Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-05
In NEW TERRITORY.
Considerable Interest Now Taken in
the Wells at Mcdonald.
ONE OF THEM Is SHOWING Oil.
Leases Still Being Eagerly Sought for in
the Toronto Field.
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TIE WILDCATS IN BUTLER COUNTY

MCDONALD STATION, Dec. 4.-Ihe well
located near Mcdonald station, Panhandle
road, on the Mcdonald farm, is attracting
some attention. The we'll is on top the sand
and is paying anywhere from to 20 barrels
a day. The owners intended to drill it in
to-day, but up to late hour tonight no in
formation was learned shedding new light
upon the venture. There are two other wells
on top the sand in this locality which will
soon be drilled in, when more will be known
about this section of the oil domain. A
large amount of territory has been leased up
at good round bonuses. Four years ago this
country was all leased up for gas and was
no good for oil purposes.
No New Features at Wildwood.
No new features have been developed
to-day at Wildwood The gushers on
the southwest line are gradually de-
clining, but are occasionally stirred up.
which increases production only tempor-
arilv. A total gauge of the Roth OIL Com
panv's wells on the Harbush farm to-day
was IS inches an hour, or about 112 barrels.
The Governor Pattison Rolsehouse has
dropped to 90 barrels an hour, when only
few DAYS ago the well was making double
this amount. No. 2 Rolsehouse has also
declined from 50 barrels an hour to % bar
rels. Barnsdall & Co. IS No. kress, too, is
falling of, and tonight is making 81 bar
rels an hour.
Greenlee s. Forest No Rolsehouse,i is do
ing 5S barrels according to personal gauge
late this afternoon, while Griffith and the
Forest Oil Co. s Nos l and . was agitated
to-day, which increased No. l to nine inches
an hour and No. 2 to 13 inches an hour.
The Smith Farm Oil Company's No. 8,
which was shot yesterday, is producing IS
barrels dav. They are still fishing for the
tools in No. and Will bring in No. about
the middle OF next week. They located No.
Srig to-day.
Something of a Gusher.
MANNIN GToN-The latest acquisition to
the Warrington field is the Mcleod well, on
the Sutton farm, near Fairview. The we'll
came in Saturday, and made over ITO inches
In the first Is hours. The new venture has
been set down as a good producer, and has
somewhat revived interest in this section of
the field. The South Penn Oil Company,
Standard, have two wells shut down on top
of the sand on the Susan Yost farm,
and one on the Jones farm. Graham
& Co. are also drilling on top of the sand
on the Brown farm, and Mcleod & Co. on
the Morgan are also on the sand, but will
not be drilled in until next week. The
Fleming Oil Company. on the Tannant
farm, have settled their I'M JUNCTION suit, and
have started to drilling again. Fisher &
Co. are drilling two wells on the Yost and
one on the Toothman farms. The S. o.
Penn are drilling three wells on the James
Yost, one on the Susan Yost, one on the
Amos and another on the Conway farm.
Not as Big as Expected.
r.MARY's-A reliable and we'll informed
c. 4
saws the Mandeville we'll on the Davis farm,
after all the talk, will not make more than a
four or ive-barrel well. The Bills well at
ST. Mary's, located tnree-quarters of mile
northeast from the Duncan & Co. well, is
due tomorrow. This well is claiming some
attention and the future of operations of this
locality in a great measure depends upon
the result of this we'll. The ardor and en-
thusiasm prevailing here among producers
when the Duncan well came in has cooled
down and if the investors In high priced
territory could now get out even they would
be only too glad to do so.
Butler County Wildcats.
The dry hole just completed on the John
Mexican farm, two and hall miles south
west from the Murrinsville field, looks
bad for an outlet to the pool in this direction.
In the old field there is nothing doing and it
is estimated that the much doomed Muir
rinsvllle of only a few DAYS ago is not now
producing over 800 barrels a day. There is
a wildcat well drilling on the Sharon Coal
Compauy's land, owned by Stage and Leid-
ecker, and located one mile from the Muir
rinsville developments. Yesterday Knox,
of Emlenton. and Capt. Peter Grace COM
pleted well on the Anderson farm
between Martinsburg and Annis, which
is said Eto be showing tor a we'll. This is
an experiment well, and the old pioneer
operators are looking for another pool
between these once famous fields. Captain
William Leckey, of Oil City, too, has Just
completed wildcat well on the Hoover
farm in the gladas, one mile west of North
Washington. 1t is reported as a third
sander, and looks like well. John NJ
Arteis & Co. are starting an experimental
well on the Henry Daubenspeck farm, near
AnnisvilIe lakewood & Co.: few days
since completed a good gas well on the
Duglass farm in Nenango county, just over
the Butler line. The well was sold to Eben
Crawford, who is piping the caloric fluid to
Emlenton. The same company are building
a rig on the Anderson farm, and J. W.
Riddle, hall mile to the northwest on his
own land, is getting ready to bounce the
drill.
The Lima Field.
A Mr.. Phillip, who has been shooting
wells in the Lima district for some time, ar
rived in the city yesterday. Mr.. Phillip,
who is well informed upon oil matters in
general, and especially IN the Lima field,
does not give glowing account of the siTua-
ton there. He SAYS, from present indica-
tons, the Lima field will soon be a thing OF
the past, and this once prolific pool will NO
longer be factor in keeping up the stock.
Ohio crude and salt water, saws Mr.. Phillip,
is playing sad havoc with the wells which
are being flooded out almost by the whole
sale. There are more wells being pulled out
and abandoned then there are new ones COM
pleted.
The shooter also said there was no further
use for torpedo men in Lima, and that he
had come out this way to try his hand In the
Pennsylvania field. Within the past three
or four days Mr.. Dennison, general agent
for the High Explosive Company, said that
four or five Lima shooters had made appIi.
cations for position.
One Producers Opinion.
Mr.. G. W, Scofeld, prominent producer
in the upper field, has ventilated his idea.
through the columns OF the jamestown Sun
how to squelch the Standard, raise the
price of oil and put the producer on the
road to prosperity. Mr.. Scofeld's plan is tc
organize storage companies throughout tn,
oil regions and erect storage tanks and re.
ceive petroleum. While the plan look.
feasible upon its face its ultimate success j,
questioned by manv producers whose fore
sight and business qualifications cannot b,
questioned. The subject of storing oil is no
new one.
The producers at various times within
+be mast two wears have discussed the nro