The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-08-02
DESCRIPTION
OF o.! FIELDS
Pumps are Worked Night
and Day.
One Illinois Farm Has Thirty
Four Producing Oil
Wells.

(By John d. Kelley, in Hancock C'arionJ
bridgeport H., July pa bit of
business brought me TO- Vinoenncs yes
trcday, and having recently hcand much
oil talk at HawesvilIe | ram oven here.
only fOurtcen miles. to see what an oil
field really looks like. 1t certainly is
here, and 1t looks some TOO. A single
DERRICK recently put. up ON the high
school lot in Hawosville ATTRACTED much
attention and caused much talk. Here,
In any direaion the eye looks. from
forty to 100 derricks. can BE- taken in
at glance. Under most of. them the
Jack" or small pump, is going con-
stantly drawing up the oleoginous fluid
This pump is generally one of seven or
more that are being run by "a central
.'ower of say sixty or NOR use power
located 800 yards Or 'ess away ant pro-
PEELED by an iron rod attached to Il
peculiar IN clianism or rotary propel-
liant, which is driven by the gas that
comes from the oil well. Very little
attention is given to these pumps. and
they 20 night and day. The oil of some
of the wells is pumped to Lawrenceville,
where the Ohio Oil Company has it's re-
finory, AMI some to Whiting, Ind, and
more of it is pumped into great iron
tanks that hold thousands of barrels.
and Bridgeport counted forty-five Of
these great tanks on a singdle 100 acre
farm. They are about twenty TO thirty
feet In height and about 90 feet in
circumference. The Snowden Bros, one
Of whom at least. Mr.. James Snowden.
Is weil-known at Hawesville, are one
of the four most impontant producers
here. They have thlrty-four producing
wells on a single farm, from which they
have already taken $4,000 barrels Of
| oil. Some new wells are now being sunk
by them. This farm was not worth mora
than sa5 an acre six years ago when the
first well was a SUCCESS here, and NOW
well, know no way to tell Its val
lie except to say that the above 81, :
900 barrels sold for 66 cents a bar
rel, or s52, 500 Ue of the above
wells has heen running for years,
and 1t vet produces 80 barrels every
"a hours The otd homestead on this,
the O'Dmnen farm. has been abandon
ed by the family. and In the nemc-
terry where the father" Clsas. OiDon-
nell Is buried, there was Gecently err
ected a 80 900 monument to his memory
On another here l saw ~ tanks, each
of which is estimated to hoAd 81. f)
barrels. At one point the road running
South from Bridgeport Is the dividing
line between dhe rival companiea Oupil-
My. well oiled, is spelled out in blas-
ing etterA There Is where you $40
one company put it's weids as Close
as possible to the Dad, AND then
| Tie SNliukHuy SSAsEES nuDsaS eA"fi
sticks up dts drilling derrick just ncr,oss
the road from the same, AND pnoha5ly
60 down the road GOO feet and start
to drill a well cose to the road, and
then find thai they have only tnduced
their rival to get ACROSS the r9ad from
them at the new point. This Is en-
planned by the fact that the pumps in
common use draw the oil for "a dixtan.
Of 60O feet only. NO yOn can rob 70 II
neighbor to THAI extent, unless he Is
up and ready to checknate OF probably
to rob you to the extent of GOO feat
of your territory, less the distance
from his pump pipe to your line aenoss
the road.
On one side of a certain road here
Is what they call dry territory II
produces no OIL. while OH the other
there Is plenty Of good producing
sand In this connection let u he
said thai every oil man here says
the oil comes fpam and thru sand
TO the Dumps. The minimum cost
of ddaging the wells IL $3.50 a foot, and
nearly all Of them are LOO feet dess
In this territory. The first discovery
made here was by j. ]. Hoblttxea1, OF
Barhourville, Kentucky. No one here
seems To know just why he came here
or how me came to select the particular
lucky SPOT. This is now the southern
ltm& of Vine Illinois field. but II extends
with more or less produotiwanass, for {
distaace OF % miles up the WabaA