Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1918-01-18
WHERE is THE BIG POOL?
Great Year In Oil Development
Is Predicted.

That even greater oil pools
than those of the Pilot, Furnace,
or Sign Board districts in Pow
ell, Estill and Lee counties, will
be drilled during the year 1918
is the opinion of numerous geo
1ogists and oil men closely in
touch with the Kentucky oil Sit
uation.
Failures in the past in every
county N the eastern part of the
state that has been tested, have
in some sense, been valuable. At
every we'll drilled in, sufficient in
dications were noted, in most
cases, which engaged the opera
tors to retain their leases, and
try again.
In some cases it was necessary
to drill the fourth or fifth well,
meaning an expenditure of thous-
ands of dollars, before oil or gas
in paying quantities was found.
1t was this spirit on the part of
c. R. Dulin, of the Dulin Oil &
Gas Company, which resulted in
the development of the now ia
nous Irvine field. Mr.. Dulin's
first three wells were on the Dad
Maple lease, in Estill county,
were only small producers, which
at that time (1913) paid practi-
cally nothing. His fourth, how
ever, when put under the pump,
produced Is barrels, and from
that time on his wells were To-
Gated so as to fall into some of
the best pools of the field.
The year just passed has seen
some wonderful development in
Eastern Kentucky. At its begin
ming, little development, or, in
fact, only three wells had been
completed on the now famous J.
M. Ashley farm, in Powell coun-
ty, under lease to White Bros,
and Huff.
| The daily production from this
tract is now in the neighborhood
IOf 1000 barrels. The Prewitt-
Mil1er-Goff tract, which now
contains IS producing wells had
not been touched by the drill, and
it was only during the latter part
Of the year that the Petroleum
Exploration Company began &C
tual development. Lee county
has passed from an era of uncer-
tainty to a field of sound invest
ment, while the game in Estill
county has become a permanent
| business.
/ Out of the counties OF Owsley,
tClay, Knox, Menifee, Mol1fgom-
! cry, Bath, Rowan, Elliott; Garter.
Knott, Floyd, Morgan, Magofin,
Breathitt, Madison, Jackson,
Rockcastle, Lincoln or Boyle. the
big pool must come. And if
there is any pool in these coun-
ties to be found, the epoch-mak-
ing drilling campaign which will
be prosecuted during the coming
months, will find it.
One of the largest wells to
come in for some time was the IS
barrel well brought in by the Sis
terville Oil and Gas Company at
their No. l on the C. Townsend
farm, in Wolfe county. This well
is located one mile couth of
Standing Rock on Big Sandy
Creek. A number of wells are
being drilled in Wolfe county at
the present time and are being
watched with much interest.
In the Campton district the
McMann Oil and Gas Company
struck a dry hole in their No. /,
on the Dave Rose farm.
In Lee county, the White well
on the Bernis holland lease, has
been shot and is reported as good
for from IS to 100 barrels.
The Lexington Oil Corporation
a few days ago, of which E. Bry-
ant Crump, formerly of Winches-
ter, is president, drilled in in Es-
county a we'll which is various1y
estimated at from IS to Is bar
rels, by the best oil men in the
field. The same company has
acquired in the last week in Es-
till county 20 acres more of oil
land upon which they have sever
al producing wells that have add
ed considerable to their produc-
ton. With their new purchases
according to the president of the
company, they have now a pro-
duction of approximately 500 bar
rels per month. The company
is one of the younger companies
of the fields.
In Rockcast1e county consid-