Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-15
WILDWOOD WEAKENING.
THAT is THE ONLY NEWS OF INTEREST
FROM THAT FIELD

Progress of the Wells in That LocaIity-The
Gauge of the McCurdy Pool-The Much
Discussed Hassinger Well at Glenshaw
Investigated.
ESPECIAL rKLEeRAh TO THE p1spArcH.,
WILDWOOD, April 14-The only new
feature in the Wildwood field to-day is the
weakening appearance OF the northeast end
OF the pool This is shown by the light
caliber of the Whitesell No. - and Is, which
recently came in. Nos. II tonight is doing
100 barrels day, and No. Is is still drill.
ing in the sand and is making five barrels
an hour. This conclusion is further SUBJ
stantiated by the Sunline Oil Company on
the Whitesen, l,S09 feet northeast from the
foregoing two wells. which is through the
third sand and dry. The Smith Oil
Company's No. is through the sand and is
only doing eight barrels hour Its No. is
doing g. barrels day. and its No. 10 is drilling
At 800 feet, while No. II has also started drill
Grifiths & Co.'s Whitesen No. Il has rig
mp, and No. 10 has rig building. Queene and
the Forest Oil Company's No l krefzer is do
inc S12 barrels an hour while the same parties
have rig up for their No. 2 and being built
for their Nos. and 4. Evans. MandevIlle d
Co. Marks No. Pas being drilled at 800 feet
and Nos. and have rigs ready for the drill
Colbar No. l, with good luck, will reach the
sand tomorrow night. This is important
well, being northwest of the kretzer Nc. /
about 500 feet The Heidelberg will find the
sand Tomorrow, which is also an important
well on a 90 line One-fourth of a mile SOUTH
west from Ghe Mack and kretzer wells, and
about the same distance west of the AIston
we'll
The Roth Oil Company's Peoples No.
expect to find the sand tonight 800 feet nearly
north of the AlstOm. The same company's
Campbell No. found water in the l0O-foot, and
is now roaming down In the Alston No. it
met with the same obstacle, and is going
through the same process No. ASTON is
making nine inches ah hour. Dibert < Co.,
the Jenny farm, are drilling in the bottom of
the l0O-foot. This is the farthest well SOUTH
west ON 45o line, and Will probably get in the
latter part of next week. The Smith Oil Com
pany on the Mc1ntire farm, Is fishing for bit,
and hreSs No. is drilling the bottom of
the sand and doing four inches an hour. No.
u kress, which was drilled in yesterday and
staS ed off at 30 inches an hour, had declined
this morning to q inches an hour Since No.
u made its advent No. l3 kress has shut down
of is own VoIition. and will be tub-d soon. No,
/ Zcigenhein has also stopped flowing, and
Gibson & Giles are putting fve-inch casing In
their No. Scott.
John NJ. Patterson is to-day putting the Sec
ond string of casing in his Espey well on the
Perrysvllle plank road. The Smith Oil Com
pany is spudding on its Ashley well, north
east of wildwood station. Griffith d Forest
OIL Company's NJ Rlngeisen well is !, 200 feet
deep. Finnegan & Downing's No. Wallace
well is doing 80 barrels day.
The Hassinger Wen Investigated.
GLENsHAw-THE DISPATCH scout to-day
succeeded in getting into the derrick at the
Hassinger well, which has been mentioned in
these columns before, and about which there
have been many conflicting reports He
found the well gassing from the 30-foot sa nd
spraying some oil. The oil is of an amber color
and was found five feet in the third sand
tank was completed Saturday forenoon, and to-
day at noon 1t had 81 inches of oil therein
equal to about IA barrels. They have a new
line on the shaft, and are experiencing some
trouble in getting it to work. as there are LOCO
feet Of oil in the hole, and the line stretches SO
fast that they cannot lift the tools from the
bottom of the well. They were drilling In this
shape to-day. The sand is good. but of a dark
gray color, and would be considered q fair pro.
ducIng sand.
The Production of McCurdy Wells,
MCCURDY-The McCurdy field has remained
Quiet for the past IS hours. The Adams well
is due to-day, but up to this morning no Iidings
Of Its advent had been learned. From an au-
IhOritative source the daily production of the
field is SC47 barrels. The following are the
gauges of the wells: