Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — From the Oil Field. [ARTICLE]

From the Oil Field.

Medaryville Advertiser: The recently finished oil well on Section 28 in Gillam township, which we shortly mentioned last week, proves to be of greater magnitude than we at first supposed. When oil was first struck gas forced the oil about ten feet above the casing. The well has been tubed and connected with the pumping apparatus and in less than two hours a 90-barrel tank was filled up to the brim, and pumping operations had to be suspended for want of tankage. The oil men and especially those of the Byrd Syndicate are considerably excited and elated over this new strike and one of them predicts that the so-called Medaryville oil field will yet be the banner oil field in the United States. This is the third good well on the southwest quarter of section A low estimateplaces the well at 300 barrels per day. Mr.E. T. Mudge has just completed his second well on his 180 farm one and one-half miles northwest of Medaryville and found the brown shale at 80 feet, the oil sand at 104 and the oil at 109 feet which gives showing sufficient for pumping. Mr. Mudge feels quite good over the results. The American Oil Co. is still drilling near Wheatfield and also west of Francesville and reports the completion of several good producers.