Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-10-10
Oil Field Notes.

The sensation of the week is the gusher
on the Kornrumpf farm short distance
northeast of Jefferson Centre. Ii is owned
by the Jefferson Oil Co, which at present
is composed of Messrs Gibson and Gahe-
gan, of Butler. Messrs. Patterson and
Deeds, of Pittsburg, and Andy Frazier and
Charley Parker James Gallagher and
Tom Frazier also had interests that were
sold at Sheriff. sale during the past year.
The farm is owned by Mrs. Laura KOrn-
rumpf and her children, who are grown up,
and one of whom is married to Jacob Kun
mer, of Butler. 1t adjoins the Byerly
heirs farm on which a dry hole was drilled
this Spring, and dry hole was drilled on
the same farm last Fall. The sand was
tapped Monday afternoon and the well be-
gan gushing al a tremendous rate. Next
day after pipeline connections were made,
they were saving about 125 barrels an
hour, and part of the oil was running TO
waste, showing that the well was doing
over 5000 a day This well, with the
Phillips well on the Baumgartner or old
Reich farm, seems to designate a belt OF
good territory between Jefferson Centre
and Herman.
Titley & Co.'S on the Wiles is rated at
80 barrels.
Sheffield & Co.'S . on the Kamerer is
showing good.
Phillips well on the Baumgartner start
ed off at so barrels.
The Butchers well near Bakerstown was
drilled deeper last week and increased to
80 an hour. They are drilling their well
on the Richards deeper.
The well on the Lefevre farm is rated at
so day.
Operators are looking for leases between
Wildwood and Bakerstown.
scheidemantle's on the the J. s. Dam
bach is rated at 60 bbls.; McLane No. IL
on the McLane st bbls.
The Harmony Oil Co. well on the Allen
is rated at 40 bbls. an hour; the Continental
Co.'S on the Reep at 20 an hour, and
Strohecker d Co. on the Wilson at 100 a
day.
The Brown & Gibson on the Allen has
ali immense flow of saltwater.
The Fisher g. Co. well on the Steinml-
Ter lot was doing 20 barrels an hour Tues
day, and Zeinkham q Bryan, and the Mckee
Co are erowding their line with two rigs.
Irwin a, Cos well on the Irwin made two
two flows Tuesday, and Guckert d Co. on
Beringer is in the sand with hole full of
water.
The Cunningham well oI the West,
which has been pumping salt water for two
weeks. is now pumping some OIL.
The well on the Friskorn, between Evans
City and Zelienople, is reported good.
The National Transit Co. is building a
new station near Evans City.
Reep & Co.'S two wells on the Martha
Dunbar are now doing so bbls of oil day.
The wild cat well drilled by Titusville
parties on Wolf creek, west of Harrisville,
is reported to be duster. They got some
gas at 900 feet, and at 100 found ID feet
of inferior sand.
Evans, Hays 6 Co. drilled their No. on
the NJ. S. Storey, near Fairview, to the 4th
sand and it is reported at 20 bbls. Nc
Cafferty & MorrisOn's well on the James
Hindman is rated at 5 barrels. Corlin &
Co s 3 on the SwartZlander at 5, and Hays
& Co. on the Ellenberger at S.
Messrs Redick. Patterson aud Golden, of
Butler, who some months since drilled two
or three test wells over the west hill, for oil
or gas, are now drilling for the same pur
pose on the Kennedy farm, over in How
land township, near Warren. \ few days
ago, at the depth of 80 feet a good show
Of gas and oil was found, in less than an
hour five gallons Of heavy oil being taken
from it, and the owners are confident of a
five barrel well. Mecca oil sells at 80
cents a gallon, making five barrel well
very nice thing for hole in the ground.
The Warren Tribune says machinery has
been ordered with the intention of putting
down 80 more wells on the same FARM
Sharon Herald.
reunion of the Pitholers, the men who
huilded and dwelt in the city of Pithole
during the days of the great oil excitement
is to be held in the near future.
A bill in equity was filed last Thursday
by Thomas Lggett and James g. Hay
maker against Albert L. Klaus, restraining
him from selling or assigning a lease in the
Saxonburg oil district The plaintiffs state
that they procured from Kiskadden & Clee-
land a one-half interest III lease of this
territory and afterwards Klaus secured the
other half but did not record it. Sub
sequently he induced Kiskadden & Co. to
assign the whole of the lease to him, not
withstanding the plaintiffs interest.
THE NEW PIPELINE PROJECT.
At the meeting of the producers in But
Ter last Thursday night the committee re-
ported that $3.50, 900 would build refinery
of 500 barrels capacity, and a 3-inch %
mile pipeline with ten miles of con-
nections, and subscription books were
opened. The producers of Washington Co.
also propose building a pipe line and re-
finery; and the producers of the Millers-
town field intend building a pipeline to
the Allegheny river. Those producers who
have or will subscribe for stock will have a
secret meeting this evening.