Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1901 — Oil Strack in Illinois. [ARTICLE]

Oil Strack in Illinois.

For several years it has been generally known that the southern portion of Coles county, Illinois, lay within the oil and gas belt which extend* from Findlay, Shelby county, east to the Indiana fields, but no particular attention was paid to thb fact until a. few days ago, when three prominent Indiana experts and capitalists, who'' have Inspected the nounced their findings. At Findlay both gas and oil have been struck. At Windsor one well on the Smyser farm was opened that expelled a current of gas, which, when lighted, could be seen here, a distance of twelve mile*. Last Tuesday, while drilling oh th* Sargent farm, crude oil was struck, which readily burned.