People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Oil Found Near Redfield, Kan. [ARTICLE]

Oil Found Near Redfield, Kan.

Fort Scott, Kas., May B.—Considerable excitement was caused in the western part of this (Bourbon) county yesterday by the striking of a strong flow of coal oil at a depth of but nineteen feet on the farm of M. W. Twiner, three miles south of Redfield. He was drilling- for water.