places Runs. because every
body who is after oil runs here.


Every man you meet is the President Di-
rector or Engineer of a petroleum company.


The natives who are white people, and re-
semblc country folks, live by selling land
and green horns.


They have system in both transactions.
They double the price of land every morning


If you know anybody who has got few
vacant lots that he wants to sell, tell him to
bring them out here.


The folks are so busy looking for oil they
haven't time to build houses, and everybody
is afraid to put up house for fear that he
might cover an oil we'll


Consequently the Hotels are little crowd
ed. ..


The Muggins Hotel, where I pat up, is
much So


Muggins. the proprietor is the most ac-
colnmodatng man you ever saw. A city rail-
road conductor isn't a circumstance to him.


He has only got six beds in the house, but
he is always ready to take in everybody.


He took me in.


Also two hundred more petroleum pill
grims.


The sleeping accommodations are various.
We got to bed by platoons.


When the first platoon gets asleep they are
carefully taken out of bed and hung over q
clothes line The second platoon 60 through
the same process until every body is provided
for. ... ... ...I.


Prcferring to sleep alone, l slept on the
mantel-piece, with the skuttle for pillow


As l observed, land is precious here.


bought lot, of ten inches by four, for
three hundred thousand dollars, and COM
menced operations.


The next thing is to commence boring.


You want sharp bore. A public lecturer
won't do. Neither will skating gmblet


took brace and bit, and went in. Got
down about seven hundred thousand feet into
the bowels of the land, when l came to an
impediment.


Found that had struck the pre-Adamite
rock, of the ossifed strata Of the Siluran for
nation.


This is geology, and you perhaps won't un-
dcrstand it, but will explain it all in the
paper to the Historical society am about
writing.


Got candle and went down to sec about
it.


found big Megatherium about six hun.
dred feet long, and nine hundred wide, in q
capital state of preservation.


got him out and shall send him ON by
express.


Went on boring through forty thousand
feet of sandstone. Here encountered a strange
smell of sulphur, which alarmed the native
who sold me the land, and to ease his consci.
ence he gave me half the money back, and
wanted me to stop boring.


Told him I was bound to keep on until
struck lie. or came out on the other side ol
creation.


Bored on. Went through about sixty thou
sand feet more, when suddenly the brace and
bit went in, and there was grand report
like that made by Buffers powder boat which
didn't blow up Fort Fisher.


Things were slightly confused for time
A section of Pennsylvania went up, and
went with it. l guess must have como
down again, as the next idea I had, was find
ing myself comfortably hung over the clothes
line at the Muggins Hotel.


An investigation into the matter showed
that had struck through to gas factory ii
China, which had exploded at both ends o
tho bore, killing half million Chinese.


The casualties on our side were confined
to one native and small dog.
The Megatherium had also disappeared 3
probably scared off by the explosion.
haven't given up yet. The folks herr
are very encouraging they will stick to
man as long as he has got cent left, and
never knew Muggins to turn a man out of hi
hotel who had the means to pay his bill.


A kind hearted chap offered mo anothe
piece of land, the size of stove-plate, within
a mile and half of seven hundred barre
well, for the reasonable figure Of half
million and two-thirds of the oil.


concluded that boring for oil is not s
profitable as bleeding the public. l shal
start an oil company on more liberal term
than any yet offered.


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