Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — Great Oil Gusher. [ARTICLE]

Great Oil Gusher.

Tuesday’s Lafayette Courier says that a wonderful oil well has been struck on the Joseph Bird farm, near Hartford City, Ind. The article says that the well Is regarded as the most phenomenal ever drilled and the record breaker of the world. Two donkey pumps which have a capacity for handling seven thousand barrels a day are unable to take care of the output. Experts sa that the well is a crevice freak, and the enormous output cannot be maintained any length of time. The well is owned by the Standard Oil Trust and at the preseqt time they are realizing about $6,000 a day from it.