Show the coquette well one of tho most famous of the oil farms that were developed in the early days of the petroleum petrol sum excite ent on oil creek wa egbert farm near this place dr egbert of franklin and his partner had between them 1000 which was an immense price for altas it bad not yielded enough under cultivation 10 pay taxes in 1864 they astruck on it they had several good wells but none that compared with the great bushers gushers that had spouted their 2000 and barnets barrets day further down the creek egberts superintendent had brother vrho lived in an eastern town lie was in love with a young lady of the place who was noted in the neighborhood ai a great roquette rob uette one in the early fiill of S a troupe of indians geive an exhibition in the village the man and the young lady in attended it together after ue had eko orld her home he faist d tn unity that offered a apil her to become lua wife ie him U went to bed dieb he tin long entertained the idea hib fortune in the oil region and before he retired thai night he had on carrying out the idea further dt lay before mornin he had a dream lie thought tir in u wild mountainous rl alice ice akine and friendless sudden ly in indian hideous in war paint pricing from a thicket and rushed him with hf tomahawk ani al th dreamer was unarmed lip tied to KIYO tl bv light out ha uld not he had himo him o f to his fate when another person appeared on the scene I wua the coquette who had rejected hia suit she had a rifle he quickly placed tho capon in the lalieu loyer n hancks and appeared I ue lover co verel the adian with th diflo and fired when the clearah atway the indian waa gone ha had stood there gushed from the ground a tream ot oil of great volume ll 11 flowed down over the land in a miniature river the aning man awoke from his dream it mad a dieal upon him ue interpret edit as a good omen or him not only in buti nesa mi itteM t in hi love affair fie departed for oil creek next day and went firca buthe farm where hir working ane daty the ing the egbert frn suddenly the latter stopped and looked about him with an exclamation of this s the very spot said he ahat aw in my dream lie then related his bream to bis the pot was not con alered Bl ered a one for striking oil but the dream of the young man o im the superintendent that he determined to sink awell thorp ahn rc uh wa awaited with inter eliby the two brothers the drill at depth of feet struck ft literal river of oil the rich deposit spooled out of the earth at tho rate of 2000 barrah a day the w ll 11 became at once it was given the at the of the young lady in its boang drilled thousands Thou sunds of persons hacked to the farm to see it and a ice of tea cents head was charged for a sight at it pou rings its wealth into dr egbert t for ulten month dr egbert made an immense corinne fr mit bud one interest in it for H ge S to the yo ins man wh e in aln lal to the discovery Uis covery ol 01 ali biet wah with this ua to ith the fur dr panier in ft few a hand kOine fortune he r turned lo 10 hi natava village alil loang the young lady who lad refused bis and learning that cinco hy he bad ceased entirely to go into goe iely he proposed t ht ag tah time ho ya alq h abo former shortly alters ard the well ceased oil yol lyell to aniau iu raper and then entirely exhausted A fw rotting umbers the derrick that alove the once failous well it now ahat marks the abere the alter of oil bupt forth |