Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1901 — Indiana’s Oil Output. [ARTICLE]

Indiana’s Oil Output.

The year 1900 has been the most pt®k. perous in the history of oil development in Indiana. The record of tbe year 1895 was phenomenal, but it has easilyieen surpassed during 1900, when 2.9231 oil wells were drilled in the field, ot 740 were dry—that is, j. The increase in the number of comMKed wells over that of 1899 was 740. cost of the wells put down in Indianan the last year was $4,740,800, and tMr amount expended in drilling Ury hoNMt'l was $1,624,000. >