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THE AMERICUS DAILY TiMES-RECORDER: SUNDAY. APRIL 20, 1891.
PETROLEUM’S RISE
STORY OF THE DISCOVERY AND
GROWTH OF THE OIL FIELDS.
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We guarantee to c ire any case of Piles.
Guaranteed and sole inly by
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Wholesale asd Retail Druggists,
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Samples free. feb2l-d&w1yr
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ent business conducted for Moderate Fees.
Our Offlcs Is Opposite U.S. Patent Office,
and we can secure patent In less time than those
remote from Washington.
Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip
tion. We advise. If patentable or not, free of
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Drunkenness
** Liquor Habit.
Liquor Habit.
•tunewuuo jMUc/suro/riats
ft RAISES GOLDEN SPECIFIC
Dean bj given In coffee, tea, or In articles of food,
S^^IBSBStSiKgrS'tSS
ousts formaUon
f°r sale by Dr. E. J. Eidridge
Americus, Ga.
H the best known remedy.
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Kuarantecd nbeolutely hnrmlcM.
prescribed by phyelclana. B«t Hr*
(tti each[bottle. Frioo |t
Meet ■
foKefree withenebbottle. Frleol
■>ld by dniRKl'tn, Bewore ol Sot*
•Ittntjjy^nnijCherajOOjWdjjJLOjt^
bold in Amorlcus by Cook’i I’barmitoy,
v i, l’; 1< iriilge, Fleetwood * Runnell, J.
■r- Hall and Davenport Drug Company.
The Land an Which the First Wall W.i
Found Wn, Traded for a Cow—Many
Men Were Rained Before Fortune, Were
Made—Name, of Some Early Well..
Very few people are cognizant even
in western Pennsylvania of the rapidity
of development in the petroleum busi
ness from the time, thirty-seven years
ago, when it was known as Seneca oil.
Active operations began in 18.18, when
Col. Drake, of New Haven, was em
ployed to sink an artesian well for Bis-
sell & Eveleth, who had leased the Titus
ville oil springs in 1854 from Brewer,
Watson & Co., paying them $5,000 for a
ninety-nine year lease.
A few years before the land nad been
traded to a man named Chase for a cow.
At first Bissell & Eveleth had trenches
dug, which filled with water and oil,
and this was pumped into vats. The
well drilled by Drake struck oil at a
depth of 09J feet. It September it
pumped forty barrels a day, which sold
at 50 cents a gallon. It liegan to hurt
the coal oil distilleries which made oil
from shale and cannel coal.
Operations spread down Oil creek, and
in December. 1850, a well was struck at
the Buchanan farm, near Rouseville, but
it was a small one. Mr. Harper states
that tho first crude oil delivered in Pitts
burg was from the Albion well, on the
Allegheny river, owned by Phillips, Frew
& Co. This well made fifty barrels a
day. The oil sold at 30 cents a gallon,
with the provision that the barrels bo
returned. Tho machinery, supplies and
men necessary to drill the well were
shipped in tho old canal packet Crystal
Palace.
WHEN WELLS MULTIPLIED.
In 1800 the petroleum trade began to
bo recognized as a business worth some
thing more than curious mention, but
ita magnitude had not impressed itself,
for tho peoplo rated production of crude
in gallons and not in barrels. There
wore no oil exchanges to rouse pnblic at
tention. Some big wells mado their ap
pearance, hot not many. The Hamil-
ton-McClintock, two miles above Oil
City, started off at sixty gallons a min
ute, and was worth 23 cents a gallon at
the wells. The Economites began to
rake in shekels at Tidionte, and refineries
began to spring np in various places.
Crude sold in this city at 00 cents a gal
lon.
Royalty to land owners, now ranging
from ono-eighth to one-fonrth delivered
in pipe lines, then ranged from one-
fonrth to three-fourths, and tho oil was
furnished to tho land owner in iron
hooped barrels, which ranged in price
from $2.50 to $3.35 each. This arrange
ment bankrupted soino operators in 1802,
when tho price of crude dropped to 10
cents a barrel, and they allowed many
thousands of barrels to flow into Oil
creek and down the Allegheny river. As
Senator Ingalls might say, their irides
cent dreams of wealth were speedily
dissipated. In September three-quarters
of tho oil in barrels furnished by tho
operators was paid for the leaso of a lot
aeventy-five feet front at Titusville.
