The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-07

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rate TO one hundred thousand barrels 9
year This is surely n fortune in oil
where fifteen more wells will probably b,
/ opened on the quarter-section. Half
mile west and southeast there are in sue
cession. the Atkinson. the joyce. thu
Schonberg and the Bredehoft wells. run
ming from one hundred forty, 10 three
/ hundred barrels a day Another fine
prospect is opening up on the Hunte,
farm. three miles west Besides. remark
able fields are being opened up all over
Montgomery and Chautauqua counties
where it is generally supposed that the
basin extends over both. IT is certainly
wide and extensive enough to employ thu
activities of four times as many people
in very rapid development where the
chief obstacle TO every ono having their
own gas or oil well. is the absence OF
the three thousand dollars
\ great throng OF people arc coming
into the developing area daily. from al
parts Of the country and Canada. and
occasionally a few from Europe Mos.
Of those who are the busiest boring
drilling and operating the wells. are from
PENNSYLVANIA ard Ohio II is sair tha,
a true Pennsylvania hunts " ar oil
field as readily as Scotchmar finds MS
oats and herring. or Yankee takes 70
beans and goldfish. OF one thing We are
certain. these are strong armed clear
sighted fellows coming here row. who
plunge into oil boring and development as
they do into q hearty dinner.
The prospecting and developing con
tracts in Montgomery county. undertaken
and in progress. require The expenditure
Of . quarter million dollars annually.
while the aggregate from lola ard Cha
mute TO Bolton. Caney and Bartlesvilie.
at an estimate carefully made. runs over
Eve million dollars for last year 1870
one reputable authority SAYS there are
a fun Thousand producing wells In Kan
sas. a refinery at Neodesha. that IS con-
stantIy increased IL capacity. and a good
pipe linz ore hundred miles tn length
now IN operation from HumboIt 20 Bar
tlesvilie in the territory. This aera. only
partially developed II about one hundred
miles long and THIRTY - forty miles vide
As now operated II has promise II being
one q tbs richest Of beds. ard the most
extensive sas fe.d gn the world IL e.
more promising than the Bradford. Penn
syIvania seId Uas AZ a corresponding per-
iod Of Development. wIrh the urTf as=1r-
irg Indications q an extension r. rs area.
and incerased p-oductlqn. s9t-fh end
southwest that vi PROBABLY gr.ad-1r1e
its producing powers. xi,hln TIE coming
year q 1874
Land vall1ss aye pi1lT rising along the
line. AID whether g Is ar iadl atior -
healthy growth. 20 raise the grlces =
farms 50 Tar above their gresent p-ceisc-
!ns basis. the r1se goes oT - where some
tracts ara held as hlgh - twc - foar
thousand doils-r an acre. e Fise from aFe.
ten anf fifteen doiiars az acre three
years ago. The activity IN lac e outside
y the boring districts ans - h-to-r re-
market The a~Iis are seaecail5 2lt sazr
ca leased larss
ASIDE from railroad lasesruasuf 80
their operation. ,Ee s-anaz-5 Cal Cem-
pauy IS psftlng in mHsans re MATERIAL
axtEres and leh~sT r. fAe rupst sseezT
suiiding p.oEress z-sd deT~aopusnt y f1e
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