Connecticut western news., 1891-10-08
onIo,s OIL eEYseR.
Flowing at the Rate of 10000 Barrels of
 Petroleum in Twenty four Hours.

Flowing at the Rate of 7o.ooo Barrels of
 Petroleum in Twenty Hours.
 Ohio has the biggest oil well in the United States, if not in the world, and if permitted to flow it's full capacity it would more than fill two of the monster 35, 900 barrel tanks every twenty-four hours This great oil geyser is located in Hancock county, just four miles south of the town of North Baltimore.
 The well has been drilled in, and when at depth of thirty-f feet in the sand a strong gas pocket was struck, and the we'll showed for gas producer of about 1,250, 900 cubic feet capacity. Gas was not what was wanted, however, and the drill was sent eight feet deeper, which made the total depth in the sand forty. three feet, where oil was found. The total depth of the well is 2, POS feet. When the pool was struck the oil started flowing, and a connection was made through 2-inch line from the casing head to a 600 barrel tank. which was filled with good, clean oil in precisely ninety minutes.
 The company then learned that they had drilled into wonderful lake of oil, and it was also discovered that or dinary tankage facilities were far from sufficient and work was at once begun on another 600 barrel tank. At the same time several dinkey pumps were started, and pipe lines were laid, while connections were being made to the main line.
 On the afternoon of the same day it was decided to take the tools from the hole, and thousands of people hay ing heard of the gusher, fiocked in from all directions to see the famous geyser opened up At about 3 o'clock the engine was started and the tools were gradually being brought to the surface. The drillers were being drenched with oil, which flowed all over the derrick. When the tools were within few hun dred feet of the surface the rope com. menced to slack, and the drillers, after reversing their engine made for place of safety, as the tools were being lifted from the we'll by the heavy pressure of the oil r...f.s5
 It was thought at the time that the rope had broken and the tools left in the hole, but the drill was found sitting beside the casing in the rig. As soon as the tools were out solid column of oil belched forth from the casing head rising far above the derrick, where it spread in all directions. There where two 2-inch lines connected on the cas- ing.
 It made as beautiful sight as any one wished to see, and it thrilled the hearts of the oil men, who witnessed the sight with delight, to know that they had looked upon what was prob ably the largest oil we'll ever completed on the globe. An effort was made to shut the we'll in, and eight men worked for nearly two hours until they sue ceeded in getting the we'll under con- trol
 Afterward it was turned into 600 barrel tank through a 2-ince line, run ming the tank over with rolly oil in sixty three minutes. The well, at the rate it flowed through the casing for the space of time it was opened, would in twentyfour hours produce good O,0O0 barrels of rolly oil, making near ly double the size of any we'll ever com pleted, not barring the Russian wells Cor Cincinnati Commercial Gazette