The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-09
TENNESSEE OIL FIELDS.
Prospective Rival of Texss-What Is Doing
in Fentress and Pickett Counties.

Prospective Rival of Texas-What Is Doing
in Fentress and Pickett Counties.
! CooKEvILLE, Aug. 5.-Interest in the
! oil territory of Fentress and Pickett
counties, this State, and the adjoining
Kentucky counties continues to in
crease each day, and the developments
are constantly growing more sausfac-
/ tory.
Preparations are now being made
to commence the drilling of over
dozen wells in Fentress and Pickett
counties in the near future, and the
successful development of this oil
field seems now an assured fact.
w. G. Strubbe struck a well at
Sunnybrook last week, which is the
best one so far. 1t will flow LOO bar
rels per day when everything is gotten
in proper shape. At present it is only
doing $50 barrels a day on account of
the want of proper tankage facilities,
and the inability of the pipe line to
handle the oil fast enough.
The foundation is up and rigging
will soon be completed for renewed
| operations at Bertram we'll No. 2,
which was recently burned, and the
pump will be at work at this well in
a few days. Bertram we'll No. 1
will be drilled deeper next week. 1t
is anticipated that this well will re-
sumo its wild gushing when the drill
reaches few feet further depth, and
oil savers have been provided to
meet any emergency of this kind. This
we'll is a good gas producer. Bertram
No. 8 is down over 400 feet, but will
not be driven very rapidly while at
tention is centered upon the two pro-
ducers. The Union well is now down
over 1,2OO feet.
we'll will shortly be located in
Donaldson's Cave, six miles northwest
of jamestown, Tenn.
The Interstate Company's we'll on
the Winingham farm, is now down
about S75 feet. This we'll will be drill
ed to depth Of at least 1000 feet.
The recent copious flow of Dalton
well No. 1 is taxing the energies of
the Transit Company to provide stor
age. The Somerset tanks are full, and
the $4,000 barrel tank will not be COM
pleted for several days. Another tank
| of equal capacity is now in course of
construction.
| The Geary Oil Company, which was
recently incorporated with a capital
stock of $4,000, will begin active de-
velopment at once. One derrick has
already been erected, and two others
are almost completed. This company
owns its own machinery and work on
their NO. l we'll will begin next week.
They own 1000 acres of oil lands lying
along the National Transit pipe line,
between the two big producers at Sun
nybrook and the Bob's Bar we'll at
Spurrier. Mr.. Geary has contracted
with parties in Lima, Ohio, to drill a
well on the Lester lease, about 500
yards from Bertram we'll No. and
about 700 yards from the Strubbe pro-
Queer. Work is to begin at once. An
other well on the Bud Williams farm
will also be drilled by the company at
| once.
Russell county, KY, a part of the
Tennessee-Kentucky field, is to have
splendid opportunities of immediate
development. NJ w. Williams, manag-
ing the interests of the Pennsylvania
Oil Company, has secured leases on
$4,000 acres of the most available ter
ritory in the county. The attention
OF the now famous Guffy Company of
| Texas is also directed toward this por-
ton of the oil field, so it is reported
H. w. Breckenridge, representing
the Pennsylvania Oil Company, is in
the field closing a deal with A. NJ. Will
liams for his one-ffth share in the ex-
tensive interests of that company in
the oil field.
The McConneghey Oil Company has
been organized with $4,000 capital
The land of this company lies along
the waters of Beaver and Otter creeks
considered by experts to be one of the
most favorable locations in this oil ter
ritory. They will begin developments
as soon as machinery can be procured
j. F. Mcclure and T. H Kirch-
baum of cincinnati, representing and
at the head of a company that DUR
chased a large acreage of oil territory
south of Sunnybrook, are in the field
arranging to push forward develop
ment under new and expert manage
ment.
Major J. Ed Jones of Monterey. ex-
poets to renew work in the Spring
creek region, in Overton county, be-
fore long There were several good
wells found in that part of the country
about thirty years ago, but on account
of the lack of transportation facilities
their development was abandoned and
it is thought that there is oil in that
section yet.
Max Golditz of Allardt, Tenn, has
just completed a new and valuable
map of the Tennessee-Kentucky oil
region. 1t takes in the country from
Clarkerange, Tenn, on the south to
jamestown, KY, on the north. and
from Celina, Tenn, on the west to
the Cincinnati Southern Railway on
the east. 1t locates the pipe line and
the wells which have heretofore been
drilled, showing all the streams and
roads of the oil region. There can
be no doubt that the next few weeks
will mark a great epoch in the history
of this oil territory.