DESERTED VILLAGES IN PENNSYLVANIA.
One of the most startling features in the Pennsylvania oil region is the number of deserted villages, which have been caused by the exhaustion of oil wells. Pithole is a remarkable example of oil excitement, Barely eighteen years ago stood a- city of 20,000 inhabitants with churches, theatres, hotels, daily"'newspapers, pipe lines, railroad and telegraph offices, all the appliances of a busy city 'Now,' says a recent traveller through that •region, 'all that appears is a log cabin, the dismantled wing of an old hote), some decaying timbers and a little clearing in the forest, so saturated with oil and salt water that nothing will grow upon it, A poor, .demented old man is now the only nhabitant.' 1 ' I
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1918, 18 February 1885, Page 2
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124DESERTED VILLAGES IN PENNSYLVANIA. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1918, 18 February 1885, Page 2
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