In 1861 the greatest wells ever struck
wero brought in on Oil creek. One in
Bntler county, on the Marshall farm,
somo years ago made a larger flow at the
outset, but it did not hold oat long. The
breaking oat of the rebellion and conse
quent panic prostrated petroleum busi
ness in the early part of the year, but a
revival of tho industry took place dur
ing the summer as the prospect began to
grow for increased uses for oil. In
August them were 800 wells between
Oil City and Titnsville. In September
the Phillips No. 2, on the Tarr farm, was
strnck. Its first day's production was
4,000 barrels. The Empire was also flow
ing 2,500 a day. The oil was so plenty
that wells were plugged, when they
could lie thus restrained., bat many
thousands of barrels were allowed to run
into the creek, and the Allegheny river
was covered with oil for many miles be
low Franklin.
GROWTH IN 1802.
The Woodford well on the Tarr farm
was struck in December and made 8,000
barrels a day. This well ruined the
Phillips No. 2. und in turn was ruined.
Tho water was not cased off in those
days, and when tho tubing was drawn
at tho Phillips tho Woodford began flow
ing b. a Tho same trouble developed at
that time on the upper end of tho Blood
farm. It is said the boring of tho Wood
ford well was instigated by pure hog-
gery, with intent to rnin the Phillips
No. 2. The attempt was successful, but
it didn’t pay tho owners of the Wood
ford. Tho Coquette was also one of the
old time spouters of great renown. She
was owned by Dr. Egbert, who now does
business at 90 Fourth avenue, this city.
The year 1862 was more memorable
for trade agitation regarding oil than
for largo wells. Tho market in this
Her Better Hatf Laughs at It Until the
Table* Are Turned.
I had been suffering with a soft com
for about a week before Mr. Bowser sud
denly inquired:
“What on earth makes you limp os
you walk?"
“I don't know as I did limp. I have a
corn, however.”
"Com—yes! Evidence that the fools
are not all dead yet! Good enongh for
you or any other woman who'll jam her
No. 5 feet into No. 3 shoes! Hope you'll
have a dozen!"
“Corns don't always come from wear
ing tight shoes.”
“Don't they? Bet you a million dol-
lars to a cent they do! Can’t come any [
other way; and a man or woman who
will wear shoes too small for them |
ought to be published to the pnblic at
large as non compos mentis.”
On the third day ufter the above con- 1
vernation I noticed that Mr. Bowser j
limped as lie came home to supper.
“Had a fall?” I queried.
“No, ma'am."
"I notice that you are lame.”
“Not much! I'm not one of the lame !
sort.”
I was sure that he was uncomfortable,
if not suffering, but nothing more was
said until nfter supper. Then ho dodged
up stairs, mid when I went up stairs
after him n few minntes later I fontid
him with his shoe and sock off.
“Foot was cold, and I thought I would
mb it a little, you know,” he explained.
“Sir. Bowser, you’ve got a com!”
“Never!”
■Tin certain of it! Hold your foot up
here!"
“Bosli! My foot is cold—that's all.
Com! I'd like to see a corn come on my
foot!”
"Hold it np here! Thore! There. Mr.
Bowser, if that isn't a com between your
toes, then I never saw one! It's a soft
corn. It comes from a tight shoe. Yonr
toes havo been pinched until they rnbbed
together.”
“It can’t he.”
“But it is. A man or woman who will
wear shoes too small for them ought”
He drove me ont of tho room and
locked the door, but I had the satisfae
tion of knowing that ho suffered for a
whole week. Tho .nearest lie owned np
to it was when ho came home and said;
“No wander I suffered. Carbuncles
are tender Slings. It would have pnt
yon in bed.”
“I never beard of a carbuncle between
the toes."
"Probably not. There are several
things in this world yon never heard of,
smart as yon are.”—Detroit Free Press.
ACKER’S
ENGLISH
REMEDY
■ lor Coughs. Colds sod Consumption. Is tsyond
.question thj c-ratest ol til modern remedies.
