Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1920 — WABASH COUNTY FARMERS DISCOVER VEINS OF OIL [ARTICLE]

WABASH COUNTY FARMERS DISCOVER VEINS OF OIL

Farmers near. Wabash, Ind., are in the throes of fn oil boom, equal tn any which ever struck the Southern oil producing states. Oil was first discovered in paying pools a month ago at the Jap Wilson farm and since then ten wells have been drilled. Today these wells are producing 2,000 barrels a day. Officials of. the Standard Oil Company will go there some time this week to contract for the entire supply, which wiH be piped to the pumping station in the northern part of the county,; and then on to the company’s refineries in New Jersey. A Pennsylvania Oil company has contracted to drill thirty wells on tiie J. C. Henry farm at the edge of the Wabash-Grant county line, and paid 156,000 for the lease on the land last week. > Work on the first of the thirty wells to expected to be started Monday afternoon.