So long as oil gladdens the proud Tennesseean!
Map
of
VENANGO COUNTY
Pennsylvania
EARLY OPERATORS ON OIL CREEK.
WM. BARNSDALL.
GEO. H. BISSELL. DR. F. B. BREWER.
DR. A. G. EGBERT. JONATHAN WATSON. COL. E. L. DRAKE.
DAVID EMERY. CHARLES HYDE.
DAVID CROSSLEY.
V.
A HOLE IN THE GROUND.
The First Well Drilled for Petroleum—The Men Who Started Oil on Its Triumphant March—Colonel Drake’s Operations—Setting History Right—How Titusville was Boomed and a Giant Industry Originated—Modest Beginning of the Greatest Enterprise on Earth—Side Droppings that throw Light on an Important Subject.
“Was it not time that Cromwell should come?”—Edwin Paxton Hood.
“He who would get at the kernel must crack the shell.”—Plautus.