The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-09
Factories I'm Indiana and other States
Resuming Work with Increased
Number Of Employees.
VIEWS OF JAMES H. ECKELS
CONTROLLER OF THE CURREN1
THINKS THE OUTLOOK Is 8RIGH
Conditions Are Ripe for a Revival
Trade-Activity I'm Indiana and
Ohio OIL Fields.
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TOLEDO, o., Nov. S.--Advices from
Indiana and Ohio oil fields show that while
operations are not unusually a, live there
are expectations of a vigorous bocm in the
near future. When other ind ries are
prosperous there is always a go1d demand
for oil. During the month of October there
were 1.6Ss. 455 barrels of oil run from the
Ohio and Indiana oil field. making the daily
average runs from the two fields DR. the
month 81, i66 barrels. The total shipments
for the same period from the two States
was l.105,o66 barrels or daily average OF
S5.Oe barrels. These figures show that the
company running and purchasing the oil
has been compelled to draw on the surplus
stock TO fill out the shipments while il is
only $50 barrels a day for the month il
helps to decrease the stocks and should
nave tendency TO increase the price OF
the product.
Dispatches from Montpelier. Ind, say:
Bold Bros have completed well No. on
the c. ID. Porter farm. in Section 25. Hart
ford township. Adams county, and IL is OF
the gusher stripe. being good for $50 bar
rels. Burford d Juday have completed well
No. on the Joseph Bucher farm. in Sec
tion 80. Wabash township. Adams county,
and 1t is good for l20 barrels. The Kerline
Bros Oil Company's well No. on the
William Shoemaker farm, in Section 3s.
Hartford township. same county, is good
for thirty barrels. Griffin. ODonnell &.
Co.'S well No. 3 on the William Sharp farm.
In Section 81. Nottingham township. Wells
county, Is good for ninety barrels The
tetIman Oh Companys well No. l9 on the
+. shade farm, I'm Section IL Chester
barreln Reffmsn eame eo1Ray Wy Is go3d for sixty
Wei No. IL. on the Il. Shade farm. I'm Sec
tion S. same township. is good for hfty
barrels. Ben F. Pyle's No. well on the
j. and +. Corn farm. in Section L. same
township. is good for thirty barrels. Scott
d Morgan's well No. the 4. l.. Scott
farm. in Section 80. Nottingham township
same county. is good for forty barrels.
One of the most phenomenal oil wells
completed in the Ohio oil field for the past
Two years has just came In, on the Foster
forty-acre farm, IN Section 90 Portage
township Wood county. and twenty-seven
miles south OF this city. The gusher is
mhed ord Ps Pstne Nell pnlo , 0i COMPANY ', stand. %
from the hamlet of Jerry City, and I'm ter
ritory that has for years been considered
looked upon as being situated directly in
the line ofNa dryrstreak of Trenton rock,
while the Lee farm adjoining the west line
OF the finest producing oi, wells in the
State. When the well was drilled into the
oil It eommeneed to flow and for tie first
crude, after which the tanks caught fire
from the boilers and the entire thing was
consumed The well is being put into shape
again. 1t is estimated by good. thorough
oil operators TO be good for at least four
thousand barrels day, making the largest
well completed since the striking of the
famous kirkbride gusher I'm Sandusky
county three years ago. On the forty-acre
tract adjoining the Foster farm on the
north are three dry holes completed some
six years ago. The Ohio Oil Company will
start some twenty wells I'm the immediate
vicinity of the gusher at once, while the
Delaney Bros. have two wells drilling Just
vest from the gusher and will start several
more at once. or as soon as the timbers
can be put on the ground and the rigs COM
pleted. New wells will be drilled on the
Mutually farm to the north and others on
the Netlorode farm 10 the east and south.
The striking of this well will cause the
drilling of at least hundred wells in the
new pool and make that part OF Wood
county very active during the winter.