Persuasive Essay Topics of Today and Yesterday: Crazy Oil Man
Inhabits Defunct Oil Rig. Gets Rich Prospecting For Pearls.
Persuasive Essay Topics of Today and Yesterday is living
proof that there really is nothing new under the sun. Three
articles 1905, 1906, and 1910 form a little tribology of
interesting oil news from the days before the internet, and the
days when people actually wanted oil rigs in their back
yards.
The World of the Now
Three articles 1905, 1906, and 1910 form a little trilogy of
interesting oil news from the days before the internet, and the
days when people actually wanted oil rigs in their back
yards. Today, you'll be hard pressed to find Camp City, New
Mexico, and though you still might find a hermit or two, it's
unlikely they'll be hiding in plain sight in Illinois. The
river mentioned looks like not much more than the overflow from
the lovely Mississinewa Lake impoundment, and pearls are what
the Japanese make these days. As for our last offering, oil
oozing from the top of a certain casing in the news lately
causes a different type of furore than that suffered by the good
folks of old Alamogordo town. Some of those folks to this day
drag out their old mineral rights deeds in hopes of making good
money on old oil.
The World of the Then
Historical material from the much remembered but very dead
newspapers cited below. Rewritten, keeping the essential
essence. All three articles by Staff Writers.
OIL AND MINERAL COMPANY TO WORK
Info from the Palestine Daily Herald January 31, 1906.
Palestine Citizens Organize to Try Again to Develop the
Local Oil Field
About thirty citizens of Palestine have organized the
Anderson County Oil and Mineral Company and have
taken out a charter with a capital stock of $5000. The purpose
of the company is to develop the oil and mineral fields of
Anderson county.
Mr. J W Ozment, one of the chief promoters of the company
returned home last night from Houston where he closed a deal for
an oil rig and as soon as the machinery arrives tho company will
begin operations.
The scene of operation will be in the old field formerly
tried by Davey and Company some two or three years ago
The new company means business and if there is any oil in that
territory they propose to develop the fact with
out delay.
HIDES IN OIL RIG, SEEKS PEARLS IN RIVER
Info from the Washington Times August 27, 1905
Aged Man Found Living as Her Hermit Near Marion Exhibits Fine
Collection
MARION Ind. Aug 26. An aged man giving his name as John
Swanson has been found living as a hermit in an
abandoned oil rig in a woods near the river bank bank about
three miles northwest of Marion.
The man refused to say where he came from but said domestic
trouble had caused him to seek a life of seclusion. He said he
had been living in the oil derrick for about a year and had
succedeed in evading everyone until the oil operators chanced to
call at an unguarded moment. He said he had never built a fire
at night for fear of attracting attention.
He is engaged in pearl hunting along the river and exhibited
a large collection of much value. He said he had
been sending them to a New York dealer and had a shipment ready
to forward. Members of his family he said were
searching for him but he did not desire that they find him.
OIL FIND IN MEXICO CAUSES FURORE
Info from the Los Angeles Herald May 1, 1910 (The date
difference has to do with the news was still being delivered by
the Pony Express to and from the outlying areas.
ALAMAGORDO, N. M , April 30
Oil oozing over the top of a casing from a 1800-foot well at
Camp City, ten miles south of Alamogordo, on the E. P. & S. W.,
set the whole country wild with excitement. From the way claims
are being filed, the whole country south of El Paso promises to
be blanketed with claims in a short time.
News of the discovery of the oil spread so fast that the
valley is full of prospectors, pouring in afoot, on horse back,
in wagons, buggies and automobiles and on trains from every
direction.
The northbound Golden State limited from El Paso bore several
passengers for the new field, and this fast train
stopped tor the first time in history at Camp City to let off
passengers. Camp City promises to become a second
Beaumont, with Alamogordo and El Paso alike profiting, if the
oil only proves to be even half that is expected of it. The
indications are that it is going to be more and that the oil is
plentiful, but nobody can yet say. It is a mere guess until the
well can be opened.
The oil was found in a 300-foot well that was being put down
for artesian water: there was no dream of oil, and
the discovery of oil has acted like an electric spark upon the
people—they are scrambling: to file upon the surrounding land
and were up all night staking out claims. Five thousand acres
have already been filed upon.
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