Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-31
GAS AND GREASE,

Notes of Gaseous and Oily Nature.
Haley L Brother, who have the contract 70
laying the city pipe for the West Virgins
Natural Gas Company, and Booth an,
Flynn, contractors for the Manufacturers
Company, will commence ditching an,
laying pipe in the city to day. The forme
will commence at Water and Fourteenth
streets, aud the latter at Main and Thirc
streets The Haley Brothers will give th,
preference to Wheeling workmen.
Away in the early sixties, before the
drill had opened up myriads of the olespen,
ous substance in the fields OF Penns ylvaria
the adventurous operator found his way 10
Volcano. twelve miles east of Parkersburg
where many wells we're sunk and good oil
tows struck. These wells proved to be
'stsyers and at the present time this dis.
trict produces about two hundred barrels
daily OF lubricant which brings four dollars
per barrel at the wells. There is a univer.
sal belief among the oil men Of that yicini
ty that oil in large quantities underlies the
oil horizon now being worked in that 10.
callty, and they seem determined to prove
or disapprove this theory BY sinking deem
wells. 1t is the intention of the Monn,
Farm Oil Company and Ponteas Stiband
Company to drill two wells to reach the
third sand, generally supposed TO be about
Z,2OO feet below the surface in that locality,
Things are hustling in the Washington
county oil fields Craig 4 Co. have leased
their lions share of the }. P. Fergus estate
Immediately east of the Cameron farm. for
a cash bonus OF $50 au acre and graded
royalty, which is prircely in its terms. only
provided that wells Of the Smith pool type
be struck on the property If wells be less
than fifty barrels day, the owner of the
land gets the regular eighth, and starting
from this the royalty increases proportion.
atelY with the sizs Of the we'll. A site has
already been agreed upon, and derrick is
shooting up, On the Cameron farm the
Belmont company are running up
three rigs, which are named No 1, No
and No &. Cameron Nos. 2 and Z may
possibly make their debut in the top Of the
'and within ten days. Vandergrift and.
company have taken good care of their
Barre lease. Two gushers completed,
hree wells drilling and derrick finished
saturday. sums up their operations on that
arm: The Belmont company has compile
ed the rig for Smith No. 1. |. Willetts
las located taree wells along the southern
boundaries OF his Munce purchase, which |
will be known TO o:ldom as Willetts s, .
md 10. The rigs are up for the first two,
While that OF the No. 10 is bulldog.
rhe Central Oil Company, of Wheel.
ng, recently organized, will drill their
maiden well on the Martin farm, the rig for
which is building. Reed 4 Bryson, of
Washington, are putting up q rig on the
irs. Miller lot, south of tho Barre farm.
'he Union Oil Company and Associated
PRODUCERS we'll in the Morgan orchard,
commenced spadding on Thursday. Coast
Sons, having been forced by an uncom.
fishing job to abandon their No.
on the W. W. Smith farm, ars build.
1g rig fer their No. 2, which
further south, and Tor ths,
eason better located, presumably, with re.
ard TO the gas line. They are also erect.
lg q rig on the Captain Schmidt farm,
onsiderably south and far il advance OF
evelopments. McEeever & Co q we'll be.
an spuddiDs on Thursday, on the lot OF
udge Hart. All the foregoing gossip ap.
lies 10 the Smith pool aud TO what is con.
dered, ir the light OF present develop.
'enta, to be within its Jurisdiction. In
Yere e divide The '"E5i E5oihG;iis Of So with such q
usher as ThaJer. No. 2. makes operators
D pretty slow Shjrls, No 3, is favorably
Gated tos big well, as things go now,
bile Nc Kinney, No. 2, on Montgomery !!
rm, ought not 10 come in many lengths
shind it, In the middle ground, between q
e two Boola, there is great deal OF brisk 3
,ss in operations A rig is up on the
utherG limits OF the J B Wilson farm, G
lolher on the Shannon lot one on the
'illism Wolf lot, and one is to 90 up on
q Murdock lot. Three lie are drilling .
,sides the Byers which is in rand
safe ItInUar.