The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-06
NATURAL GAS WELLS
Ion wHnpLNals usE ooaIINe q
Alta Great Rate in the Pennsylvania Fields.
Plenty Of Gas as soon ms this Pipes are
Rsady-Ths Excitement on the sub.
jspt In Washington County Grows

The Pittsburgh TINES OF yesterday has
the following interesting natural gas news,
The natural gas fever In the north end
Of Washington county has taken amore
violent turn during the past week, and all
the way from the Hickory field 10 the
Allegheny county line the farmers are
taking more interest in the gas than their
harvesting, The YandeTgriits, operating
for the West Virginia Natural Gas Conn
panyo Of Wheeling, have leased nearly all
the large farms in Robinson township
within the past few days, among them be-
ing those Of Hon. John N, Mcdonald,
Richard Crooks, Robert BAmiord and sew
eEal OF the Bailey farms, These land
owners, all being wealthy and not In any
particular hurry to lease their property,
demanded and secured very liberal terms
from the operators; $500 o year for each
producing gas we'll, and In case oil was
struck, one-eighth Of the product OF all
wells under 95 barrels and one-iourth OF
all over IS barrels, Wells guaranteed to
ba finished within seven months and
work will be commenced at once on sew
eral Of them,
The emulation between the several
companies in securing and developing the
territory is much more spirited than at
any time since the first Washington coun-
ty gas wells were struck aud every avail.
able farm Is being taken up or negotiated
for,
The Washington Natural Gas Company,
which has heretofore been operating
rather unostentatlOusly, has also thrown
itself into the current and is pounding
away on two wells IN the Hickory field,
from which 1t will supply the Peoples
Pipeage Company In Allegheny, and an
other well has been located on the widow
Parkinson lease by the same company,
which will be started this week. The
Washington Company's well, on the Eliza
Carlisle farm, which had run down pretty
low, as 1t was only drilled about four feet
In the sand last fall, was started to drill
deeper on Saturday and had not gone more
than Ave feet into the sand until she was
blowing at least 200 pounds and with every
stroke OF the beam was roaring wiCkeder
and throwing out handiuls Of good looking
sand.
1850 Saturday evening the third bit
went through the hard streak, and the
big wrenChes about the derrick went
flying around like as many straws, "It's
500 FOUNDER, anyway, and second to no
well have seen in Washington county,"
said Danny Murphy, the big well boss,
as he stood looking at the dizzy blush
looking column oil gas around the cable.
Danny was particularly exultant over the
result, as he had been insisting for some
time that the well was q good one and
abouId ha drIllad 1aapar Tho kno1a t,ara
drawn at 1850 yesterday afternoon and a
blowout pipe was laid from the well out
into the field, where the escaping gas had
blown all the grass of the ground for
several yards around the end Of the pipe
In few minutes and cavity several
inches deep was worn In the hard ground.
The company's new we'll on the MCCarroll
farm Ia down about 100 feet and from this
time on 1t intends to drive things with
more OF a rush than heretofore, as some Of
the, stockholders and officers, among
whom are Simon Cameron, Assistant
Postmaster General Hazen and Hon.
Samuel F. Barr, Of Harrisburg, are be-
coming deeply interested.
Just over the hill from the Eliza Carlisle
well, the Wheeling Natural Gas Company
had an immense roarer TO come in on Fri
day night, this being the third Of their
eight wells located In the district that has
come in heavy within the past few weeks,
This last we'll and the one before 1t are
both over 400.pound blowers.
The Royal Company has four good wells
in the district and will be supplying
steubenville with gas within week or ten
days, as its lines are now laid TO the Ohio
river and connections are beingmade from
the wells to the main.