Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-19
OIL AND GAS.
What n weII-versed Gentleman Says Of
Well-BorinE.

Well-borfng.
A gentleman, well versed in the petro
! leum industry, is thus quotedin the Wash
ington Reporter: "All large gas we'll
have been found on anticlinsls. No larg'
oil wells-and l know of no paying we'll
have been struck on anticinals. AL
companies now drilling successfully fol
gas, employ q geologist to hunt up the anti
clinals, hence there is little danger o.
striking oil when in search Of gas, un!es,
through mistake of the geologist. All
snticlinsls are not gas bersing, nor are
the synclinsls productive Of oil, excepting
in particular localities. When all the gas
fields now known, become exhausted, as
most surely they will, it may become as
difficult to find big gas wells as big
oil wells. Already several gas wells
drilled for gas on the Washington gas belt
have been failures. Manufacturers from
ell directions are now investigating the ad.
vsntages Of gas for fuel purposes, and the
probabilities are that if one-tenth can be
done in the manufacture of gas from crude
oil and water now claimed by inventors, it
will be only little while until there is
such demand at home fer this purpose
male on petroleum stocks as to deplete
the tanks and raise the price to limit be.
yond which consumption for fuel purposes
may cease. Nevertheless, il the Ohio
fields increase greatly in their production,
manufacturers will be encouraged in the
use of oil and gas made from fuel for their
works
The Washington Reporter, of last even
ing, had the following:
Hall was drilled some yesterday, and
increased her production to about 1000
barrels in "a hours.
Union on the Clark made small flow
this morning. She is still drilling
Gordon 4 is now pumping It's barrels
per day. Hess , has fallen 10 Is barrels
in q hours.
Vandegrift 4 Co. have located Hall ; on
that farm 700 feet north OF No. 2. A rig
will be erected Immediately.
The Mcbride has recovered the tools and
will begin to day.
Farley No. 2 is 10 feet below the Gordon |
sand and dry. She will be drilled to the
Tourth sand.
The Washington Export and Refining
Company on Wednesday organized BY
,lectlpg R. ii. Thayer, President; David
Bsttmsn, Treasurer; Samuel Hszlett, Sec.
.etary, and the following Board Of Direc.
ors: A. B. Caldwell, Samuel Hazle,t
K, Il. Thayer, Joseph S'ett
,eimer, Buffalo; NJ. A. Bettman, New
York. The stockholders not mentioned
above are + 81. Dyer. Washington; d. Ii.
Thsyer, Gustave Herr, Bradford, Pa Da.
lid Bettman, New York. The capital stock
8 $50, 900, in shares of 500 each, which |
Vill be increased as necessity demands.
The refining capacity OF the works will be
100 barrels per day. 1t is understood the
erection OF stills will commence shortly
lear this borough.
The McKeever Oil Co.'S well on the
4ead Works property struck several
months ago, is s,ill doing from 70 to "a
,arrels of oil daily, making an elegant lit.
le producer. Within few reds Of il,
little southeast, is the Caldwell x Marsh,
md about the same distance nearly north
tands the Gantz. The former is produc.
ng l6 to Is barrels per day and the latter
20 to 35. A singular thing is the fact
hat the Gantz is doing nearly ell its oil
rom the Gordon sand, while that from the
,ther two ID produced from the Gantz and
,0foot horizons.
At Wellsville the two year old son ct
Dell Pick was frightened to death Thurs-
lay night. While lying the natural gss
nairin front Of bis parents residence, the
,ss was ignited ard the child became 10
frightened OF the roar that be died in con.
,ulsous in q few hours
An Eastern syndicate composed Of Phil.
have lessed over million
Icres Of natural gas territory in kentucky.
They have secured an exclusive right
rom the Kentucky Legislature 10 furnish
natural gas for fifteen years. They have
truck three big wells seventeen miles
rom New Albany which they expect TO
each shortly to supply DePauw's plate
lass works and the city OF Louisville.