Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-09
OIL AND GAS NEWS
rHy couNcII CouMIrTEElIN PLRASEI
WITH THEIR TRIP.
Tha Manufacturers Men Working at
Night--Gas Expected in St'u0-
vile by Monday.
General.

buro 10 look over the natural gas field ana
obtain information as to the proper laying
Of pipe, pressure, Sc, are much pleased
with their trip md speak in the hignest
terms of the Pittsburg officials and natural
vas men with whom they came in contact.
They saw the results of the tour cannot but
he most beneficial to the city, as the mem
hers have acquired q large fund of informa-
ton and obtained very clear ideas as 10
what is proper to be done regarding the IN
PRODUCTION of gas. While in the smoky
CITY the committee were entertained oy
the officials of the Wheeling and West VIZ
oinia Gas Company, and also received couf-
tesies from the CHARTERS and Philadelphia
officials. At one of the large tube works,
the men did some extra work after tneir
day was over, in order to show the 'isitors
the process of pipe manufacture. Inc com,
mittee will probably report to oouncl
next Tuesday.
GAS NOTES.
The Manufacturers Company had ABOUT
thirty men at work last night running
their trench across Market street, near the
creek bridge. M
The derrick men on the line ofthe Wheel
ing Natural Gas Company, above the city,
struck Wednesday. Officials of the com
pany say that last week, in making out the
nav roll. their wages were put at 81 per day
through a mistake, and when the error was
discovered and rectitied the men quit work.
On the Ohio side, the Wheeling Natural
Gas Company's trench has been extended
south as Ear as the Government DAM, In
sERackn river. There is still o break IN
Bridgeport, however. ,,,
The Royal Gas Company completed the
LAYING of its first line across the river at
Steubenville at II o'clock yesterday morn
ing. and the second line was ut once com,
menced. 1t is thought that the gas will
be.turned on by next Monday.
THE OIL COUNTRY.
A telegram from Canonsburg says:
The Manufacturers well on the Con-
nor farm still remains the same as 1t has
been from the first, a mystery, n is
likely 10 be, rs it is kept undeS close guard.
A visit made to the well yesterday by
Inc WTlItT tOllllIlIlS tGt lttA VI IN
saving. No person not interested in the
well is permitted to come within 3OO
Yards of the venture. Neither Will
those having charge Of the well, nor any
of the members of the company impart
any information either pro or con and as q
result the mystery still remains a mystery
to the outside world. BY the way it could
be seen by the naked eye from q 300-yard
standpoint beneath the shadow Of q locust
tree, that the drill was working, and by
the aid of a glass could be seen occasionally
a slight spray %emenating from the well, in
dicative that there was not sufficient pres
sure of gas to force out of the we'll the oil
or salt water or whatever fluid it might
be. Oil could be seen in small pools stand
ing alongside the running brook, an evil
denco that oil had been running to waste
from the we'll or from some other
oil depository unknown to the writer some
time since. Yesterday scores of strangers,
fat and sleek looking fellows, Supposed to
be directly or indirectly interested in oil,
visited u town. Securing o rig they
hied themselves Corners well-ward- bound
and returned about ~ wise rs they were
hefare leaving their homes. Those of our
! citizens interested in the venture, are 70
highly elated at the prospects Of their
likely to soon become millionaires, that
fears are being entertained lest they might
lose their balance, and il Is causing some
anxiety of mind amongst the citizens.
At Little Washington the situation il
about as follows:
The alarm over the Canonsburg and
TaylorstOwn we'll has abated in o great de-
gree since yesterday. There is no change
at either to-day, OF the two the TaylOrs'
town looks by far the more dangerous,
The Guflcy and Miller, IN the John b,
Miller farm, considerably in advance Of
present developments, west of north, got Q
showing of oil in the fifty foot sand day
before yesterday. The well was shut down
at once and Gutfey was invited to come out.
Taking IN the situation at q glance ht
closed leases OH several adjoining farms,
notably the William HOugh prop.
erty, which comprises q large tract Of land.
The discovery of oil has been kept a pro.
found secret, but it leaked out this morn
ing, and since MIR. Gufley has made his
land deals he il not much concerned at the
matter becoming known. One bit will be
run in the sand to-day, and the immediate
actions of the owner will be influenced
more or less by its results. No change Of
the Willet No. 7, Gallihan No. / and Cam.
eron No. 2. John McKinney's well on
the Montgomery farm is through the Cor
don sand and is as dusty as the National
pike is to-day. It's failure tends to confirm
the theory that there are two separate
pools in what IL known rs the Gordon
pool, with n well-defined dry streak be.
tween them.