Newspaper: The Democrat-Message: December 9, 1959 - Oil Stories: Brown County, Illinois

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Headline:  Two More Good Wells Hit in Past Week

     Two new wells on the William L. Dvis farm in Buckhorn township were
     brought in during the past week.  The wells were promoted and are being
     managed by Eddie Reeves.

     The first well which is considered a good producer is located north of
     the discovery well about 660 feet.  The other well is an offset north
     and west of the discovery well.  Mr. Reeves is now in process of
     installing pumps and piping and expects to get production started with
     a matter of a couple of days.

     The Richard Moore well on the Robinson farm is being swabbed this week
     in efforts to make it a better producing well.  The other well located
     on the Carpenter farm which was also promoted by Moore, Jim Yakle and
     E. H. Hufnagel, will probably be acidized.  It has shown good oil
     prospects but the owners feel that it may be made into a more
     productive well.

     Several wells at other sites in that and other areas were completed
     this week but showed no prospects of oil.  There are at least 12 dry
     holes in that area which have been drilled since the discovery on the
     Davis farm in late October.

     The well on the William Fey farm, north of Mt. Sterling showed no
     traces of oil through the Divonian last week, but promoters of this
     well, and there are about 30 of them, have ordered drilling continued
     to the Trenton depth.  This will be a matter of several hundred more
     feet of drilling.

     The M & T Drilling company of Decatur, owned by M. H. Richardson, moved
     into the area last week.  This is the largest and first rotary drill to
     arrive.  They drilled a well on the Roberts farm, going as deep as the
     Trneton structure, but found no oil and have moved their equipment to
     the Pierce land in Adams county.

     Though there have been several dry holes result in all the drilling
     that has been going on in the past six weeks, there are many wells now
     being drilled and many more to follow.

     A well on the Flynt Parker farm drilled last week brought no results
     and the driller has now set up and stared on the Fred Hofsess farm.