Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-28
PRODUCTION GOING UP.
THERE Is A BIG INCREASE IN THE
M'DONALD OIL OUTPUT.

Two More Gushers of the First Magnitude
Gauges of the Big weIls-Reports From
Moon and Mt Morris.
The estimated daily production of the
| Mcdonald, Noblestown and Oakdale oil
fields Saturday was 80, 600 barrels. This is
an increase of over s, 900 barrels in less than
two days. Last Thursday Daniel O'Day and
Joseph Seep, of the National Transit Com.
pany, visited the field in company with
Glenn T. Braden the General Superintend.
ent the National Transit Company, and after
a careful personal survey of the territory
came to the conclusion that more tankage
would be needed before the production
| reached the limit. They accordingly de-
| cided upon the erection of million barrels
of tankage which will be put up as soon as
possible. The estimate of Saturday
is based upon carefully prepared figures and
there were two oil wells completed thnt
day, each of which added at least g. 600 bar
rcls to the production. These were the
Guffey, Jennings, Murphy y Cos No. on
the Bell, which was doing l5O barrels an
hour, and Forst & Greenlee's No j
On the Mevey farm which was
The former is back of Noblestown near the
Matthews well, and the latter adjoins the
Miller farm. just northeast of Mcdonald.
The following isan hourly guage of the big
Elliott, 90 Bell No. l, $50: Gamble, 50:
Mevey No. 1,leO; Miller No. /, 115: Miller No.
:. 30: Mary Robb, 80; Sauters & Co. 4O Cook
lot, %: Patterson, 25 Peoples Natural Gas
Company, 90: Sautters No. 3, 25 Heron No.
]. % barrels an hour from the Gordon. The
Miller Mol of Garland & HAYS was increased
to l7o barrels an hour by deeper drilling.
Greenlce & Forst's No ) Mevey is down 800
feet: No. 3, 1900 feet; Nos. g. and g. 200 feet
wide, and they have rig building for No. T.
Back of Noblestown Guffy, Jennings Co. s
No. Heron is shut down for casing. 1t is
500 feet west of the Mathews well. Their Bell
No. will be completed this week. Greenlee
& Forst's No. l. on the Gamble farm. back
of Oakdale, is down 1000 feet. Their No. 2
is 500 feet deep: No: $50 feet, and they have
a rig building for No 4. They are building
II rig on the Bailey farm northwest of the
Gamble. The same parties are down 400 feet
on the GLADDEN. farm halfa mile southwest
OF Mcdonald Station. Up in McCurdy, Huss-
Ter, Davis & Bott are down l2OO feet in their
Rrice No. and are ready to drill at No q
The No. l. Moore of Kennedy & Bott was
completed IN 25 days, the fastest timein the
field. The drillers were W. NJ. and Andrew
Bott.
In Another Direction.
THORN RUN-Richey & Belts No. l, on the
JEFF Ousbott farm, is through the third and
fourth sands, and will make s, fair gasser.
The Lawrenceville Gas Company is spudding
on the Daily farm. The Forest Oil
Company, which plugged its No, g. on the
Meeks farm, at LOCO feet, has moved the rig
and is spudding for a new hole. The same
company has abandoned its Hill No /, Kerr
No. and Meel1s No. .. Its Gordon No. 2 has
been shot and will be tubed today Colonel
Gilmore recently finished I25- barrel we'll
and a. j. Ferguson got one that is good for
100 a day. The Harvey Oil Company's No. 3
and w. L. MELONS No. are both dry.
West Virginia Ventures.
Mt MoaRIs-The National Oil Company's
No. on the Henderson farm IS in the sand
and showing for 10 barrels day. The South
Penn Oil Company's No. 81. d. Eddy,and its
No. p. Eddy, will get the pay the middle of
the week. They are putting the last casing
III their No. on the Walker. The Dunkard
Oil and Gas Company's No. l McClurg was
the last casing in and will be finished this
week.