Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-29
A GENUINE SURPRISE,
The Neglected BakerstOwn Field
Comes to the Front With
a Big Well.
ANOTHER GUSHER AT WILDWOOD.
The Roth Oil Company Again in Luck,
Striking Producer of the
First Magnitude.
DRILLING TO BE DONE BY ELECTRICITY.
Wesley Weber Secures Patent on Device to Facilitate
Operations
ANOTHER GUSHER AT WILDWOOD.
DRILLING TO BE DONE BY ELECTRICITY.
Wesley Weber Secures Patent on Device to Facilitate
Operations.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

BAKERsTowN, September 2S.-Bakers-
town is not dead, but has only been sleep
ing. Among the surprises of the southwest
which have greeted the trade during the
past month, the Butchers well at Bakers
town, on the Ross Clendenning farm, is ur-
Questionably the most conspicuous. The
importance of the new wonder does not lie
wholly in the magnitude of its production,
but its significance is more fully compre
hended in the possibilities of large scope
of territory it has apparently opened up.
For a long time but little attention has been
paid to the Bakerstown field, and by nearly
all practical operators and the trade in gen.
eral this old pool has been relegated to the
category of things irrevocably past and gone.
For this reason the surprise is so much
the greater, and will afford the philosoph-
jcRl producer much interest in contemplate
ing the probable future of the field. For
Some time they have been fishing for piece of
steel lost in the boulder from which horizon
the well has been spraying some oil. The OBJ
stacle. fortunately, was removed Thursday
night and on Friday morning drilling was re-
sumed, and at seven feet in the drill tapped the
nrst pay. when the well commenced flowing
like an old Thorn creek gusher. On the start
of, by an actual gauge, the well did an inch
minute, or at the rate of $50 barrels an hour.
The owners were not prepared for well of
This caliber. and had only limited amount of
fankage on hand, and consequently lost large
portion of the production. Notwithstanding
this fact the pipe line reports show that the
we'll made the first "a hours $500 barrels, and
late Saturday night was holding up at 70 bar
rels an hour; the well is now connected to a
! 200 barrel tank belonging to the Pipe line. The
well is located on a direct line between the old
Gould pool and the Wildwood field being three
miles southwest from the former and about
four and half miles northeast from the latter.
1t is also 500 or 800 feet southeast from the
Richards well which when struck started off at
the rate of SO barrels day. and half mile north
west from Joe Willison's well on the Patton
farm which is doing eight or ten barrels day.
Willison Co., on the Bell farm, are drilling
at 1000 feet and are on top the l00-foot with
their Mahan No. !. The CHARTERS Oil Com
pany. on the Jack farm. are rigging up at No. 2
and the Fisher Oil Company, on the John Jack.
have 4 rig nearly completed. Ireland and
Hughes. on the Martin Monks farm are put
ting lumber on the ground for rig. while Joe
Wiison & Co. are building two upon the
William Jack farm. ID. H. Teredrick is ex-
pediting matters on the Garrow, and will soon
have a rig ready to bounce the drill. Joe
Willison has sold his half interest in the Martin
Monks farm to P. B. Crosby, of Butler; eonsid-
Grafton private.