Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-08
THE GAS COMMITTEE.
THE MENBERs0F COUNCIL IN WASHINGTON
AND PTTTSBURG.
Thew Are Shown Around the Smoky
City by Gas Company Officials
Oil and Gas News
in General.

The special council committee appointed
some ten days ago to visit the various
cities and towns in Western Pennsylvania
and Eastern Ohio where natural gas Is used
or is being introduced, left this city Tues
day morning for Little Washington. Thu
committee consisted of Messss. p. b. Dob
bins. T. C. Moffat, II. E, Weisgerber, A.
C. Harrel, H. P. McGregorand w. F. Peter
son, the latter remaining behind, however,
and the members were headed by Hon. A.
I Sweeney, President of the Second Branch.
The members spent Tuesday in Wash
ington, visiting a number OF oil n gas
wells and examining the methods used In
LAYING pipe, and Tuesday evening m
harked via the B. & O.. for Pittsburg, where
they stopped al the Hotel Anderson. Yes
terday morning Mr.. E. NJ. Biglar, City
Engineer of Pittsburg, met the committee,
and accompanied by some of the officers OF
the Wheeling and West Virginia Natural
Gas companies, they put in the day acquir-
ing information.
President Sweeney, Mr.. Harrell, and
probably Others of the committee, returned
last evening, well pleased with their visit.
A MYSTERY.
A telegram from Little Washington, last
night, said:
T"The Vandergrift & Co. wildcat, on the
McMannis farm, near Taylorstown, Is the
ursa major that is doing the big growing
to-day. Information coming from VIA l
regard a reliable source claims that two
flows were made last night. Tankage will
be taken to the lease this evening. Strange
to say, none of the professionals
have visited the well this morning
for the purpose OF sizing IT mp, consequent
" opinion is divided as to whether the OIL
comes from the fifty-foot OF Gordon sands.
Nothing reliable from the Common well at
~Cannonsburg. RumOrs are as plenty as
blackberries in harvest time, but they bear
the stamp of senSationalism. The Willets
No. Z made q bad break last night by COM
mencing to flow copiOuSly from the top OF
the sand. In this respect the well stands IN
its own light and adds another to the long
list of surprises that have attended
drilling in Washington. John l..
McKinney's No. ., on the Montgomery
farm, was fair to look upon last night when
the drill was only two bits in the sand but
this afternoon when ten bits have been run
the well wears quite another feature. No
oil rs vet and the outlook discOuraglng,
although there are glorious chances re-
naming in the lower Pay streak where
Thayer No. 1 gets in her big work. Pat
G~allighan's well did thirty barrels the last
twentv-four hours, and is making brisk adj
vances toward the heart Ofthc sand. Cam
eron No. = unchanged. The Curry lot well
has not got clear of the 2O-foOt rock yet,
and drilling goes very slow"
The Reporter oflast evening said
After months of weary fishing the tools
have been recovered from the Coast and
Sons venture No. | on the Robert Wylie.
Yesterday the rig was repaired and drilling
resumed to-day. The hole is down 1000
feet.
THE MACKSBURG FIELD.
There were nineteen wells completed in
the MackSburg field during the month of
June, of which seventeen were deep wells
and two were shallow. OF the deep wells,
two were dry; of the shallow wells, one
was dry. The new production for the
month was 3IS barrels per day. Number
of wells drilling, II. Rigs up and build
ing, 10. Wells abandoned, l, by W. e.
Decker, on w. r. button farm. BOden &
Aiken completed a well on the Beed farm
on Cats Creek.
The Wheeling Natural Gas COmpany's
trench is completed down to Tenth street.