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1'*-^ ’ V- •' s -- J lt;-.:i)PERA130NS IN : i SJ MARSHALL FIELD. .... i '.U•■•4 ' - ■'• \ . Five good-oil wells haVe becn^^com- U P; • pleted in the M^arshaU oil field /during liur• .j'ithe past two'-months^.VThe .wells are con ;• '■' located oh the' IJffick, sisters' land,* Uie We. .Elmer Cox ’ land, .the-Fred,,Hewitt T.;-;]and, tiio CjiarlesfHughes tod, and thnthe PJrank' Cole;land, ThesVv well's for are%ow all on the. pump ahdjpfodu'c- groIng, and make 'a-.total of thirty .wells has now completed’in this*'field. ,\f ' ^ cou' Many Inside, locations are yet .tOj^be Am'drilled. ' TWs- field has/.proven 'to/be one of the.best'yet, found In Eastern Ulinoifl, ah^'SvestemVLndiaha: 'It is reported that the production holds up at a steady rate/which is the customary result in wells , In the Devonian formation from which/.'this field |.; is producing. ’ • The . Devonian,', fonna^ tion is adong'lastlhg produclng'zone and the production does not go down rapidly as it does in the McClosky fonmation, and some other jtormations which are .the main producing formations In'the fields'In, the southern part of IlUhois. ^ r. \ KThe Contlnentai Oil Company is the owner .of several blocks of oil and gas leases located in southern Martins- 5 ville'vTownship and. Orange Tovimship.It. ia reported that drilling will start, on these blocks before the end of thisyeaj. • 'Largo blocks of acreage are under ^ ? lease jn Wabash township. Darwin , township and Anderson township ^ pa * I Oimani.V. _
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Marshall Herald
Marshall, Illinois, US
Fri, Sep 07, 1951
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