Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-05
IT'S A REAL WHALE.
Inc Largest Gusher in this County
Spouting in the Hundred-Foot.
FOkEST GROVE PRESBTTERIANS
Floating in Oil Like Sardines, and They
Keep Their Temper Well.
FOREST GROVE PRESBYTERIANS
FORTY DOLLARS AN HOUR GOING TO POT,

The largest oil gusher yet struck in this
county came in during Thursday night
within a few rods Of the parsonage of the
Forest Grove Presbyterian Church, in Rob-
inson township, mile and half south of
Groveton, on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
Railway. There is no doubt of what it was
doing yesterday, and though it may slow
down in day or two, some people think it
will be even greater when the tools are taken
out of the hole.
The well is on the Andrew Young farm,
above Montour run, and extends the terri
tory to the south from the Depp farm gush-
erS. 1t is owned by the Vandergrifts, and
is the greater surprise from the impression
that the territory was good only for gas
As soon as the oil began to gush tank
builders were telegraphed for, and a force
went to work with a will. but an immense
amount of wealth will float down the Ohio
before the oil-saver gets TO work, as the
boiler is not yet moved, and the tanks will
be built before the oil can be diverted into
them. Meantime the golden fluid is stream
ing Gown the hill at the rate of more than
80 barrels an hour, making the hearts OF
even nou-owners sick.
COVERED WITH OIL.
Montour run is covered with iridescence.
and its big bends suggest horizontal rain
bows, and oh, how it smells 1t is so loud
that it fills the nostrils of people as far down
as Coraopolis. When the astonished vii
layers awoke yesterday morning they
thought the pipe line up the run had burst.
The Young well is in the 100-foot sand,
and is only a little over !, 200 feet deep. This
sand is quite uniform in that section, and
contains much oil, but must be handled
very carefully, or the salt water ruins the
wells. Mr.. McNall tells of several good oil
wells that were destroyed by allowing the
drill to penetrate foot or two too far. The
first well on the Knopf farm, mile further
south, was thus destroyed. 1t was flowing
20 barrels day without help. but a little
more punching let in the salt water and the
oil disappeared. The same tate met the |
Moore well, but she had gas enough TO paw.
Mr.. W. H. Ewing, whose experience as
an oil operator extends over more than 25 |
years, observed the working of the Young
well lor some hours yesterday, and stated |
that she was undoubtedly making at the rate |
Of about 1000 barrels day.
THE IRONY OF FATE.
The irony of fate is strongly accented in
this district Rev. DR.. Beacon some months |
ago handled oil drillers without gloves, and
seemed to think, if correctly reported, that
their morals were poisonous 10 the commu-
nifty. Now while his neighbors are down on
their marrow-bones, praying for an oil
strike on their farms, the strikes
persist in getting closer to DR..
Beacon. However, there ought to be some
consolation in the hope that a strike on the
parsonage ground will float the church for
years, and the members stipend can ali be
diverted to the cause of missions.
Were it not that the approach to the
Young farm is almost unfordable the hill
would have been covered with sightseers,
but one must either wade in Robinson town.
ship mud knee-deep, or climb up the bed of
a stream that has cut many feet below the
pleistocene to get to Forest Grove, and only
agements.
CoRAoPoLIS CRAZY.
Coraopolis, which some people proposed to |
varnish and fence up last season, has sud-
denly developed into one of the liyeliest
towns in the county, and though there are no
licensed saloons in the village, no one need |
go long short of a supply or Snake-bite cure.
Building lots are being leased for drilling |
purposes. A. d. Grey leased one and got |
SIS bonus, and the owner of the lot adjoining |
Edward Smiths house got 500 bonus,
though it is but a 2O-foot |
lot. The Jolly Brothers have |
Slb,OUU worth OF commence In the territory, /
and have Joined forces with the Augusta Oil |
Company. There are five rigs up within gum
shot OF the well, on George Ferree's farm,
one of them being in Squire Ferree's or
chard. Some enterprising man might make |
fortune by establishing hotel in the vii
lage.
The Westview field will likely come to
the front with more gushers in few DAYS
Galley Brothers No. l, Rea farm, is down
LOO feet. The result is important The
Hahn is down /, 500 feet, Keating and Hoff.
man wells 1000 feet, and Ivory No. and |
Baxter Oil Company's No. 1, 500 feet. Hoff-
man, Rodgers & Co.'S No. /, Kaufman
farm. Gallery junction, and the E. H. |
Adams & Co.'s wells, in the 100 loot, are
dry. Patterson & Tate's well, Brandon farm.
58 feet in sand, is full OF oil. Steel & Co.'s
No. 2. Sherman farm, is 20-barreler, and |
McCiung & Co.'S Graham farm shows
we'll. The Fisher Oil Company's No. 2, on
the Ferguson farm, Shannopin, is filled
1000 feet and will be small. The Turkeyfoot
field new daily production for March is 513
barrels, an increase OF 180 barrels over Feb