• II olllitops Cough In one night. It will check
S a Cold In a day. It urlll prevent Croup, rellete
1 Asthma, und CURE Consumption II token In
'lime. " Vou esn’t nRord to be nllhoul II.”
f",--'‘hcllls may save you $100 In Doc-
----ay stye your Idol ASK YOUR
. ' 'T. II tho little ones hero
GROUP
i^SOOPINC COUGH
t: IF. IT PROMPTLY. IT IS
POUND TO CURE. Sold In
ENGLAND lor Is. IXd. and
In AMERICA lor 26c. s bottle.
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| IT TASTES COQ.D....
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S. A. M. ROUTE.
Savannah, Americus & Montgomery R’y,
TIME TABLE
Taking Effect April 10, 1891
8 0(1 HI
1« no
10 27
2 15 1* I
Ive Birmingham.... srr, 7 00 p
Ive.... Chiltlcrsburg lve| 5 OA
ire Hylacnuga Ive 4 44*
3 2A
3 fin
A AI
III* Explanation.
One of the street denning commission
er's laborers was taken to task the other
day because he put in a bill for working
seventeen hours shoveling snow in one
lay. After a moment’s thought he gave
the following explanation: “Sure, I
started to work two hours before I be
gan, and I worked all dinner time when
I was resting, and nfter I left off ]
worked two hoars more, and that makes
the time.”
He got credit for seventeen hours’
work.—New York Morning Journal
A ru*hlnff Agent.
Peddler—Please, mum, I’m sellin'
polish to clean silver.
Housekeeper (sharply) — Don’t want
none.
Peddler—Very sorry, mum, but 1 see
the neighbors wus right. They said
there was no use callin’ here ’canso you
didn’t have no silver.
Housekeeper (wildly) — Gimme six
boxes.—New York Weekly.
An Apt Teacher.
Mr. Beauregard—I see yonr name on
this painting. Why, yon must have
painted itt
Miss Dili)’ Taunt—Yes; I have been
taking lessons of Mrs. Stillyfe for three
weeks.
Mr. Beauregard—I had no idea yon
could paint so beautifully.
Miss Dilly Taunt—Oh, I only did the
name!—Puck.
Our Servants.
Mistress—Jean, 1 nm getting tired of
yonr carelessness. Just look at all that
dost on the furniture; it has been lying
there six months at the least.
Valet (on his dignity)—Then it isn't
me as is to blame, for madame knows
very well that I have only had the honor
of being in her service for the last three
months.—Le Petit Pansien.
Shingles and Lumber.
a n Y e ~*f« now prepared to furnish Lumber
SSL ®*>l’i*le» on short notice, at tta
SB prices. Parties
WIGGINS * HERNDON,
country broke down this year, thongh a
gallon of refined cost in this city as much
as a barrel of crude docs today. The
cost of hauling was immense, and pipe
line projects began to take shape.
The teamsters and their friends in the
oil country wore a powerful party, and
they opposed tho pipe line proposition,
and some lines were destroyed In places
and there wero riots. Congress proposed
to lay a tax of five cents a gallon on
erode, more than twice what it sells for
now, und ten cents a gallon on refined,
and meetings of producers wero held to
protest Titusville was then tho center
for the producers. The cost of sending
a barrel of oil to New York was $7.45,
and steamboats charged $2 a barrel for
bringing it from Oil City to Pittsburg.
Crode ranged in price this year from 10
cents in January to $2.25 per barrel in
December at wells. Some people were
rained and otherm made colossal fortunes
thereby, but the Standard hadn’t been
born, and the surplus was only 100,000
bane)* in October.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
“It’s a bully site for a coal yard!"
“What ii?*
“Anthracite."—New York Herald.
. J,
■
Managing a Boy.
Mrs. Springs—How careful your little
boy is of bis health! My boy is con
stantly running out in all sorts of
weather without overcoat or shoes, no
matter what I say. How do you man
age?
Mrs. Briggs—When my boy catches
cold I give him cod liver oiL—New York
Weekly.
Identifying Him.
Maddox — Who is that dilapidated
looking individual?
Gazzam—That's a man named Haw
kins. Graduated at the head of his class
in college and delivered an eloquent vale
dictory on “The Secret of Success.”—
New York Sun.
Philosophical.
11 (M)
4 30 it
7 35
5 20 p
Betw’n
■Opelika
arr Columbus arr 11 45
Jve Columbus Ive II 20
arr Kllavllie arr t» «A
live * Kllavllie Ive a 60
arr American arr 8 2»
Ive Americus Ive 8 on
Ive Carrie le Ive 0 2»
jive Helena Ive! 3 A5
jive (Lyons Ive; 1 65
. Savannah arrj 7 40 p
..Charleston...
