The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-11-15
LINCOLN A COMING FIELD

oil City Derrick recently, George A..
Whitney. well gnown oil scout says
Zone Of the newest fields 60 attract
attention in the state Of Kentucky is
Lincoln county, and indications are
that this field has been overlooked
by many Of the oil men. II looks like
one Of the coming fields Of the State
and while the wells are not Of the
vusher kind, thew are like those that
make uonev on long null An event
in the commercial history ~ the coun-
/ tv took place at Wavncsbur~. on the
! Southern Poilrood when the first
tark Of crude oil evor produced in
| 7 ircoln county was shirrend 20 tho
Stardard or Cow~arv &C Rnrtuckv's
r'art ~ Iouisvre by the Daniel
Boone oil Company.
"vhi'e Wavroshurc hos for some
tive been ouirtlv ard without osten-
tation, goiuing an importance as the
I certer of er'orrrisa fo~ tha south
ern half of the wealthy and progress
sive Lincoln county. it remained for
its Commercial Club 10 add to its
laurpls by securing the establishment
at that point Of the terminus Of the
nine line from the oil field about six
miles northeast Of the town The
citizens Of Way1osburC. RECOGNIZING
the importance Of tho oil devclop-
mert. became boosters for the indus
, Try without execution and THROUGH
the efforts Of Norr," Thomson. tho !
southern half of LINCOLN county was
leased 10y the Daniel Boone Oil Com
pany and other companies.
"About January I. 1917, the first /
test well in the south end Of Lincoln |
county was completed on the Albert /
Schuler farm by the Daniel Boone ]
Oil Company, and as this well had /
good show Of oil with a strong
flow Of gas it justified the drilling |
of additional wells in that section,
but it was not until the following
July that oil was found on the Joseph
Wieland farm on the headwaters OF
Buck creek. and at this date the Dan
iel Boone Oil Company has II pro-
ducing wells on the Wieland farm
and SO wells have been drilled in that
section-30 oil weells and 10 dry
holes. The oil is found in the Cornif-
erous formation, more commonly
known as the Irvine sand at a depth
ranging from 200 to $50 feet and
is from 10 to so feet wide.
"About 30 years ago, seven shallow
wells were drilled in the headwaters
Of Green River. all being producers,
and one well in that section of the
county is reported TO have flowed
from the Sunnvbrook sand at a depth
of 500 feet. This sand in the Ohio
fields is known as the Trenton rock,
which is the right name for il. At
about this time two wells were drilled I
on the Baughman farm, miles south
Of Stanford, to the Sunnybrook sand
GALLEY
one Of which is furnishing gas to the
Baughman home, and the other well
was reported rs a five-barrel oil well
The sand was found in that section at
a depth of 1856 feet
among the companies operating
in the Lincoln county field are: The
Florence Oil Company, Newton Oil ,
Company, Wyoming-Kentucky Oil
Company, 7civedere Oil Company.
and the Daniel Boone Oil Company.
These companies are running eight
drilling machines in the field. hut ,
with a pipe line to handle the pro.
iuction there would be much addition ,
al drilling done by such companies
as the Cosden Oil Company, Wood Oil
Company, New Dominion Oil and Gas
Company, White Brothers and a syn
dictate of Chicago and New York cap |
italists, and all are holders of terri ,
tory in Lincoln county that is bound ,
to be tested out. The only pipe line
in the county is that of the Daniel
Boone Oil Company, which has just
after long and tedious
wait to get pipe and pumping out
fits to equip the line. II has certainly
been a red letter day for the Daniel
Boone Company and the citizens Of
in general for the new
enterprise in the county, which some
day will mean a large source Of in
come for the land owners from their
royalties and the business people in