Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1888 — Things Seen in Russia. [ARTICLE]

Things Seen in Russia.

Statistics of the oil business in Russia have just reached this country,'TOSS 1 American oil men are studying them with anxiety. They throw a new ljght on the business of Russia, and too plainly that the Baku districts are a most dangerous rival of the American fields. The output of many of the Russian fields is prodigious, and far eclipses anything ever heard of in this country. oil producers have claimed to have no fears oh Russian competition, but with the new information on the industry in that country they are talcing another view of if. t~There is no better way to bring this act to them than by a few comparisons. Take a, well at Baku called the “ Wet Nurse.” It has been yielding oil for twelve years, and in that time has averaged 32,000 gallons a day. These figures They mean that the well has produced 140,000,000 gallons of oil or over 3,000,000 barrels. These figures are startling to

the people of this country when they turn to the statistics of their industry and find that this one well has produced three times as much as all the wells at Pithole, Pa., in q year of its wonderful business. The record is given of a well drilled by Nobel Brothers, called the “Droojba Well.” It cost $7,500 to drill. The record of the vyell is thus stated: This well spouted tof 115 days, the yield being '2,400 tons a day for 43 days, 000 tons for 30 and 600 tons for 11 days. The well was then plugged, and the supply kept under ground for further wants. The total amount of oil spouted by this well according to the lowest estimate, was 22,000 tons, or 55,000,000 gallons; according to the highest estimate, 500,000 tons, or 125,000,000 gallons.