The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-23
PARKER OIL FIELD.
VICINITY OF EAIRvIEw.

| VICINITY OF EArRvIEw.
A we'll was struck on the McCaffsrty farm
near f ,irvipw last week which is reported
/ at IS barrels.
The Backs and Galley well, o0 the Banks
farm, between Pettolia ana Ksrns CITY.
owned by Banks and Galley. started to
pump on Saturday last and is doing IS barr
rss per day.
The Coulter and Frothingham, No 2, on
the Banks farm, commenced to pump lsst
Friday and 10 good for IS bsrrele per day
The owners are Golfer Bros ana FrOthing
ham.
A we'll which was completed on land O
Robert Fowler, adjoining the borough oil
Fairview on the East side, started up at the
! rate OF about 100 barrels per day on We'd
uesday of last week. Fowler, Mitchell and
others are the fortunate owners.
A strike was made on the Riddle farm,
last Saturday a week which started TO flow
at tho rate OF 800 barrels per day. 1t has
since settled down to l75 barrels. J. A. Al
derson, o. D. Ayers, VIM. Bradley, W. H.
Ferguson and others are The owners.
Another we'll on the Riddle farm owned
by Mr. Bucks and Others was struck last
Saturday and is pumping about l25 barrels
per day.
A new we'll commenced pumping on the
VIM. McCsfFerty farm on the 2nd of July,
aud ten days thereafter it was yielding oil
at the rate OF about 200 barrels per day
This we'll was sunk by Grisweii Brothers,
and has been sold to Reed aud others for
$4,000 1t always seemed to US that the
McCafferty farm was too handsome piece
OF property to bs spoiled for agricultural
purposes BY sinking oil wells thereon; but
now that hostilities have been commenced
sod large we'll struck, every field on the
plantation will doubtless be thrown open
aud drilled over before many years.
The Clymsx we'll, ou the McCIssry farm,
near Fairview, wss recently torpedosd
aud some time thereafter took fire from
How of gas and oil. The derrick and engine
house were entirely destroy :and machine
~ injured 10 some extent.
VICINITY OF GREECE CITY.
The well owed BY Zsigler, Myley, Stew
ar. and Hulings, located on the Husseiton
srsc. at the South end Of Greece City, and
west Of the Butler road, has been pumping
for some ten days. II started at nssr 200
barrels per day, and ten days after comuen-
cling was still averaging . daily yield Of
over 100 barrels.
A we'll owned BY Collins Bros, ou the
Campbell farm, in Greece City, hes been
drilled some depth into the third sand {;
large quantities Of oil and gas are flowing
therefron, and it promises 10 prove good
one.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Gussia we'll, on the Grant farm, pene.
trated the third sand on Wednesday morn..
ing aud flowed twenty feet above the dsrs
rick. 1t promises to be the best we'll on the
farm. o. G. Brown, Jas. Z. Brswn and
r. B. A leu ale the owners.
Some OF the old speoula.ors who operated
10 the Oil Region in 1868 arc eouiog back
10 hunt up their leases and lends. We hear
Of them at several points making prepsrs-
.ions to test lands which were then abandon.
cd IS worthless.
10 Kentucky, oil 10 obtained at depth o
500 feet although some wells produce q,
less than one hundred. A sample Of oil
from that section bss recently been exhibit
ed. which shows a snAoiHe oravitv NJ 70 de-