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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. n IH.wrs U*t hara w«kto4 all IwOtn—u Catsrrh. RRPJiooSfoIh Cures dyspepsia LIPPMAN BKUS, Proprietors, Dro/jglste, Lljfmu'i Block, SAVAKII AH, GA. For aalo by the DAVENPORT DRUG COMPANY, Americas, Ga. Labor-j_ ESSrMS DIMINISHES DANGER TO LIFE gMQTHERfig CHILD "■■To >\9THEKS"' s ^~ souo ov K. oaottoisTft.^ ^flDri£W°. I ?»°«%5' r 0R Qo.r ATLANTA. GA JAPANESE CURE A guaranteed Cure for Piles of whatever kind or degree—Er ornal. Internal, Blind or Bleeding, Itchir g, Chronic, Recent or Hereditary. $100 i box; 6 boxes, $5.00. Sent by mail, prepaid, on reoeipt of price. We guarantee to c ire any case of Piles. Guaranteed and sole inly by ITH* DAVEN.’ORT DRUG CO.. Wholesale asd Retail Druggists, Americas, Ga. Samples free. feb2l-d&w1yr Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, and all Pat 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 charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. A Pamphlet. “How to Obtain Patents,” with names of actual clients in your State, county, or town, sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. Opposite Patent Office, Washington, 0. C. A. T. CURRY, Real Estate, Insurance, STOCK AMD BONO BROKER. Cordele, Ga. apl8-ly-d-w 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. G 0 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. miis rr*sp* | IT TASTES COQ.D.... Ji- 'A not ” J 1 LN( 9 Ind 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 **“