Brown County IL Archives Newspapers.....Oil Flow Continues Steady; Many More Rigs Arrive
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Newspaper: The Democrat-Message: Oil Flow Continues Steady: Brown County, Illinois

     Democrat-Message, Mt. Sterling, Illinois, Wednesday, November 11, 1959

     Headline:  Oil Flow Continues Steady; Many More Rigs Arrive Subhead:
     Install Two More Large Storage Tanks Near Davis Well

     Steady pumping of oil from the well on the William Davis farm in
     Buckhorn township has continued this week and operators installed two
     additional storage tanks last week.  Two tanks were originally provided
     but would not afford sufficient capacity.

     The fine quality of oil being pumped from the first good well ever
     discovered in Brown county has continued steady this past week.
     Operators have placed the well under "control" and are limiting output
     to 19-22 barrels an hour in order to prolong its life.

     The area has been the scene again this week of hundreds of visitors.  A
     steady stream of cars throughout the day Sunday was on the road as
     people motored to the farm, 13 miles southwest of Mt. Sterling.

     The two large tank trucks operated by the H. E. Tracey Trucking company
     have continued their around-the-clock schedule of hauling the oil to
     Kincaid, Ill., where it is dumped in pipe lines.  The Ashland Oil
     company is purchasing the oil from the well.

     Interest, in oil prospects was gain intensified over the week end as
     another well, said by reliable sources as a producer of from 50 to 100
     barrels a day, was brought in west of Kellerville.  Mike Callahan of
     Pittsfield was driller of the well.

     Well drilling rigs were brought into the county in numbers over the
     week end and while some have already started drilling, others are being
     set.  At last count, about nine different rigs are being set to go or
     have started.

     The first well started after the discovery of the Davis well, was that
     on the Robison farm, in the valley several hundred feet and directly
     west of the Davis well.  Backers of this well are E. H. Hufnagel,
     Richard Moore and Jim Yakle.  This well is being drilled by J. B.
     Bushnell who brought in the one on the Davis farm.

     Another well has been started on the Henry Bush farm, dicretly to the
     east of the Davis well.

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