Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-05-18
THE FLUID on THE FLOW.
All Eyes on the Eureka and Belmont Sec
tion---What the Wells are Doing.


Special telegram 20 he Register.
BELMONT, May Thousands of thoughts,
and thoughts that are golden. now centre
upon this little settlement on the Ohio river
road To not a few every square inch of
earth in the town is synonymous with the
biz shining silver dollars of Uncle Sam.
For a long time the Two Brothers well
held the field. Then there was another and
a bigger. the johnson No. |. Then there
was lull. And now. right on top of all
this excitement comes in two more wells 10
excite the operators. and unnerve the Specu-
lators who are on the fence. Two circum-
stances have transpired within
THE PAST FEW DAYS
10 strengthen faith in the soil One is the
opening up of the Story, Hart and Boss
well. in front of the hotel. and the other
the coming in of the Boss and Hart tri-
angular well. Just in the rear of the hos
telrv Both made their debut Thursday,
the day on which several other wells were
also expected in. The one in the rear of
the hotel is now showing from 100 10 $50
barrels, and the other about $50.
Likewise another circumstance, calcu-
lated TO calm the anxious ones, was the
johnson and Brockunier No. ,, on the
Locke property. She came in Thursday,
but showed only a small quantity of the
fluid, and it is thought by many to be prac-
tically dry She will be drilled down
about twenty feet further, however, and
torpedOed. BY this process there is pos
sibility of the fluid being brought to the
surface.
The poor showing of this well cannot be
explained by the operators who have
studied the territory. Unlike the Wash
ingtou, Pa, field the oil here does not run
in pools. but rather in veins or Streaks.
There appears TO be
TWO or THESE VEINS
i'm the Belmont section, most of the wells
following up the northeast and southwest
course. The Johnson and BrOckunier No.
> is located ON an east and west vein and
on the same vein of the two Boss and
Hart wells, Just in, making the Johnson
Brockunier showing at the outset all the
more iueXplicable.
The well ON the Hervey farm. on the Ohio
side. which was drilled in yesterday, is not
showing up very cOpiously. in fact, not
much of any, but despite the dubious out
look, BrOckunicr ct ais. have sufficient faith
i'm the property there 10 project another
well near by. which they are now doing.
Summarizing the situation, there are
about 40 rigs now i'm the Belmont field and
ers. and some or > frames going up.
Three, perhaps four, wells are expected in
i'm the next ten days. II will take two weeks
20 settle the destiny of the field Affairs
will then have assumed an aspect, for good
or bad where the cOnnoiSScur can pass
Judgment upon the field as an oil producing
centre. The seven producing wells are the
original Two Brothers well. showing 23O;
theJohnsou No. /. at $50; the Story, Hart
and Boss well NJ $50; the Triangular well
al from 200 10 300: the Boyle and Barnes
dali well AT 50 or 80. and another well own
cd bv the same party with a considerably
smaller output. The seventh producer,
though 40 present slight in output, is the
Johnson and Brockunier No . There are
some four wells projected on the east and
west vein. The next well 10 determine
the productivenesS of the belt running
northeast and southwest is the Ackerly
and Samuel's well on the Ohio side adjoin-
ing Harris we'll This well is expected in
Wednesday.
The Brown well, almost in proximity
with the track, is down GOO feet. Mr.
Brown is also putting up "a new rig neal
the track i'm the vicinity of the depot, and d
new one is being built on the poor farm 10y
BarneSdal and Moore The section
is rapidly being extended in the north
east. and ii is believed desirable oil proper
~ will be found clear through to the Wash
iurton field. although up 10 the present
time operators have prObed the southwest
end of the vein cautiously, on account on
the probable presence of gas, and gas Is not
what the bows are after. Property in this
cis section. however. has been leased re
Gently. and parties will likely start wei
there