Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1904 — EXCITEMENT IN OIL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

EXCITEMENT IN OIL FIELD.

Considerable excitement is created over the published reports of immense oil finds in the eastern part of the state. New wells were recently drilled there that produce oil in quantities that make it almost an impossibility to take care of it with the United means at hand but large tanks are being put up as rapidly as possible and are being filled by the gusher 3, The interest in oil stocks has become so intense* that almost every farmer in eome localities has turned well driller and- is making wells in an endeavor to get some of the wealth sure to reward those whc find the oil. Persons, in some instance wh? have been almost poverty stricken have awoke to the fact that they are rich in oil, and their oil is mcney.