On the Egbert farm there is an old well which was abandoned years ago, but as the hole could not be taken up and removed with the rig, it was allowed to remain. In this of course there was nothing very remarkable. At about three o’clock yesterday afternoon, however, something occurred at this old abandoned hole worth making mention of. Near that hour it started spouting out oil, water and dirt at a surprising rate. It sent a column into the air, over 45 feet in height.

This strange sight was witnessed by Mr. Francis of Columbia, and another gentleman, who went to the well. The seed, bag and the sediment which had been for years accumulating in the well were thrown out. It continued flowing in this way only a short time and then subsided. But when our informant left the spot, the oil was bubbling up out of the hole and running to waste, he judged, at the rate of a hundred barrels per day.

A new well is being put down a short distance from this old one. There is also a fifty barrel well on the same lease. What has occasioned this remarkable show of oil in the old well is not of course known. This well is situated above the old Maple Shade well. This would seem to indicate that the Egbert farm is again destined to be the scene of active operations. And if these operations should prove to be paying, the attention of oil producers will be called to all the abandoned territory along the creek, and in other parts of the oil region.

– Titusville Courier