Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1912 — DEEPEST WELL IS DRILLED [ARTICLE]

DEEPEST WELL IS DRILLED

■New Shaft to Go 6,000 Feet Near Pittsburg, Pa., to Find What’s < There. Pittsburg, Pa. —Oil and gas producers in this part of the country are greatly interested in a well that ia now being drilled on the Geary farm, in Washington county, between McDonald and Candor. The well is being put down by the People’s Gas Company, a subsidiary company of the Standard Oil, and is to be drilled 6,000 feet deep, to find out what is in the earth at that great depth. Everything in the equipment for drilling the well is double strength. The derrick is eighty-four feet high. It will take almost a year to complete the well, even if the drillers have no bad luck. r