MAJ. W. T. BAUM.
JACOB SHEASLEY. HENRY F. JAMES.
JAMES EVANS.
W. R. CRAWFORD. COL. JAMES P. HOOVER
DANIEL GRIMM.
VI.
THE WORLD’S LUBRICANT.
A Glance at a Pretty Settlement—Evans and His Wonderful Well—Heavy Oil at Franklin to Grease all the Wheels in Creation—Origin of a Popular Phrase—Operations on French Creek—Excitement at Fever Heat—Galena and Signal Oil-Works—Rise and Progress of a Great Industry—Crumbs Swept Up.
“The race was on, the souls of the racers were in it.”—Gen. Lew Wallace.
“Wild rumors are afloat in Jericho.”—J. L. Barlow.
“Carthage has crossed the Alps; Rome, the sea.”—Victor Hugo.
“There shall be no Alps.”—Napoleon.
“We must not hope to be mowers