Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1894 — FIRST OIL WELL IN CASS COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

FIRST OIL WELL IN CASS COUNTY.

The first oil well In Cass county has Seen opened at Royal Center. Oil was found in paying quantities and of a superior quality, and experts report that tho outlook is very flattering to stockholders. I‘he majority of the stock is held by Loginsport parties, headed by Miller Uhl. Several of them are also interested in the Montipelier fields. Some five years ago residents of Royal Center borod for natural gas. Four wells were sunk, from each of which two or throe barrels of oil daily flowed. The company, nowever, was dlston raged over the failure to find gas. The well opened last Thursday lain a ditfer>nt locality and was sunk to terft the extent of the vein. Over 20 030 acr.s, extending across to White county and reaching to Franclsville, In P I i*kl county, have been leasod, and It Is propo <ed to test the entire territory. Twei t/-five wells will be sunk during the coming leason. 1 Pino lore Slange, of Anderson, >|< i jue-dollar greenback of the 1863 Issue, with something of a history. Whllo tending bar at Millersburg. in 1800. a young nan who had seen better days culled for t drink, and taking out the bill wroto upmlt ’’Here goes the last dollar I possess »f a fortune of 175.000 left to me one year »go.” Still further examination of the rll. hi-' 'airon had left, disclosed ihe following additional insrrmt Ion; “The i... osv u. my lifo. Only oie dollar >llll had left with which to pay ray manflag* fee, June 4. 1863. Na-hville, 1863. Phomas Fitzgerald.” Mr. Slange prizes Sts so v -nir very highly. He has no clew io the identity of ths individual who left t with him.