Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-28
LIGHT FIELD REPORTS.
ONLY ONE OF THE MANY WELLS NOW
DUE Is DRILLED IN.

DUE is DRILLED IN.
The Allston No. 2 at Wildwood Starts or at
Forty Barrels-Still Wells Revived with
Large Doses of Nitro -Glycerine-The Nc.
Curdy and Moon Fields.
The field developments yesterday were
lighter and of less consequence than they
have been at any time during the month.
There are wells in all of the Allegheny pools
so close to the pay that some of-them were
expected to come in yesterday. The only
large one was Forst & Greenlee's Aston
No. q at wildwood, which started
of at 40 barrels an hour and last
evening had settled down to 80 an hour.
Before the week closes the final results from
nearly dozen wells in the county now
drilling near the sand should be known.
Coraopolis Wells.
CoaAoPoLIs-Black Emerson's No. 4, on
the Ritter, is down 150 feet. The rig for Mel
Ions Chess farm well No. 6 is about COM
pleted-and viii be drilling next week. His
Cassiday No. is due to reach the pay
to-day, and his Kerr No. 8 should be in this
son, is down ,450 feet and should get the
sand Friday morning. 1t is 700 feet east OF
the Coraopolis Oil Company's No. ], on the
through 155 feet of Hundred Foot sand, in
in9 Ssn of 'neES 81; Galley a Bros havs sn0S %
about half a mile due south Of toraopolis.
1t is also an eastern edge well. The Forest
Oil Company has had to pull the casing and
feam 5S down in its HogbaT well on account o,f Of
Company's well, on the John Watson, is
good for 40 barrels. The daily runs from the
Coraopolis and Moon fields are about ], 200
Transfers about Coraopolis are indignant
over the passage of an ordinance by the
Council to tax single teams IS year, double
teams $l2 year and 30 cents for each load
which nonresident teamsters take out of the
village. They have fixed the fine for the
non-payment of the 80 cents at $6 The team
sters who haul oil well supplies have COM
bined to fight the ordinance and viii test its
legality in the courts.
In the Old Pool
WILDwoop-The Keifer well, on the Price
farm, was shot Tuesday night, but failed to
make producer. 1t has been drilled through
the sand. The Metropolitan Oil Company's
No. has been shot and its production in
creased to 25 barrels an hour. Their No 2,
on the same farm, is two bits in the sand and
flowing barrels an hour. Barnsdan & Gil
lsspie,ss No. II on the Rsess sSat Which had had
Increased to 500 barrels a day.
Patterson Il CO.. well on the Espy, in the
OF tomorrow. The Smith Farm Oil COM
panys No. IL is in the sand with strong
flow of gas. twill be drilled to the pay to-
day.
New Work at McCurdy.
MoCuRDy-Forest& & Co. have a rig about COM
pleted on the Miller farm. about ~ miles in
advance Of the Forest Oil Company's Wright
farm we'll in the southwest. Drilling will be
commenced early next week. The Forest
Oil Company has commenced operations
again at the Wright farm well and will drill
it deeper. They are now in the fifth sand.
It is spraying five or six barrels of oil day.
The Orion Oil Company's well on the Bell
farm, in the northwest, did not find the pay
gotten out OF Black & Co.'S well on the An
drews farm, and it will be pushed to the
sand as rapidly as possible. The McCluskey
well is still holding up its record as first
class gasser.
The Moon Operations.
MooN-The Hervey Oil Company's No. 8,
was expected to get the pay
Yesterday, but at a late hour no report had
been received from it. Their Gross farm
well, and Bogg & Nc Clelins well on the
William Springer are due.
In Washington County.
Drilling will be commenced
early next week on the John G. Clark well
the Day farm In the TayIors-
town district the A. B. Caldwell Nos. and 9
are in and both good wells. No. 8 is
estimated at 100 barrels and No.
at IS barrels. In the Florence
field the Forest Oil Company's W. s.. Armour
No. is dry: their Abe Bailey Is good for 35
barrels a day; their T. & G. Burns No. is
good for Is barrels; the George Stroud is do
ing % barrels. The Lawrence Gas Company's
No. l William jackson is dry.
Personal.
1. B. Barbour has been appointed Superfp-
tendent of the newly-organized right Of way
of the National Transit Com
pany, covering local and connecting lines in
New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
Ohio. His headquarters will be in Oil City.
W. J. Boviard, of the firm of Bo$iard &
seyfang, machinists and dealers in oil we'll
supplies, came down from Bradford yester-
day to visit relatives in PittsburH.