Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-12
IT'S HAYsYILLR NOW.

The Pentecost Well IL Pronounced Good
One, Without DOubt-Crnflou Greatly
Rxcited--LasheIps Oil Line From Brad.
ford to Texas.
While some petroleum wildcatters are
waiting until the mud rolls by Or fills rs
up the Excitement along the 46-degree line
is unabated, and the base scalper il exercis-
ing his oratorical and logical powers on the
granger for five miles on either side Of the
supposed belt.
Yesterday Haysville was at fever heat
over the showing made by the well on the
property of Major A. J. Pentecost. As is
usually the case, there was q vast difference
of opinion as to what the well will eventu-
ally do. It is admitted by all that tits
a good one, and those who are learned in
petroleum matters say she has all the evil
dences of being Of the staying kind. j. s.
Mcdonald stated that she would be good
somewhere between 20 and 100 barrels, and
quite q number were of the opinion that
about 80 barrels would be the regular out
put. She made four flows day before yes
terday and night before last, and will steady
down in all probability in her gait to-day.
The we'll is dangerously near for Sewickley's
no suueamishness over the smell. The well
is in the third or 30-foot sand, which there
is but little over 1,700 feet deep, SO that
smaller wells will pay than in Washington
county.
It has been stated that the difficulty aris-
ing from salt water in the second sand had
been surmounted, but it seems that it has
been overcome but indiferently. The
Diepp well, southeast Of Haysville, on the
other side OF the river, is the only one Of
note in that section that has been success
in the 100-foot. She is still doing well,
though several months old, and has put q
great many thousands of barrels Of oil.
Some think that an error in the drilling re-
cord Of the two Dorrington-E wells on
the Knopf farm is responsible for the letting
in of the salt water. Halls Run, below
Forest Grove Church, was ablaze with light
last night from the oil rigs scattered along
it.
The old Arbuckle we'll is still flowing 10
barrels day, though some people reported
her dry the other day. No effort has been
made to increase her output 30 far, but she
will be drilled in this week, and her owners
hope she will revive They have never
pumped her YET, though there was some talk
of doing so over a month ago. Arbuckle
No. will be finished this week. She is
expected to be good. No. 2, which failed to
show up worth speaking Of, will be shot this
week. II. s. Stewart the contractor, who
also has an interest in the production Of the
Arbuckle farm, has been confined to bed for
some time threatened with typhoid fever,
but he is expected to be on his pins in day
or two.
The mud in the vicinity of Remington
was churned to sIop yesterday on account Of
the excitementpver the strike on the Wet
tengail farm. The well is not far from the
Shades of Death, and is southwest of the
ArbucKle farm.
Mr.. George Lashell has been following
development starting from Bradford, and
has traced it, as he confidently asserts, to
some point in Texas. He doesn't pretend to
say Just how broad the belt is, and he speaks
as one thoroughly satisfied with his belief,
and runs the line through Kentucky, east
of Nashville, Tenn, thence to Vicksburg,
and on into Texas.
Mr.. Lashell doesn't speak as geologist
nor make any special claim to scientific
knowledge, but he says what he breaches is
an accomplished fact, and what makes it
specially interesting to him is that he finds
his farm on the belt.