Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-31
IN THE OHIO OIL FIELD.
WHAT IS DOING AMONG THE WELLS IN
THE VICINITY OF NEWPORT.

The Effect Upon the Wells at Belmont
Caused By the Floods-Big Hopes That
Some of the Drills Have Given the
Operators-Some That Were Blasted.
The Gilmour we'll on DR.. McElhaney's
farm at Newport, o., adjoining the Hender-
shot on the north, is drilling in the sand,
but is worked as a mystery, and the public
know but little about it. The Vaudeville
& Co. we'll on the Rutter farm, (Archer's
Fork) was completed yesterday at depth
of about 1,sOO feet with Il feet of sand. and
about gas enough to fire one or two boilers and
Just a show of OIL This well coming in dry is
no surprise to operators familiar with this
field, as it is one mile west of the Davis farm
well and too far to be on the supposed oil belt
The Cameron d Co. well, on the Ward farm,
500 feet east of the DAVIS farm well. is down
1,600 feet and shut down with burnt boiler.
storey & Blye have a rig completed, and are
moving in machinery on their lease near the
Davis well. Ackerly & Samuel are building q
rig on the Braden farm, goo feet from the
Davis well. Vaudeville & Co. No. 2, on Davis
farm, 1000 feet from their No. Davis, is spud-
ding. E. L. Rose & Co. are building rig on
the Hurlan farm. one mile southwest OF Davis
and Storey wells on Charles Green farm, and
Davis farm, with hope Of making the belt con-
tinuous from Green to Davis. Smith q Allen,
on the Hendershot farm, plugged their No.
well at 600 feet, and are moving their rig to
start another. Ackerly d Samuel, on the
Henderson, farm, No. ., is down 700 feet, No. 9
800 feet, and rigs building for 7and s. On the
Charles Green, No. 4 is drilling at 200 feet. No.
8 Sspudding and rig up for No. z. The well on
the Hays farm is in the sand, and the J. b.
Green farm, rig is building for No. 2. The
RIG on Squire Murphy's farm, two miles
northeast of Newport.
Flood Troubles at Belmont
The food was more disastrous to the wells
than was first thought. Some wells have been
pumping ever since and are still pumping water,
while few days pumping in others exhausted
the water and oil returned at the usual rate
The rigs are all replaced on the island, and all
will be in good running order soon- The well
on Robin run, southwest of Eureka about one
mile, that came in two weeks ago doing 60 bar
rels, is still producing about 40 The well 1000
feet southwest of this, on the Bartlett farm,
came in dry as for OIL but quite good gasser.
Jack Harmon Is drilling about 900 feet from
Robin run WELL and Warren Berry is building
rig about the same distance from it. The
Trainers OIL Company well, on French creek,
four miles southeast Of Belmont, is drilling in
sand and worked as mystery Scouts not ad-
mitted.
Some Good and Others Poor.
Warren Berry's well, on Cooper farm, one
half mile west of Little Gulch, struck flow
of oil and gas in Big InIun and burnt the rig.
The Duncan No. 2 on the j. E. Smith farm,
came in yesterday and is good for Is barrels
Little Gulch No. 2, about 400 feet from Dun
can No.. finished with neither oil, gas nor sand.
The Gale well on Middle Island, drilling for
Eureka sand, but in bottom of Big Injun struck
a nice fiow of oil, and think the well will be
good for 10 or l5 barrels. They are still drilling
slowly on account of SO much oil in the hole.
The Friendly well on the Island, supposed te
be completed about three months ago and shut
down, has since then flowed oil frequently, but
during the flood the rig. tank, and all but
Storey q Johnston went down the Ohio river,
but has been rebuilt since, and will commence
drilling first of next week, with big hopes of
opening up Wildwood gusher.
Operations at Coraopolis.
Notwithstanding the bad condition of the
roads. operations in the Coraopolis pools have
been quite active. During the month ten wells
have been completed, one of which is dry, the
other nine giving productIon of 265 barrels a
day. W. L. MELONS No. 8, Kerr, has settled
down to 30 barrels Mr. Mellon was less suo-
cessful on the Sterling, his MOI coming in
dry. but his No. Logan, is rated at Is barrels
day.
Black & Emerson completed a ten-barrel
well on the jolly another doing 40 on the
Ritter. One on the Curry, good for % and
pumper. Drake & Mechlin, No. Springer, has
settled down to 30 barrels a day. The Forest
OIL found a 20 barreler on the Getty and one on
the Nicely now doing 40 barrels in "a hours.
Came Down With q Rush.
Dummier & Co.'s stone quarry well at Jack.
sons, which was shot on Friday and started off
at 30 barrels per hour, did not hold out at that
rate very long, but soon dropped down. and is
now making so barrels per day. Helm Oil
Company gave their No. Helm and the Ro-
bella gave their No. Straw a shot the same
day, But did not learn the results from these
wells II. Nice.