One photograph from Emerson
Bouton's Shandelee collection, volume two, would seem to be out of place. On
page twelve, photograph 47-b, is an image of an oil rig. This obviously could
not be a scene from Shandelee......or could it?
"Two car loads of mining machinery arrived at the Livingston Manor
station this week, to be used in boring for oil on the Eastman farm near the
top of Shandelee hill. Ernest Flurschutz, who owns the Manor Bottling Works,
is engineering the enterprise. Mr. Flurschutz has long had this project in
view, and has investigated conditions pretty
thoroughly. He is extremely enthusiastic and hopes to strike oil at
once."
Sullivan County Review, July 1, 1915 - fred
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