Boschong Subscribers, How many of you knew that not only did Pennsylvania produce a lot of coal, gas and steel, but oil. My Uncle Casey worked for Kendall Oil in Pennsylvania. And they also drilled for oil in Ohio. The reference to Wood County and Murphytown would have to be Ohio since there isn't a town or county by those names in Pennsylvania. I'm not sure which Bushon farm this would be on in Ohio as there were a lot of them there. Maybe someone knows? --------------------- The Titusville Herald Titusville, Pennsylvania Wednesday, 5 April 1899 Page 3, Column 3 LATE OIL NEWS ----------------------- NEWS FROM THE SOUTHWEST A Good Deep-Sand Well near String town. Pittsburg, 4 April -- (Special) -- In the deep sand territory near Stringtown, Tyler county, the South Penn Oil company has drilled in its No. 2 on the P. G. Wright farm and has a good producer. The well made five barrels the first 18 hours and is still drilling/ In the same district the South Penn Oil company has shot its No. 14, F. R. Ball and increased its production to 160 barrels a day. The wildcat on the Garner farm, north of Proctor, Wetzel county, has been drilled through the Big Injun and is a duster in that formation: it will probably be drilled to the Gordon. Southwest of the Murphytown development in Wood county, Barnsdall & Co. have drilled in a test well on the BUSHON farm and have a 20 barrel producer. The location is slightly in advance of developments and gives sufficient room for several locations in the vicinity of the new strike. Operations in the Murphytown district have been very quiet for several months, that end of the extension having been very thoroughly drilled over. Both the Ogdin and Hendershot pools have very few locations left and no hope of extending either in any direction. -------------------- Researched and Submitted by Gloria Neiger Bushong