I just met a man at a party who apparently knows all about Kentucky geology. I told him that my daddy had an oil well when I was a child. We would drive down to Jumbo on occasion, climb the metal stairs on the side of the oil tank, lift the small cover, and smell the dollars - would we be rich? I still love the smell of unrefined oil. Needless to say, the oil of Lincoln County never made the international news, but did you know it is still pumping.
Yesterday, my cousin and I took a drive down to Jumbo and, surprise, there is a pumping well right out in the pasture! I am on an exploration to find out more about this shallow oil field...if you visit the Kentucky Geological Survey, you can see how many barrels of oil were produced over the years from this county. Or you can wait a couple of weeks to see what I've come up with. If you have an oil story, please write to me at susan.eriksson@gmail.com.
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