The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1921-01-26
OIL NEWS.
lBY e. T. KE1IPER.l

pecting to come with him for the pur-
pose of looking over this territory.
DR.. Frank d. Hines, Denver, Colo,
president of the Southern Oil & Re-
fining Company, advises their local
representatives, Messrs. Richardson
& Goff, that he will be here at an ear
ly date to arrange for the marketing
of the product from their Bakerton
wells.
Mr.. S. L. Ginter. manager of the
Ginter Brokerage Company, is back
from a "trip to Cincinnati and Bow
ling Green where he has been for the
purpose of arranging to secure drill
ing rig with which to operate in the
Greensboro field just as soon as ma
chinery can be COTTON on the ground
DIR. R. NJ. Armstrong, Augusta, Ga +,
accompanied by his wife and daugh-
ter, arrived in town Friday on his
way to Greensboro, where he expects
to spend considerable time in the de
velopment of some of the large hold
ings owned in fee by his brother, Mr..
w. A. Armstrong, and himself. DR..
Armstrong ranks high as a physician
and surgeon and he has been for sew
eral years past enjoying very lucra-
tive practice in Augusta, but he can
not resist the lure of the oil game, so
he has dropped everything else, for
the time being, to devote his entire
time to the business.
Mr.. E. Carnahan, the big opera
tor from Canton, Ohio, was here dur
ing the past week returning from
Creelsboro where he has Two rigs
drilling on the Cy Campbell farm
Well No. 2 failed TO show up as pro
Queer in the shallow sand, so it is be
ing drilled on down to the pencil cave
where a good flow is expected. Wei
No. 3 is a good we'll at the shallow
depth, and No 4 is drilling. A large
supply of equipment is being taken Il
the field preparatory to the taking
care and marketing of the prcduct.
All rigs operating in this immediats
section are pounding away as fast a
conditions will permit, and all opera
tors are looking for good results to b
obtained in>the lower sands 1t is thu
contention of the best posted geolo
gists and oil men, who have made
survey and7study of this section, thai
an ihtelligentt test of this field viii
notshaye been made until the love-
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formations have been penetrated, anC
when this is done it is confidently ex
pected that both oil and gas in large
and paying quantities will be found
J Correcting false report which somt
of the knockers" have recently circu
lated around town, 1 desire to state
unqualiiedly, that the Columbia De
velopment Company has not qui
drilling on the Bob Rove farm, OF
the north side of town, and they ,hav'
no intention of stopping until the.
!, have either struck oil or gas, or els
have gone deep enough to satisf,
themselves there is nothing there t.
warrant further expense. Mr.. o. c
Fink, who is personally in charge o
the drilling operations, is a man o
F, wide experience in the business, an
he has rig which can be relied upol
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to do the work.
D. Messrs. j. B Doolittle, Worcester
| New YORK, and Bee Whitis, Somer
set, KY, two of the livest operator
? in the country, and who are nov
] Jointly interested IN the development
: of this territory, have both recent
3 returned to Columbia and they ar
5 are now moving things in way tina
causes everyone to ''sit up and tax
: notice" At present they are contir
ing their operations to the southeast
ern portion of Adair, but they will 81
ter other fields later.
Mr.. Chas Campbell, Creelsbor'
; was town the latter part of II
week and he reported considerable a
tiyity in his immediate locality. II
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