Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-26
THE DAYS OIL BUDGET.
Few Encouraging Strikes Reported
From the Fields Yesterday
WELLS AT MOON AND CLIFF MINES.
An Immense Gasser Struck in Erie County
Near HarbOr Greek.
OIL REPORTS FROM DOWN THE RIVER

the most part they were discouraging. No
new territory was opened up, while some
that was thought to be good was practically
condemned. The production of Allegheny
county is not increasing, but wells which
are expected in within q couple of weeks
should add TO it materially.
The Fields in Detail.
wmDwooD-The redeeming feature of this
pool yesterday was the Forst & Greenlee
No. J. on the Hazlett farm. 1t was reported
last to be doing % barrels an hour. 1t is
directly west of the Alston No. l. The
Smith Farm Oil Company's No. IL was
due last night, but at late
hour had not been heard from The Roth
Oil Company's well on the c. Q; Smith farm
was reported to be q feet in the sand last
night, with no showing. 1t is looked upon
as failure. Greenlee & Forst's No. 2, on the
Aston farm, will be in to-day. The Metro
politan Oil Companys No.2, on the hohlbar:
Is two bits in the sand, and no showing of
The Work at McCurdy.
AIoCuRpY- Mellon Co. are rigging up
their No. !, Jane Riddle. They have rigs up
for their Nos. 8 and 5, James Riddle. Their
Scott No. is 1900 feet deep, and their
} Dougherty No. is in the Gordon. The
Orion OIL Company's well on the
Joseph Bell farm is due to-mor-
row. Guffey & MurPhy's Kerr No;
2 was shot Saturday night and
half of oil in the tank. is looked upon as
25 or 30-barrel well. Patterson & Falls
well on the HARRISON farm is expected to
is in the southwestern part of the field, and
a short distance from Scott station on
the Montour Railroad, Black Cuff
feys' No. l Ewing in the extreme
northwest has been tubed. 1t has three feet
of oil in the tank and is showing for a 30 bar
rel well. The Forest Oil Company's well on
the Ewing farm. about which there have
1,aar ep mo anf fn
go yet TO reach the sand. The well
was delayed by a fishing job, which
ing past the tools in the hole. The
well is located about mile and a half south
west from the McCurdy No. l. on a 22o line,
and it is 100 rods south of the Forest Wright
farm well, which is on 45o line from the
McCurdy. The Wright well has been drilled
seven feet below the McCurdy sand, and is
believed to be an edge well. 1t is spraying
oil, and, If the Ewing well is dry, the
pool will be looked for to the west of
the $50 line. A gauge of the late wells at Nc
Curdy is as follows: The Bear Creek Refining
% barrels an hour; the Fisher Oil Company's
W. E. Riddle No 3, Il barrels an hour:
jerome Aiken & Co.'S Parsonage No. Q, 400
barrels a day; Gillespie,s S Nos Riddle, 800 bar
rels a day: his No. L. 200 barrels a day: Mellon
& Co.'s No. Scott 260 barrels day; Sill,
O'Deu & Co.'s No. Adams, 800 barrels a day;
Mellon & Co, IS No. Palmer 800 barrels, and
the Bear Creek Refining Company and Brad
ley's No. . Adams, $50 day.
Well at Moon.
MooS-Bradley & Murphey's well on the |
William Springer farm got the sand last |
night, and is showing for one of the biggest |
wells in the field. Forst Co.'s well on the |
Hamburger farm, in the extreme northern 1
part of the pool, is about due.
Another Pocket Opened.
CLIFF MINEs-The Fisher Oil Company's |
No on the Stewart farm came yesterday, |
Nd Sc forQ Fna7- dov ,air G
on the same farm is due Wednesday. Their
No 2 on the William Adams is due this week,
and their well on the Alexander Adams is |
down 400 feet, and their Tolton No. 200 feet.
The two wells OF the Jeftreys Oil Company |
on the Elliott farm are due next week.
Around Coraopolis.
CoRAoPoL1s-Mellon & Co.'s No. 8, on the |
Cassidy farm, is on top of the Hundred Foot. I
Their No. 10 Kerr is down 700 feet, and their.
Nos. 2and 8, on the Parry farm, 800 feet.
They have rigs up for their Nos. land on |
the Meeks.
New Operations
TURKEY FooT-The Bridgewater Gas Com
pany has resumed operations in this field |
and are drilling well on the Crawford and
one on the Widow Brice farms.
Down the River.
SrEwART's LANDING, O.-The well of the
Millers Run Oil Company, near this place, is
d
well of more than ordinary capacity. 1t has
been flowing oil in the river for several
days, and the owners have Just
about completed two tanks of
600 barrels capacity each. The well
is only about !, 400 feet deep, and the con-
tractor claims that it is only in the stray.
1t is being tubed. The Eureka and Belmont
fields are on a 45o line southwest. Stewards
Landing is in Monroe county, O.. and di- |
rectly across the river from Sistersville W.
Va.
In West Virginia.
BEIMoNT-William Johnson's 'tomcat',
well on French creek, back of Belmont |
which. was shut in last November, was
opened up this week and found to be filed |
up from the rock with salt water. There was
Just showing of oil, and it will be drilled |
deeper. Bosher, Boss a Bosher's well on the
Russ Hammett farm, at Eureka, is due this
this week. The Brown OIL Company's No. s. |
on the Hendricks farm, at Belmont, is doing |
40 barrels a day. 1t has been rugged up for
pumping.
In Butler County.
MURRTNSvILLE-The well which Percival
drilled on the Ambrose Dougherty farm and
which has been reported as good for 25 or 80 !
day. GucSert & Co. have commenced a well
on the Mortland farm
A Beaver Wildcat.
BEAvER-The well which W. S. Watson &
Co. have been drilling near Black Hawk
reached the first sand yesterday. There was
no showing of OIL 1t will be drilled deeper. |
A Tremendous Gasser.
ERIE-A report from Harbor Creek saws:
"a gas well about three miles from this
place was drilled in at O'Clock Saturday
afternoon. When the pocket was reached
there was a report like the discharge of a
The casing was thrown up into the |
air, and the drillers ran to save their lives !
Two hundred and eight feet of pipe were |
thrown a distance of two squares and peb- |
bles few out of the well with the velocity of |
a bullet. The roaring of the well could be |
heard for miles. People 1iocked to the place,
One Of the drillers ascended a tree and
threw torch into the air, when a tremen-
dous explosion followed. The well now
lights up brightly the entire country
side. The pressure is so heavy that it has |
not yet been possible to take guage. On
the Cass farm, near this well, there is one
already IN showing pressure of l3O pounds.
Personal
W. p. Black, who is member of half q
dozen oil-produc1ng firms, but is best known
in connection with Mayor E. O. Emerson, of
Titusvflle, returned last night from the
latter city, where he spent Sunday
U. III. Strong, a popular young producer |
who lives in Olean, n. Y, was in Pittsburg |
yesterday. He is on his way home from
West Virginia and is theguest of his brother |
in-law, Colonel P. NJ. shannon, of the East
End.
Barney Forst, of the firm of Forst &
Greenlee, is visiting friends in Bradford and |
the upper country.
j. c. Mckinney, of Titusville, who is now
one of the largest stockholders in the Mid
land Oil Company, which is operating in |
Clarion and Armstrong counties, is at the !
Hotel Anderson.