Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1899 — Latest About the Gillam Gushers. [ARTICLE]

Latest About the Gillam Gushers.

The latest news received from the oil field in the northwest part of Gillam township is thata “gusher” was drilled in last Saturday No particulars have been received regarding this last well save that it is on James Toyne’s farm, is a two inch well, and the best yet drilled in in that locality. The amount of its daily flow was not not know to our informant, but he said some of the oil company’s previous wells were producing 16 barrels a day, and this being better presumbly produces- more. It was a deeper well than any of the others. A power house has been erected aud pipes are being laid from the different wells and combining them into one large pipe, which is to be laid to the nearest railroad point, which is on Giffords railroad and the distance is about three iailes.