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Show ;v : MAJORS WUilS IN OIL George A. Snow Strikes It Rich in Indiana Fields; Is Weil Known Here. George A. Snow, organizer . of the . ' Consolidated Implement company here, which later combined with the Co-op - . Wagon & Machine company, Is making a fortune In oil in Indiana. He and Walter I. Moody have se- cured the bulk of the productive holdings hold-ings in the field near Muncle, and are . ; making a fortune out of it. Last Sunday's Chicago Inter-Ocean devotes a column to a description of Snow and. his partner, Moody, and tells of their methods of operation. Guthrie eighty-acre farm, with Its three deep, or second pay wells, now producing produc-ing about 300 barrels dally, adjoins the Graham-Hendrlck farm on the west, while a well has been drilled and oil found on the corner of the Gral&m. The wells on the Guthrie. Graham and Delaware county farms are directly In line. Adjoining the Hanna farm on the north a deep well has recently come In at S80 barrels, and a second deep well Is now being drilled. The Providence Provi-dence Oil company Is now drilling two new wells on the Hanna farm, one on the Delaware county farm and one on the Graham. , According to this article, these men were shrewd Investors, and knew oil land when they saw It. They aocord-. aocord-. ' ingly had secured nearly all of the good land In the Held before their presence was felt. They paid good prices for . . their holdings, but the wisdom of their course was shown by the dividends ... " they are now receiving from v their wells. Their holdings have all been taken for the Providence Oil company, of which Moody is president. Eleven Producing Wells. Among their recent purchases Is the - big Delaware county farm, comprising 19S acres, on which there are now eleven elev-en producing wells, the youngest of - - whir h Is about a year old. and the ' ' others about five yearn These wells came In at from ten. to fifty barrels a day, but have since settled to their present output of about five barrels each, where It Is expected they will remain re-main for an Indefinite time. To ma-. ma-. terlally Increase this yield it will be necessary to drill additional wells, j ; This,' it Is reported, the company purposes pur-poses doing at once. i i "The Hanna farm, also owned by the Providence Oil company. Is famous and . is advantageously located. Abutting It on the west Is property on which are rf eleven producing wells, all shallow drilling. Cornering It on the southeast Is the Ohio Oil company's, also shallow drilling. Adjoining It on the east are two black wells, deep drilling. These two wells are producing- fully 300 barrels daily each. This company also owns the famous |