The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-29

the deposit. Why they are not all now
producing, Is attributable to various
causes. An oil well is very delicate
piece of machinery, strange as the state
ment may seem, and score OF causes are
liable to interrupt, either wholly or
wells have "burned up" from the 1gnt-
ton of the highly inhammable gas
which abounds in them, and not unfre-
Quently they are "tapped" by an adja-
cent we'll and cease flowing altogether,
q complaint for which there Is no reme-
dy. At present there are nineteen
wells upon Cow Run which are pump
ing or flowing oil, and these yield in
the aggregate about $50 barrels per day.
or an average of little more than ID
barrels each. This sounds small, but
the extremes are five barrels on the one
side and 90 barrels on the other.
AS we descend the stream the hrst
well we find is the Wilson well, now
producing six barrels per day. Next
below this is the Jones we'll, which has
the smallest yield of any now in opera
ton, pumping but three barrels per
day; the Warren we'll No l., (owned by
Isaiah Warren 81 Co., of Wheellng)
which produces Is barrels per day; the
Weir well u barrels; the Wilson well
20 barrels; and the Dewey we'll barrels.
All these wells are pumped. Still fur
Their down are the Kirker, the Miles,
and the Hill wells, all OF which are do
ing nothing, from the fact that they
have nothing to do.
The next producing we'll Is owned by
Logan 81 Co., (of Wheeling) and is
flowing some oil.-probably four or
five barrels per day. The Florence
we'll, which has Just been re-opened by
torpedo, at depth of sos feet, will
probably pump fifteen or sixteen bar
rels per day. The Allen & Pittman
we'll, which stands on the right bank of
the stream, Gall the others named are
summer, and since that has not been
doing much. 1t is now flowing five or
six barrels per day. Upon the left
stands the Elm Tree well, one OF the
first sunk, and one of the most product
i've of this region. For time this we'll
produced rs barrels of oil per day, but
by some means managed to take nEe,
and is now yielding nothing. Nearly
opposite this stand the Hill we'll,
pumping 5 barrels, and the Warren
well No. 2, 6 barrels per day. Then
comes two wells whose names are
very significant of departed hopes
Dead Dog we'll No. l, and 2, the latter
of which is now pumping barrels per
day. To the right of the stream stands
the old Newton we'll, which was sunk
II think) in 1861, and yielded oil for
seven years. This we'll was only bored
200 feet (the average uepLn OF the ur5L
Cow Run wellsj for part of the time
at the rate f75 barrels per day. at
present it is doing nothing.
Nearly opposite the latter and scatter
cd along the right bank, we see the
Plank Derrick we'll pumping six bar
rels per day, the Jersey Company we'll
10 barrels, the VandaI we'll 16 barrels,
the Brooks well 10 barrels, and a we'll
whose name do not now recall, which
pumps six barrels per day. The Mount
Vernon we'll stands just across the
"Run" from the Vandal we'll, and is
now pumping 15 barrels per day. OPP
posite the Brooks well is the Perkins,
Hervey 81 Co., No. l, and fifty yards be-
low 1t the No. 2 we'll, owned by the
same company. These two wells are
the most productive here, the two flow
ing ninety barrels of oil per day. No.
l was fret "struck" two years ago last
November, and precisely two years
after that time, further drilling hit
fresh vein, which has been flowing
ever since. No. has been flowing
since the 22d of October last, and the
two show no signs of cessation.
Hope to give you more tomorrow.
Yours, j. Il. Is.