Montgomery and Americus, via Opelika
IA pm
ti 4Q arr Americas ......Ivej 8 2Q am
Between Montgomery and Amdricu*, via Colon
_ Springs and Columbus,
"7 40 a. ml Ive Montgomery.... arrj 7 pm
3 AO Jve Columbus arr 11 20
5 40 jarr Amnricus lve|_8 20 _
iietw’n Montgumery and Americns.via Enlaula
40 (
i i 1 ve M outcomery arr
uteo ...
11 itt Ive Kutaula .
12 20 p m Ive Albany arr
2 30 '— * *—
Between
00 p
18 i
Americas Ive
erica* and Jacksonville, vli
Ameriusc Tarr
« Americus i
injve"..'~.“
m Ive Helena
Close connect ton made at Montgomery for all
olnU in the Southwest, and at Americus for
points in the Southwest, and at Americus f<
Birmingham and all points in tho Northwest.
• Meal Stations.
Sleeping cars between Columbus and Savan-
isengers front Charleston destined to points
of Sovannah, change cars at C. & 8. Junc-
UIALL. E. 8. GOODMAN,
rlntenth ' “ " ‘
nab.
Basse n
west
tion.
W. N.MAR81
Gen. Superintendent.
Gen. Pass. Agent.
Americas, Ga. Americas, Ga.
J. M. CAKULAN, 8. E. Pass. Act.
Savannah, Ga. E. A. SMITH,
Western Pass. Agt., Bt. Louis, Mo.
M. D. ROYER. T. P. A,
Americus, Ga.
IIUriLUFi Nils,
JNO. T. ARGO. c. 8. A.,
Americus, Ga.
C. H. SMITH, G. E. '
Now York,IN. Y.
-THE
East Tennessee,
Virginia and
Georgia R’y
System.
—18 THE ONLY-
Short and DlrectLlneto the Morth, East or
This line Is conceded to be the best equipped
and runs the finest Pullman^ Bleeping Cars in
the South.
Elegant Pullman Sleeping Cars, between
Jacksonville and Cincinnati,
Titusville and Cincinnati,
Brunswick and Louisville,
Chattanooga and Washington,
Memphis and Now York,
Philadelphia and Now Oilcans,
Chattanooga and Mobile,
Atlanta and Chattanooga,
Without Change.
For any information address
B. W. WRENN, Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agt.
Knoxville. Tenn.
C. W. KNIGHT, Ass’t Gen. Pass. Agt.
Atlanta, Georgia.
PASSENGER SCHEDULE
Beorgia Soiilhem AHorida Ry.
SUWANEE RIVER ROUTE TO FLORIDA,
Taking Effect March 89,1801. Standard Time, 00th Meridian*
ttoiNVi WogfB.'
GOING HOtt’fH
? lo a
10 45 a m
11 00 a m
1 60 pm
3 2d p in
4 54 pm
8 53 p m
Atlas la Ar
Macon
Lv Macon Ar
Ar Cordele ......Ar
Ar Tlfton _
Ar Valdosta Ar
4r Lake filly Lv
, Jacksonville...................'Ey
8 16 arallO 10 p i
10 0A a ml
I Ar Ht. Augn«tl«a .
'EEE
lu UU 1
8 10 1
1 86 pm
If 01 pm
0 55 am
7 00 am
7 00 a m
1046 am
6 00 am
885 am
4 07 am
‘ 45am
12 23 a m
0 17 pm
TSTm
2 80 pm
Trains arrive and depart from union depot* In Maoon and Palatka and F. 0. A P.
depot In Jacksonville. .... . , ■-
Connection nerth bound and «ulh honnd !. mad. in Macon with train, of CentraK
end E. T. V. A G. railroad..
A.C.KNAPP. J.T. HOOK - I** HARRIS,^
Truffle Manager. General Pawenker Agent. Ticket Af
G.neral Ptuocng
HENRYUUSNSro.'T.andP. A.No 51# Mulberry 8L * Union!
Macon. Ga.
II. C. HODEH, J»..tloUcltln* Agent.# Kimball Block. Atlanta. Ga. „ „ .
L.C. CONOVA, C.T.A. K. T. RICH ARP. Agent, Union Depot. W.P.LAWBHE.T.P.A
Palatka, Fla.
