Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — Going for Oil and Gas. [ARTICLE]

Going for Oil and Gas.

A company of home people, consisting of M. A. Dilts, John H. Weaver, William Babel, William S. Huddleston, M. M. Hathaway and Jacob Keller, has been organized for the purpose of developing the gas and oil interests of Stark and Pulaski counties. The work of procuring leases for a sufficient number of acres will commence at once. With this accomplished wells will be sunk on the various tracts leased and the gas and oil interests be thoroughly tested and developed. It was first intended to assist some Chicago parties to procure these leases, but fearing that they were representatives of the Standard Oil company, and that the people would meet with the same fate farmers in the southwestern part of the county experienced at the hands of strangers, the home people, who have large land interests themselves and are personally interested in the very best possible results, concluded to take the matter in their own hands and push them to a speedy test and finish.—Winamac Democrat Journal.