The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-16
aOl rOR WEST YlRGINIAl
The on Production Of the Future In
this stats-Bad News from the TaylOra,
town Field,

The OH Production Of the Future In
this stats-Bad News from the TaylOra,
town Field.
West Virginia Is now the Mecca Of
the oil men. All old and experienced
hands in the feld agree that Dolls Run
and its surrounding territory Is the fu-
ture oil field, and that Wheeling will In
a short time be the oil City, as Bradford
was In former days, "0n to West Yir'
ginial" Is the cry, and many are now
leasing territory all through this State,
The driller, tool dresser and pumper join
in the cry with the producer and con-
tractor.
The INTRLLIdRScER's correspondent al
Taylorstowp writes as follows; YOU
correspondent, alter a tour through this
oil field, can state tTuthfplly that Tay'
lorstown in the near future will cease "a
be one Of the oil centers, for the simple
reason that this once prolific field Is fast
falling Oft in its production, The wells
on the famous Knox farm, where lucky
John McKeown and others were for
tunate enough TO strike adozen gushers,
which started otfRt from thirty to ninety
barrels per hour, are now doing less
than half their production OF three
months ago. Several dry holes have
come in within the last month in differ
emit sections Of the district, which adds
10 the evidence Of the painful truth that
Taylorstown has seen her best days,
The William Orothers farm has produced
three dry holes within as many Weeks,
The Marsh and Caldwell, at Coffee sta
ton, the Brownlee, toward the southern
extension, the Vincent Blaney No "A and
others, have also added to the long
array OF busters, and those now
producing are rapidly falling of-as fol
instance, the John McMannis farm, re,
Gently purchased by the Washington OIL
Company, Is doing but about one-iourth
the production 1t had six months ago
The Marsh & Caldwell wells are now
doing with pumping abont the same, IN
proportion TO what they flowed thii
time last year. Shooting and cleaning
out seems to have but little effect Ia In
creasing the supply Of the greasy fluid,
The Kennedy, Wilson, Knox, Salvation
Buchanan, Anderson and hostsof Other
wells OF less calibre, have been given
twenty quart shots, and q thorough
cleaning out, but the cost over.runs the
profit, for the productive increase Ii
scarcely visible, With the exception OIL
the Jim MCMannis No. 4 and Willetts
No. z, on the White farm near the Balti
more & Ohio railroad trestle, nothing has
been developed lately that will pay FOL
the amount invested. The more wells
put down tho greater the expense oil
production. Fishing jobs and plugged
holes arc the order OF the times, and
contractors are having a hard row TO hoe
here at present, Two Of our prominent
contractors are now advertised at Sheriff.
sale, on suits Of the Jareckl Manuiactur.
ing Company. Their several strings oil
tools, cables, ETC., will 20 at sacrifice,
The price paid per foot, 81 10, will not
cover the expenses incurred, and other
contractors will soon follow in the wake
OF these. The Wilson well near Middle
town Is now much watched hole,
They are having bad luck, however, as
they have pulled the casing three dif'
ierent times. and now HAYES fishing job.
She Is down about 100 feet. All'the
territory in that district Is now taken up,
The Wheeling Natural Gas Company
holds a quantity, and Of late several
Wheeling capitalists have secured some
leases. John D. France, Joe McGivern
and ]. DeCoursey hold 1000 acres,
Should the venture, however, prove Q
duster, their leases will be dead wood
on their hands. On the other hand, Il
II be a producer, their fortunes are made,