JAMES MENZIE8, Roulhentern Agent, S# Weit Bay HL, JackeonvlUc, Fla.
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA
Soutnwestorn Division.
Correct Sohedule, No. 22, in Effect: April 12,1801
SAVANNAH U WESTERN DIVISION
Schedule No. 10, taking effect Apr. 12th, Ml,
No. 5, Between Savannah and Birmingham] No. &.
Dally. via Americus, Dally.
7 40pm Leave Savannah........Arrive 740pm
t 85
Lyons..
Amertous,...
Buena Vista,..
Arrive Columbus,....
100 a m
840am
635p m
k
“If yon gave 1cm expensive presents to
people yon couldirare better apartments
jiiyi these*"
“I know, bat X wouldn't get half go
many good dinners.”—Harper 1 . Boar.
It’s easy enough
—the Ball corset. That's be
cause it has coils of line wire
springs in the sides. They
clasp the figure closely, but
yield to every motion.
They “give”, but they come
back. So does your money
—if you’ve worn a Ball cor
set two or three weeks, and
find that you don’t like it.
Foraale by GEO. D. WHEATLEY.
No. 8
.Dally.
Faeaengcr
No. 6
Dally.
Past Mall
EAST BOUND.
No. 6
Dally
Fait Mall
No. 7
o Dally
Passengar
8:33a m
518 •*
6 30 •
10 60 "
530pm
566pm
235p m
4 18 “
686 ••
10 20 “
6 15a m
680 ••
Lv. Americas Ar.
Ar. Port Valley Lv.
•• Macon "
'• Atlanta *•
" Augusta “
*• Savannah , M
108pm
1183am
1020 “
710 ••
910 pm
0 87 p in
8 00 “
6 40 ••
216 •*
700am
6 40 “
No. 7
Dally
Passenger
U37 pm
1005
442 am
785 am
“N5T7-
Dally
No. 6
Dally.
Past Mall
WEST BOUND.
No. 6
Dally
Past Mall
No. 8
„ Daily
Pssscnjjer
1 6pm
ISO *•
112 **
720 "
Lv. Americas Ar.
Ar.. Bmlthvllla “
“ Kufnula “
** Montgomery Lv.
a to pm
180 **
1106 a m
7 40 a m
826a m
1230 “
1026 p m
780pm
No. 6
Dally
TO PLORIDA.
No.#
pally
No. ft
rally
037 p m
1005 “
1045 pm
460am
716 am
7 25am
1 lip m
iR -
640 •
L “‘ BmUhvn*. A “'
Ar Albany Lv.
“ Thomaavllla Lv
•• Wavcroaa “
•• Brunswick «•
“ JaekaoavtU. “
286pm
190 p m
12 20 p m
880am
833a.m
800 *
916 *•
lOlOp
760*
716
Hard Times to get Money
Solid Train, with Sleeping Cue Bet.een Savannah and Birmingham.
For further Information relative to UckeU,aehednla* ba.trontM.te. .te., apply to
A. T. MAXWELL, Ag.nl, J. c. MCKENZIE, Snp’t, B.T. CHARLTON, G»n. PaUvAg't.
America., Ga. Hmlthvllle, Ga. Savannah, Ga.
D. H. BYTHEWOOD, Divlllon Fate. Ag’L, Columbni.'Ga.
D D. CURRAN, Snp’t, Colnmbui, Ga. J. C. SHAW .Trav. Pam. Ag’L, Savannah Ga.
Americus Iron Works,
BUILDERS OF-
Ten Dollars saved la twenty dollars madat
My New Sprint Styles cannot be excelled,
and by calling on
M. FRIEND
YoncangataSlyllah Spring Suit at aroall
coat, and eatlafaction guaranteed.
OldKiprom Offlce Wand, iMBMW
aprU-l.no. (■!
Engines, Boilers, Cotton Gins,
Presses, Feeders qnd Condensers, Saw and Grist Mills;
Shingle Machines, Pipe and Pipe Fittings, Boiler
Feeders, Valves, Jets, Etc.
Shaftings, Hangers, Boxes and Pulleys
(^Special attention given to repairing all kinds of
Machinery. Telephone 79. w **“