Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-03-14
INDIANA AND OHIO OIL WELLS.
Pennsylvania Not the Only State Of Gush-
ers-Enormoua Investments.

Feunby1VaHl8 MOI the Only state on Gu6n"
ers-Enormous Investments.
People who know very little about
oil wells take it for granted that most
OF these interesting holes have been
sunk in the state of Pennsylvania, but
there are others. Ohio and Indiana
have come to the front as Oil producers
during the past ten years, and the
enormous extent of this industry in
these two states is not generally
known. The year just ended has been
q banner one Tor these oil fields. In
diana is the newer field of the two, and
it is just opening up in good shape.
The first crude oil discovered in Ohio
was well sunk in the city of Lima by
Il. c. Faurot, formerly banker of that
city. Since that time the growth of
this industry has been rapid. During
the past year 3,00l wells were COM
pleted in Ohio. The largest of these is
the Kirkbriee gusher in Sandusky
county. It produces 310 barrels per
hour or TAO barrels per day of twenty
four hours, and it has been mint for
its owners. The company that owns
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another which was sunk not far from
it, and which averaged 1900 barrels q
day.
In nineteen counties In Ohio there
have been drilled 17,401 wells, of which
2,730 are worthless for oil, but many of
the latter are good gasers. Wood
county has proved the most profitable
oil Geld. The first well drilled there
for gas or oil was sunk in the corpora
ton of Bowling Green in 1885. twas
successful and others followed, and the
field of operations was extended to-
ward North Baltimore and Findlay.
From 1885 to the present time gill
wells have been drilled in Wood county
alone, which at an average expendi-
ture Of So, 1000 to each we'll represents
an outlay of sl2,22e, Oo0 There are in
this country now 24O miles of two-inch
oil lines, costing $500, 600; 20 miles of
three-inch oil lines, that cost $3.50, 600;
125 miles Of four-inch oil lines that cost
$275. 90 miles of six-inch oil lines
that cost $3.50, Goo; 80 miles of eight
inch oil and gas lines that cost $780,
600, and 80 miles of ten-inch gas
lines that cost $1.425,00O. This
shows that the wells and pipe
lines alone in Wood county represent
an expenditure of $i5, 773, 900 In addi-
ton to this there are located in this ter
ritory Ego storage tanks that cost Sc, 600
apiece. Then there are the expenses
incurred by bonuses, rentals, labor and
building. There are over a dozen
pumping stations in Wood county, in
Guiding the famous No. at Cygnet,
which alone sends $4,000 barrels a day
to Cleveland. The last report from
Wood county shows there are over
5000, 900 barrels of crude oil in her
tanks, representing cash valuation of
81, 100000. During the past -four, years
the oil output at Wood county has
been 7l,seOOoo barrels. These are the
statistics for one county only, and they
indicate the wealth that the oil fields
has poured into the state. The pro-
portion OF wells in other counties Of
Ohio is as follows: Hancock, 2,723;
Allen, ! l6; Auglaize, 2,297: Sandusky,
2.62O; Lucas, 160; Mercer, 1856; miscel-
laneous counties, 1885, Prior to 1890
| there had been completed in Ohio ter.
| ritory 1895 wells; since that time 2, Isl
were completed in 1890, 1879 in 1891,
,465 in 1892, 1,S77 in 1898, ,0Ol In 1894.
The Palmer Oil Co.'s well near Cyg.
| net has produced over GOO. 900 barrels.
The Denver well In the same territory
/ had daily output Of 1000 barrels for q
4 long time. Most of the large finds dur