The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1903-04-17
KENTUCKY OIL.
This Field is Now the Most Prom
ising in the Entire Country.


first modern oil well In Kentucky.
Every county on the slope Of the
Appalaehians is now being pros
pected, The greatest developments
are in Wayne, Bath, Rowan, Floyd,
Knox, Knott and Estill counties.
Wayne has IS wells, more than
haltof them producing. Estill has
30, Floyd %, Bath 1875 and Knox 30,
Operations are expected to be
quadrupled this year.
Oil arguments are alIuring. The
facts are, as gained from oil quota
lions and practical oil men, that
Elhc Pennsylvania fields are play
ing out; that the visible supply in
the reservoirs OF the Standard Oil
Company is decreasing by 10000
barrels a day, and that the com.
mercial uses OF petroleum are on
the increase, 1t is claimed that
standard oil Is exceedingly anxious
to develop new fields. The fact
that II has spent enormous sums in
Kentucky in 1902 3 is taken to
show that the company has no
other outlook.
The Oil City Derrick, the organ
OF the Standard Oil, quotes the Wis
ible supply as decreasing by many
thousands each day. The COM
pany is drawing on its reserve
stock in its giant reservoirs to this
extent Local scientists, including
Prof. Arthur NJ. Miller OF the Ken
lucky State College at Lexington,
say that the western slope of the
Appalachians Is an oil sand extend
ing down into Tennessee. OIL has
been found in Kentucky in every
county in which is called the geo.
logical oil-sand stlip. The oil men
are simply migrating along a clear
~ deniarked line into Kentucky,
where the outside investors got
ahead OF the octopus.
/ rhe hills OF the bluegrass region
are ringing with the hustle OF the
Standard Oil army OF workmen
They are now working in the sur.
rounding countiesNn the mud lay.
ing pipe at great cost. The oil
men are jubilant at this evidence
of haste. Pipe is being laid Mt a
cost double OF what 1t might be a
month later,
! Oil will move in Kentucky when
the last link Is connected. The
great eight-inch main pours into
the Standard Oil retineries at Hunt.
ington, w. Va. 1t extends south
west through Paintsville, KY, to
SulyerSyille in Magofiin county, to
! Manchester in Clay county and to
Barbourville in Knox county, near
the Tennessee border. Eight and
six inch mains branch off at Man
chester west to Somerset and Mont.
icello, in Wayne county, and from
there down into Tennessee. An
other branch leads northwest from
Salyersville to the Licking Valley
field at Ragland. y third leads
south from PaintsviIle to Floyd
county. At points the branch pipes
are but four.inch, while all the
feeders to individual wells are but
two inch. over 500 miles o! the
larger pipe has been laid and but
little work remains before oil will
be moving to the refinery in West
Virginia. The Standard Oil is the
sole buyer and lays all pipe, in
Guiding the feeders. Supplement-
Ing this pipe system the Standard
oil Company has large reservoirs
at various points. The individual
well owners have lhei- tanks oil
small capacity. At Ragland the
enormous reservoir OF the GuiTey
Galley Co is now owned by the
standard Oil, AT Somerset tn,
Standard has - large reservoirs
and all are said to be full. The
company is now building more al
that point. At Barboursville, IL
Knox county, they have another
I storage point.
The Standard Oil Company haj
: had men in Lexington all winter
5. $. Miller, repre- sentlng these PEG
people, leased over 100000 acre
!. OF oil lands under the name of tn,
South Pennsylvania Oil Company
These are low, it 1t said on goot
! authority, to be turned over 10 th,
New Domain Oil Company, undeI
which the ctupus is 10 be know
in this State. The company is pay
my 81 90 a barrel for oil near III
, own properties in Floyd county
and from On cpnts IN (S rants a har
rel in Wayne county, the only
points at which oil is now being
pumped in the State
Edward Price, OF Parkersburg
w. Va, lett last night for HON,
( after looking over the entire field
IAN the old oil men Of West Nir
GINA and Pennsylvania are coming
. down this spring. There was llttl,
show last year because no pipe line
WAS in operation,p he said.