Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1895 — OIL EXCITEMENT IN KENTUCKY. [ARTICLE]

OIL EXCITEMENT IN KENTUCKY.

Northern and Eastern prospectors ar« flocking to tho oil fields in Wayne county, fifty miles southeast of Danville, Ky„ where the Standard and other companies have already a great many leases made. Some good strikes have been made In that region, and veteran oil men express th< opinion that the field will shortly becomt of National Importance. It extends southward from Monticello twenty-five miles U the Tennessee line.