Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-06-29
Crop Now Ripe in Texas, Writes
V. S. Pease of BarabOO, Now
SOjOurning There
OIL WELL COSTS FROM
$3s,Oeo TO $4,000
If Oil is Found Fortunes Are Made,
if No Oil There is Another Story
to Tel

From the city papers learn that a
dozen persons we're killed last week
Ia Chicago by the heat. There has
been no such heat down here In Tex
as, where many hot thfEgs originate.
Today 10 warm enough for ME, but In
the matter OF hot weather / get ali
need before the thermometer gets
well started upgrade. For the past
four days we have had about "a de-
grees OF heat and the natives think
II is fierce For myself, it's enough
but | have not suffered.
There is little doing in the oil in
dustry just now, but the way drilling
contracts are being signed promises
much activity in the near future. A
company that holds a block of leases.
10000 acres, just north of ours, has
let contracts for derrick timber and
for 500 cords of wood for the engine
That means that this crowd, which
comes from Shreveport La, is soon
to begin drilling in our immediate vi
Cinity.
Drilling a Well
II may be well to tell News read
ers something about d. Iling an oil
well-Or deep test" as ii is called.
Besides the great derrick, a 3O-horse
engine and boiler are needed for
the tools in use are heavy. The we'll
usually starts at 20 inches in dia-
meter, and goes to about 800 feet
depth at that size, when 1t is reduced
20 Is inches, and 80 II goes until the
deph inended is reached. That is, Il
goes on so, If no accident interferes.
The bit" used weighs more than a
ton. and IL the system used is what is
called ''stasdard," this Is hoist
ed and dropped until the hole is dri-
ven to the required depth. Many drill
lers use the rotary, or kind Of augur
bit which literally bores a hole
through clay and rock. The rotary,
under favorable conditions, is faster
than the old "chug" drill. All tools
and appliances used are very expen-
Give, and a we'll 5000 deep means
large outlay.
II No Oil Is Found
Our people are off now 70 get rig
for the deep test we are TO put down
this summer. This means an invest
ment OF nearly 500, 900. and that il
not half the story. A real we'll. $500
$40 900 20 s60,00 Many wells are put
down for less money, but these are
the usual figures And then, IL no oil
is found. there Is another story TO
tell about II.
Irish. or white, potatoes are coming
into market these days. and while the
yield Is small the spuds look as IL
they would be good TO eat. A boy liv-
ing next door 10 the place where
am boarding brought me over four
ripe peaces off a tree in his fathers
front yard. The fruit is a bit coarse,
perhaps, but II beats no fruit at ALL
rigs promise to be a fine crop; they
will be on in less than a month. To
matoes are ripe and the smoOthest
incest fruit / ever have seen. The to-
matO crop Is the mortage litter in
several counties Is this section OF
Texas.
Ku kIux Klan
One hears a lot about the Ku XIX
Klan down In this part of the south.
and the inference is that it :
very strong But you cannot find any
body that is willisg to admit his con
nection. It is an organization that
practices intense Americanism, and
its followers have small use for those
who put religion above patriotism
Americanism, first, last and all the
time that seems to be the object Of
the order.
V. S. PEASE
Overton, Texas