Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-09-26
OIL Field NOteS.

The Enterprise Oil Co., composed OF
Latchaw, Strohecker and other men of
Harmony and Zelienople strck hundred
bar-eler on the Frank Wilson farm which
/ adjoins the Allen to the West Tuesday
| afternoon.
The Zelienople Oil Cos well on the
| West is reported dry.
Rciseman & Co. and Black 4 Co.'S well-
on the Hiram Graham are each rated at
100 barrels, and number of wells are go
ing down on the Thomas Graham.
The well on the Chess farm, mile north
of developments is being worked for a
mvs.eiy. They have little oil there and
plenty of gas.
Forest Oil Co.'S in the Stewart is in and
good, and their No. /, on the Stamm is
rated at 50 barrels
Abrams d Co. ON the Hazlett is a 100
bal,eler.
The j. c. Brandon farm now produces
more oil ,hau any other in this field.
The well on the 4. Brenneman is now
producing 6j day.
| Purviance & Hazeletts 6 on the Hum
phrey is rated at 150 barrels; Sutton d
Chris;ie's on the Winner at 10; Campbell
a Co.'S 5 on the Marshall at. l25, Waldron
a. Co. on the W. s. Waldron at 30 Coz
bert & Cos on the Brandon at 225;
Smick Oh the Ma burger at 30.
Stewart & Co.'S well on the McKinny,
east a Petersyille is in and good, also
Smith & Co. on same farm.
Johnston & Co aud Walter & Co. on the
Peter RAIDER are each rated at 30 barrels.
The McKinny farm well is supposed to
open up line to Rcibold from the Bran
don.
Ls.dec1er & Go. are laying pipe line
from the Flinner to the eastern develop
ments. The average ran at Bolton station
is 5000 bariels day.
Phillips well on the Sweeny, at Great
Belt. struck heavy flow Of gas Mondey
and was shut down.
A rig Is up on the Wagner farm.
r. W. Phillips on the ID. Pearce, west of
Bntler is in the sand and showing good.
Mirerstown Hunter g. Cummings on
tie Pon.iods is rated at so barrels
A we'll has been started on the G. Ii.
Book farm near Annanda'e.
snce & Co. have a..5ig easser on the Jno.
Murrin at Mui 'nville.
AROUSED TO ACTION.
1t begins to look as though he oil pro-
duccrs meant business aud would establish
a pipe line and refinery owned and operated
by themselves. Why they should do so Is
apparent to al-all the pipe lines and ie-
tineiies at present in operation are owned
by one conce a, which regulates the price
OF crude oil to srit itself
Mr.. r. j. vanderRlift IA quoted on the
subject as follows
Producers Of oil are justly alarmed at
their evident dependence upon the one
buyer Of their crude product, he apparent
power and seemlng purpose Of the
monopoly to aequhe absolute control Of
production aud 40 regulate prices aa to
aqneesc The lia blood out OF the producing
bae'neaa. No doubt bome Of ,he more
mvorubly located producers viii take eieps
Mt an eesly day to secure Legitimate value
for their oil by piping and eda'ag the
same,
zone of the fiat questions asked about
new enterprise usually lHl Where u the
maketf Can sou answeF that question:
'rfhe market for refined products will be
found amone our G0,0oo, 900 people Ut home
and the exporters | thluk individual
effort on tbs part Of the present outside
pradueefa-au side ID used adviatdly, for
there are ''luside" predueers-ia better
than surrender OF the management of that
business to an autagoniatie interest with
power TO depress values and eventually
gnbhle ter itoFy and production at its own
price, Pooling arrangements can be made
bstween these individual enterprises IT,
facilitate their business and enable small
outside redneriea TO make and fill contracts
too large for their individual capacity,
"Will the Standard try 10 POI suade pro
ducers ont of this ideaf
eyes, the monopoly viii proclaim these
efforts as an interference with what they
term 'our business In former days the
argument Of the monopoly TO dissuade nro-
duccls from engaging in the business Of
refining oil was that it never produced a
barrel of oil or eucroached on .be pro
duccr's legitimate Business. Now that
argument has gone glimmcIing like many
o.her of its sanity protesta.ons.
How Is the present outside refrer
affectedl
"The outside refiner's interests are
identical with those Of the outside pro-
ducer. lie must maintain the outside pro-
ducer, go into the business Iof producing
himself, or be at the mercy Of the
monopoly for bis supply Of crude. IL is
not hard to see where that would land him.
Another thing, while the monopoly is the
only buyer and reiner of crude, the price
for refined can have no eject on the price
Of crude, except at the pleasure of this
single buyer
The STANDARD pipes the oil to New York
and Cleveland and lcfincs it at those
points, usuing coal for fuel-and it has be-
come one OF the wealtbiest corpoi ations in
the world. The proper place to refine the
oil is in the oil and gas producirg g country,
Using gas for fuel Refined oil is trans
ported in barrels and by rail, and as far a.
We can see Butler would be just as advan-
tagcous location for an oil refinery as
there is in the oil and gas producing terri
tory.
| Thcmeeting Of the Butler oil producers
at the Hotel vogelcy, Saturday evening,
was addressed by W. A. Clark, G. G.
Christie, G. Walker and others who advo-
Gated building refinery on the Ohio river,
near PittsbuIg, and committee Of five,
consisting of W. A. Clark, Chas. Hazlett,
G. d. Greenlcc, Thos. Alexander and Fred
Lcidecker, was appointed to fix time aud
make arrangements for general meeting
OF the oil producers of the county.
Alleged Brutality.
The Pittsburg Times of Thursday con
tanned the following: DR.. Henry NJ. Werh
erill, Of Philadelphia, Secretary of the
State Committee on Lunacy, was at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel last night Ht
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