Unpardonable Curiosity.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 279, 28 March 1889, Page 3

Unpardonable Curiosity.

[to the editor.] Sir, —I was pleased to see by the report of the Pacific Oil Company in your valuable paper, that we are to have the vital question settled at last, and in a very short space of time. The pipes are to be drawn, and in a fortnight from the date of meeting the oil is to flow. Now there can be no doubt about the oil—we have been assured so many x imes that the well is at least a hundred barrel well. It should be a red-letter day in Cook County when the oil flows. And we are so near to the time, only a fortnight, and a week of that time gone. We shall jump for very joy to think of the untold wealth which we are to see flow in a week's time. Now I have made all arrangements to take the family for a trip to see the new wonders, and promised all the girls new frocks the moment we hear of the oil flowing. Oh! how they all hope for the next week to pass and then to the oil well they are all to go! I have tried to explain how it is that the pipes have to be lifted, because one of the pipes near the bottom of the well has got ovalled, and young Bill asks how is it that the oil does not rise up now ? He says he has seen water run through iron pipes, oval, round, and square, and how is it that the oil will not rise in an oval pipe. I tried to explain to him how the oil being a little thick, the pipe must be quite round or the oil would not rise. I could only settle the matter with him by telling him that that was what Mr Weaver said at the meeting, and he ought to know. Perhaps you, Mr Editor, can throw a little light on the matter. I consoled them all by assuring them that at the end of another week all would be quite clear, as Mr Weaver has again received a vote of confidence, and they might be sure after so much doubt being expressed, and now all being cleared up, ana only a fortnight to wait, all would be quickly settled, and oil is to flow in a week!—l am, &c., Pacific.