Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-11
THE GREASE GUSHERS.
WHEELING OIL COMPANY AND M'KINNEY
BROS. CROWDING LINES.
Hess No. 4 Surprises the Field by Showing Upon
the Top of the Fifty Foot Sand
Other Notes Of Interest.

The Wheeling Oil Company has certain
" been lucky in its oil strike, for while
they brought in a respectable and paying
gusher, their neighbos in the almost M
mediate vicinity struck dry holes, and
now there promises to be a little trouble
caused, no doubt. by the jealousy and
chagrin of the company that got left. Last
evenings Washington Reporter contains
the following in regard to the matter:
Considerable i'll feeling has manifested
itself within the past few days between the
Wheeling Oil Company. operating tie
Western Pennsylvania Agricultural So
ciety's ground, and the Mckinney Bros,
who have a lease on the A. J. Montgomery
farm, adjoining. The former sunk n well
on their property and a gusher of no mean
capacity was the result. A second derrick
was erected and drilling begun. Mckin-
ney Brothers, on the other hand, put down
two wells on their lease, the first of which
is but a small producer and the second a
dry hole. After expanding considerable
money and receiving but little
in return, they concluded to sink
a third well and for this
purpose erected a rig but a very short
distance from the Fair Grounds line.
Their friends across the way, believing
that propriety demanded that the rig
should stand further back, cndeavored to
have the Mckinney Bros. move back.
This they refused to do and for two or
three days efforts have been made to draw
the matter to a satisfactory solution. Not
succeeding in this, the Wheeling Company
are now engaged in tearing down the rig
of their No. , for the purpose of moving 1t
as close to the line of the other parties as
possible, where drilling will begin. The
hole at the well Just abandoned had reach
ed the depth of 200 feet.
Hess No. 4 struck the top of the 5O-toOt
last night about nine O'Clock and showed
I'D at once when the well was shut down.
By daylight she had made four nice flows,
but the oil has all gone to waste, owning
to the fact that there was no tankage. \
tank is now in course of erection and pipe
line connection is also being made with
the 300 barrel tank ut the Hess No. }.
When this il done drilling will be resumed.
Cameron 7 yesterday got the sand and
filled up on the first bit. Seven other bits
were run when the bit wen into slate.
The Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe
Lines have erected II tanks on the land
lersed from Major John II. Ewing, near
Ewing's Station, and have eleven more in
course of erection. On Thursday they
leased Is additional acres. and will erect
6 others making thirty-two i'll all. They
average more than 80, 900 barrels capacity.
Gordon No. D is through the Gordon
sand. She made no improvement after
getting the first pay streak near the top
of the sand. Her production is about 80
barrels per day. 1t isprobable she will be
pumped.
Pipe line connection is being made with
the Gufiey & Co., well on the II. NJ. Hall.
This well is understood TO be doing about
20 barrels a day.
The cable broke yesterday afternoon at
Thayer 3, while clearing her out, and the
tools dropped to the bottom. The No. 1 Is
down $3.50 feet in the stray, and will
hardly get the Gordon sand before Mon
day.
Willets11, shot Yesterday, either bridged
over or else the easing collapsed. Sne did
not respond. This is the well located
within a few feet of the Manifold !.