Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1920 — DRILLING TEST OIL WELL IN SOUTH PULASKI COUNTY [ARTICLE]

DRILLING TEST OIL WELL IN SOUTH PULASKI COUNTY

'County Democrat.- —The actual work^-of -drilling began this week in the test Well being sunk by the Star City Oil & Gas company. 'Wie machinery and equipment arrived some days ago and was hauled to the location from Thornhope. The eighty-foot derrick was put up in short order, and the drill is now on its way downward. The location is a half-mile south and a half mile west o fthe Pepper school house in Indian Creek township, nine miles straight south of Winamac. It is on land owned by Michael Ruff. Because of the difficulty in securing coal, enough wood was cut on the place last winter to drive the drilling machinery. The contract calls “for a hole about fifty feet into trenton rock, which, it is expected, will be struck about 4,000 feet below the surface. The driller expects to reach the depth within a couple' of weeks if they have no bad luck.