Show KENT KENTUCKY ROCK RK RO K OIL CURES RHEUMATISM RHEU lA 1 Industry That hat Once Once Flourished in tho Blue Grass State Now Extinct r. r DANVILLE Ky MarSh Margh Cumber Cumberland land land distinction of being the the first county in Kentucky In which which oil was dl discovered covered TwO Tw miles niiles from irom county o nty se seat Ceat t Jf of f Cumberland are thirty or or forty holes from which oil was wa taken until twenty-five twenty years ears ago It was' was called rock oil and had a a. wide i sale In the United States and England I as a for tor rheum rheumatism It sold at 75 73 cents per pint and was refined and put on ott the market by the American Rock Oil company company of New ew York which began to operate the territory in 1820 and continued continued continued con con- until 1877 1811 when the wells went dry |