Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-28
THERE is NO LET UP.
THE MCDONALD FIELD STILL PRO-
DUCING THOUSANDS OF BARRELS.

| Sturgeon Heirs Is Showing Big-Wells in
the Wildcat Territory to the Southwest
Being neutrality-suspicious. in the Nc
Curdy Field.
| The most impressive feature of the Nc
! Donald field yesterday was its production.
This was still lowering around the 5000
barrel mark last evening. Notwithstanding
report to the contrary published in a
morning paper yesterday, the produc-
tion has gone to nearly 10000
barrels, 1t may have failed to
reach that point by perhaps 1000 or
! 1,5OO barrels, but it was in close proximity
to it. The same paper which ridiculed the
idea of the field doing 70, 600 barrels, pub
lished report only few days ago in which
it stated that the production was nearly
| 100. 900 barrels a dav. Either the writer of
these articles is badly ratified or he has in
formants who use him to further
their own ends by giving him
false reports of the production. There
never has been day that THE DISPATCH
has been far wrong in the estimation of the
production of the Mcdonald field and its
readers can count upon its reports in this
particular as being correct. The
unsophisticated young man who
made the statements in the
morning paper mentioned was of course
innocent in that he did not know the facts
and could not therefore speak from a
positive knowledge Of the sitGation. Such
ignorance is to be pitied and not ridiculed.
For many DAYS the field has been producing
from IS, 900 to 20, 900 barrels and no one who
keeps thoroughly posted in regard to the
well will dispute it.
The Sturgeon Heirs Well.
About the only innovation yesterday was
Guffey, Murphy and the Oakdale Oil Com
pany's No. 3, on the Sturgeon heirs, which
came in yesterday afternoon and started
of at 70 barrels an hour. The pay
streak was struck at Is feet in the sand
This well is on the Western edge
developments, and may open some new ter
ritory to the west of the Elliott and Robe
farms 1t was reported yesterday that big
bonuses were being paid for farms at the
northwest of these, as it was the general
belief that there is a cross belt running
northwest and southeast which traveEse, the
Miller, Mevey, Robb and Rend farms,
also the town lots and small leases interven-
ing. The fact is a score of new rigs are now
completed between the mines at Laurel Hill
and the pump station at Willow Grove.
The derricks have been put up on every
foot of territory. Even the school
is rig in NoblestoHn which
is located on the upper side of church
yard, and the bailing3 from the wells run
down and cover up the marble blocks
which Indicate the resting place of the dead.
This, howevSr, excites no comment. The
living are all striving after wealth. They
want it to come quick, and, as the gentle
men in India sung, ga cup to the dead al
ready, and hurrah for the next that dies!'
The Oil Country Sentiment.
This seems to be the sentiment in the
oil country. The rush for wealth, the
hurry, the fever, the abnormal energy, all
contribute to the forces which 60 to make
up the men of this region. Consequently
they are known as money-grasping lot of
ghouls, but always ready to invest a few
dollars on chance in which a few hundred |
are to be made.
There is great deal of interest now CENTER
ing in the country to the southwest of Nc !
Donald. This property has not been fully |
developed by any means, and every man |
who has a 1O-acre lease on 45-degree line |
southwest of Mcdonald considers him. |
self to be worth at least as many |
thousands of dollars. The fact is |
there have been no wells drilled to the |
southwest except the McCarty farm well |
of Mellon & Co, which is doing about IS |
got nothing in the Gordon. The wildcat |
ventures to the east and south of the well |
are being watched as closely as ever a hawk |
gazed upon a chicken coop. The outcome |
Will be determined only by the drill and the |
scouts who have been following up the wells |
will neither make a market or break one |
by their reports
Greenlee & Forst shot their No ., on the |
Mevey farm yesterday without increasing |
its production materially.
Operations in McCurdy.
MCCURDY-The following list comprises |
a full list of the wells in the McCurdy field /
and their respective depths: W. L. Mellon |
& Co. S Mertz No. l, 2, 100; No. ., 1860; No
g. 1870 No. /, 1,525; No. 5, 1000; Neeley
No. l, 1.500; No. 3, rig; No. 4, 1000; No. 5,
1, 400; No. 6, rig; Taylor No l, 1900; No. q
rig; No. ,, rig: Ewing No. 1, 1900 feet; |
Fisher Oil Company's Mertz No. 2, 1,6O0;
The Forest Oil Company's No. l Shaffer
came in late last night, aud is doing so bar
rels an hour. 1t is not yet drilled into the |
sand. This farm is located in Southwest
McCurdy. Forst & Greenlee shot their
No. on the McVey farm, and it will prob
ably pay for itself
Gauges of the Wells
The production yesterday was estimated
at 73, 600 barrels. The gauges of the big
wells yesterday showed the Matthews: to be
doing 300 barrels per hour, Bell No. l, so;
Bell No 2, 140; Heron No. 1, $50; HerrcI
No. 2, 100; Heron No 4, 325; Baldwin,
lbs; Elliott No. 8, $50; Elliott No. l,
30; Morgan No. 1, $50; Sam Sturgeon
No. l, 90; Forst & Greenlee's No Mevey,
LOO; No. 3 Mevey, 125; No. 4 MeVey, $50;
Sturgeon heirs, 20; Miller No. l., 5O Nos.
and 5, 100; No. 4, 40; Finegan & Down
ing's No. 1 Elliott, 20; z. Robb, 40; Hof;.
man & Co.'S No. Moore, 50; Gamble, So;
Fayall No. g. 20; Conklin & Co., 25; Bow
man g. Co., 80, and w. P. Rend's well 20
barrels. The runs from Mcdonald vester-
day were 81, 234 barrels.