Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-29
WELLS AND DRILLERS
The Dispatch Scouts Notes Of Work
Finished and Unfinished
IN VARIOUS PARTS OF OlLDOM.
The Vicinity Of Zelienople Now Attracting
Much Attention.
T. ". PHILLIPS MANY NEW VENTURES
nprorAL rrIrenAn TO THE p1srArcH.I

| ESPECIAL TELEG1AM TO THE DIsPArCH.I
BUTLER, August Zelienople just
now is attracting considerable attention.
Should two or three more wells like the
Latshaw venture come in, confidence in the
territory would be fully established, and
another hundred-foot excitement would not
at all be improbable. The old well is pro-
ducing good 60 barrels a day. and shows
no signs of declining. Six or eight wells
are under way. and by this time next week the
number will most likely be duplicated Lat
shaw & Co. have No. 8 rig ready for the drill,
and are down 400 feet with No. on the Allen
farm, and on the island Cunningham d Co. are
down 400 feet with No. L
The Shaner well, three miles from Prospect
| is doing IL barrels day. This small strike has
stimulated some new work, and, like Zelienople,
if others follow, this section Of old Butler
would become busy place, at least for time.
Mcfarland & Co. are building No. rig on the
Shaner, and the Plate Glass Company, on the
Adam Webber farm, have rig almost ready
for the drill and are building four more within
radius of q mile from this point. The Forest
Oil Company are doing considerable work.
Their No. 2 on the George Marburger farm. Is
No. lS same farm. 300 feet; No. 2, Stewart, 500
feet. and No. s has a rig building, and on the
Goehring No. is drilling.
AN ACTIVE OPERATOR.
T. ". Phillips is also doing quite stroke of
work and is getting a nice production. At
Great Belt he is drilling No. 2 on the Baum
gartner farm at 900 feet; No. on the John
Byesly 200 feet; No. l. James Swaney 1,350
feet AT Coylesv1lle. on the Patrick Logue
farm, No. s is down 900 feet, while at Denny's
Mills on the Helm farm, he is drilling = Wild
cat well, which is down 300 feet A mile and a
half below Butler, on the McCalmont farm, No.
15 has reached depth of ], 400 feet, and No. 8.
on the Price farm, is in the neighborhood OF
1000 feet. In the Saxonburg pool there is some
interests felt in the probable extension of the
belt toward Thorncreek. The big wells that
have recently come in here are holding up
fairly and there is quite lot Of work under
way.
The developments in the Murrinsville pool
during the past week have been of an encourag
ing nature. Several good wells have been
struck, and the men who have invested heavily
in leases there see better times ahead. Lei
decker. Alexander & Co.'s WELL on the Squire
John Murrln farm, is the center OF interest just
now as the tools are just about entering the
north of developments, and on a line with other
good wells.
THE sAxoNBURG FIELD.
Ligget q Haymaker have completed their
well on the George Welsh farm in the Saxon
burg field. 1t is good for so barrels per day.
They torpedoed their No. II on the Crawford
to-day, and it made 50-barrel flow. Guckert
q CO; got dry hole to-day on
bridge. The well was entirely devoid
of sand. Boyd Bros & McCalla have a well on
top of the sand on the W. NJ. Humes farm in
Adams township. Stag & Co. have leased their
old well on the Nancy Adams farm, two miles
north of producing territory in Adams town.
ship to George McFadden, who is rigging it up
to pump. This well was completed year ago
and made ten barrels per day for several
months. 1t is believed that it can be made to
do even better than that now. Captain q. w.
Batchellor, of PIttsburg. is drilling we'll on
the John Harvey farm, In Clinton township.
This well has attained a depth of ], 400 feet
The Tarentum Company is drilling well at >
depth of 200 feet on the John B. Cunningham
farm. in the same township. and if they fail to
get gas the well will be drilled deeper with the
hope OF striking oil in the lower Strata.