| Show KENTUCKIANS CRAZED BY DISCOVERY OF 0 LOUISVILLE Ky Feb 5 KentuckY Kentucky Is literally oil oi crazy In all al parts of ot the are staking State the busy prospectors seems most likely to out the land that send forth a greasy money making flow fow All AU are working hard and all aU are hopeful of strikes that will wi bring brIng for for- tune Considerable money is being ex expended expended expended ex- ex and what the outcome wi will be beIs beis beis is rather hard to say A sufficient re return return re- re fair dividends dividends dividends divi divi- turn tur may be made to bring on the total amount Invested but many companies will wi doubtless strike nothing more profitable than gas or orca ca caves ves In the course of a comparatively few months the oil of fever has spread over a large section of the State It I started In Wayne county near Monticello MontIcelo Since the early part of the last century It had been known that oil oi existed there but buti It i was not until the wonder tales began to come from Beaumont that the Imagination imagination Imag imag- of ot prospectors who knew of this field feld was whetted enough to lead them to begin operations on an extensive scale The oil oi was struck all al right and the Wayne county fields felds have been been important factors In the development of Kentucky's oil 01 industry In this county the Pennsylvania Lubricating Lubricating Lu Lu- Oil Oi company recently struck a Heavy flow fow of gas on the Miller Mie farm after boring 1062 feet and going through Trenton rock There is another gas well wel near which was struck In I 1890 but which was plugged up and abandoned The he gas has been escaping i in small smal Quantities and has been burning burning burning burn burn- ing at a h height ight Of f four feet for years There are several other gas wells wels in the vicinity and it is reported that the Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky and Ohio Oil on and Refining company company company com com- pany contemplates piping this gas to Lexington via Somerset This company also expects to drill dri about fifty more wells wels In Wayne county it I h hin has ha 0 in and Monticello Ky Findlay O. O It I owns acres in inVa Wa Va county Twenty wells wels are now under Wa drilling in Wayne county and de deir derr 1 for about fifteen more are being r p pI companies are in the Many liTany field feld and ant county Is given over to the oil 01 men In addition additon to Wayne Waye Barren Mercer Caldwell Caldwel Allen Alen Logan t tand and McLean counties are countes the theof theof so of oil oi activity An oil 01 strike at depth of 1050 feet has been reports Princeton by the South Florida Florda company and the well wel is being 4 d deeper day and night night As a result u is considerable interest leases ar demand and new companies are ar j paring to put down dow wells wens as rapidly possible Glasgow Glagow Is the centre of Barren Barrea Baren tys ty's activity and several strikes i k been made In the county The pro Pr tors are pushing the work A COm coma has been organized at RUsl which has leases on acres of ot gan county land It I expects to fc boring within a month Everything is In readiness at J 1 for a test of Hart county thought to be productive of ot The weather has delayed oper but they will wI soon begin Near Harrodsburg in Mercer c COE eg Coyles Coyle's well wel Is getting down every ever and the Pennsylvania company i is sinking it i is confident of a s sti it 1 The Simpson Allen Simpson Simpson-Alen Oil 01 company working near Scottsville and pro prop thoroughly test the territory prop j jit in i S It has confidence McLean count coun 1 enjoyed a strike and great interest Inter count developed Bath county has thirteen wells a very ver good quality of ot oil 01 E derson county reported a strike Saturday Other counties that countes ar ae interested are Christian ChrIstan Hopkins Hopkns W g ster Montgomery Rowan Knott Knott lie le Floyd and Clay Prospectors believe beleve that eastern eater I ties tes tucky contains contins some fine oil 01 po pea |
