Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-31
OIL AND GAS.
What is Being Done I'm the Way of Securing
Oily Fortunes.


Four bits were run at the Taylorstown
well Thursday from which no appreciable
improvement could be noticed. Drilling
was in progress yesterday mording. Ad-
vices last evening have moi. been 50 circum-
stantiai as they have heretofore but it is
indicated that no change in the producing
gait has been made. 1t is also stated that
the drill quit pounding Thursday night,
in hard, blue sand and that il
passed into slate yesterday forenoon.
1t looks now very like the well has been
fully discounted and that Taylorstown
cannot come under the shadow of ursus
major again till some hundred days hence
when the new crop of wells begin TO come
in.
The f. NJ. Hukill we'll on the MCGOWAN
farm was the field attractic yesterday, but
no developments were made up TO last re
ports. The well is one of the most inn
portant drilling in the Washington field
proper and it may be expected 10
have something to say about the
southwest extension of the fifty-foot
rock of the Smith pool. With respect TO
the old Gantz, it is located about mile
south, 90 east. The manufactures Nat
ural Gas Company's Mcbride we'll shut
down Thursday on top of the tifty-foot
sand to move back the boiler. The No. 4
Taylor, of the Union Oil Company, got n
second pay ,treak Thursday night and is
doing $50 barrels. This well, evidently,
won't be behind the No. 1 Taylor, which
got nine fertile streaks and is one Of the
steadiest producers in the field.
The situation on the Willetts farm
is unchanged. The No. Z. Willetts
has not varied five barrels a day i'm pro-
duction for some time, which indicates
that there is plentiful supply in that vi
cinity. The situation in the Gordon pool
is unchanged with the exception Of the
Shirls No. = which has increased the pro-
ductiOn from to barrels an hour from
the bottom of the stray sand. The old
Hess No. after months ofiishing and dis
appointment is clear and ready Ia seek after
the Gordon sand. Drilling WIS resumed
yesterday The Natural Gas Company of
West Virginia has several wells in the
Hickory field which may get in Saturday.
L. NJ. Hukill & Co., who own the Nc
Gowan well, have about 300, 600 acres of
land leased in Greene county and in Mo-
nongalia county, W. Va. Nearly $50, 900
has been spent by the company in Greene,
from whichyery scant returns have been
yet received. The drillers at the Wheeling
Oil Company's Fair Grounds well will mill
pin on the stem which is lodged in the
bottom of the hole, in place Of the one
which was broke off. The Monongahcla
test well, on the Grail farm, is several bits
in the Gordon sand, but Unexpected crude
has not yet come to the surface. The
directors are Sanguine and have ordered
drilling to continue.
The West Virginia Natural Gas Company
was trcnching on the DIR. Mccoy farm, two
miles from the city, yesterday, coming in
They have reached TO within one mile of
the end of the line which thecontract calls
for The ditchcrs on the other end of the
line have also reached n point about mile
beyond Elm Grove, and both gangs expect
TO finish up about the same time.
Shirls , is still drilling in the stray, and
has increased the production to barrels
per hour.
The Mcloy is down 1900 feet and drill
ing in hard rock
The casing at the abandoned Lone Pine
well is being pulled. 1t will I've used at
one of the wells Of the Peoples Light x
Heat Company.