Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1916 — Brook Reporter Says Thayer Oil Well is a Failure. [ARTICLE]

Brook Reporter Says Thayer Oil Well is a Failure.

According to the Brook Reporter the oil well which was shot at Thayer recently did not prove to be a very good producer. The article follows: “The big well at Thayer was ‘shot’ on Saturday afternoon and did not prove to be a producer and w’e underMantl that the company Is going to dri 11 deeper. Th’e well had been bored to a depth of 852 feet and about 30 feet in the Trenton rock. Origin small quantities was brought up with- the water as it was pumped out to enable the nitroglycerine txKtW placed for the shooting. Quite a quantity of gas poured from the well all the time and the management claims that if the well does not prove successful as an oil producer they can bore several of them and use the gas profitably. Within a hundred feet of this one is another which was put down about 9 years ago and which has the gas piped to the summer home of Bill Grant nearby and he uses it to heat and light his home. “The expert ‘shooter’ came from Portland, Ind., and brought the deadly explosive in an automobile. Five cans of it were lowered to the bottom of the well and when all Was ready a heavy bar of iron was dropped into the well. It was ,a moment ■ before the dull boom shook the ground and then a full minute before the roar of the water, sand and gas reached tne surface, where it was thrown a hundred feet into the air. Alter it had subsided the crowd rushed in but it was too-dark to-see results and nothing could be determined until the pumps got to work the next day, when the results above noted were determined.”