Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-31
WILL NOT STAY DOWN.
The Mcdonald Gushers Are Now Pro-
ducing About $4,000 Barrels.
FIGURES FOR CONTEMPLATION.
There Are Twelve Wells Which Should
Reach the Pay To-Day.
TWO DRY HOLES FINISHED YESTERDAY

TWO DRY HOLES FINISHED YESTERDAY
The month just ending has been the great
est in the history of white sand oil products
: The Mcdonald field has covered itself with
grease and glory. 1t has produced more
oil in the last 80 days than was ever pro-
duced before from white sand rock. The
highest daily production of the month has
been reserved for the last. Yester.
day the output of the field was
estimated as about $4,000 barrels. These
figures will no doubt be disputed by some
people who are ignorant of the facts and by
all of the jealous producers, especially those
in the upper country who have no interest
in the field. A simple formula will suffice,
however, to show them that $4,000 is even
below the actual production. Take the
figures given below in the gauge as
the production of the larger wells
per hour and multiply them by "a.
The result will show the combined produc-
tion of the wells whose gauges are given to
be 2,970 barrels per hour, or q, $50 barrels
per day. Even this is very conservative
estimate, as almost every owner of a we'll
named will say that his we'll is not credited
with as much oil as it is producing He
will say that the gauge is too low entirely
Be that as it may, the 1880 barrels
| do not include Patterson & Jones
No. 1 on the Kelso farm which was drilled
deeper yesterday, and its production in
creased from 100 to 800 barrels per hour.
Shaffer, which reached the fifth sand yes
terday and last evening was producing from
| 40 to so barrels an hour, W. L. Melons
Neeley farm we'll with a production of 40
barrels an hour is not a part of the Il, ,2SO
| barrels.
| Additions to Be Made.
Add to this the daily production of these
wells, the small producers which are
making from so to $50 barrels a day, and
the Gordon sand wells which are producing
| from 100 to 500 barrels per diem, and the
entire production of the field will be found
to go considerably above $4,000. 1t is only
persons who have no production in
the field, and are ignorant of the
to cry down the production. Unfortunately
the natural gas is too strong, and the oil
continues to come from the recesses where
it has been hidden for years, to the utter
confusion of the calamityites. No account
is taken of the stocks backed up in the
field by the bears on production. A writer
not more than a week ago stated that Green
lee s. Forst's No ! Mevey had fallen
off so much in production that it was not
worth reporting any longer. This same
WELL not worth reporting. was at the time
making 40 barrels an hour. 1t is true that
the old wells are rapidly declining Yes
terday, for instance, the No. 3 Miller, of
Hays & Gartland stopped flowing entirely.
For some time, however, it has been making
only about ten barrels an hour. So
far the decline in the old wells has
been more than offset by new production,
and as long as this is the case the general
output of the field will be in the ascendant.
Twelve Wells About Completed.
There are 10 wells in the McDonald-Mc-
Curdy field which should get the pay streak
in the fifth sand to-day or Monday. They
are fairly good locations, and there can be
little doubt but that they will more than off
set any decline between to-day and Tuesday.
These wells are the Oskdale Oil Company's
No. 1 on the Wallace farm and No 1 on the
Hopper farm; Gufey, Murphy & Galey's
No. 2 on the Sam Sturgeon: Hays & Cart
land No. Z, Miller; Greenlee & Forst's No
6, Mevey; the Forest Oil Company's No. 1,
Eta Glenn, No l, r. w. Glenn, and No. g.
Shaffer: the Wallace Oil Company's well
on the lumber yard property, near McDon-
aid station; S. J. Fisher & Co s well on
the slaughter house lot, back of Oak
UaIe, hODDlnS O. TO-. Oh Vn6 MCMlC0del,
and Mellon & Co. s No. 1, Mertz.
Two Disappointments.
Guckert & Series No. 8, on the Mevey
farm, was drilled through the sand yester-
day and is dry in that rock. 1t is only
couple of hundred feet northeast of HAYS &
Gartland's No. 5, Miller which started off
at go barrals an hour and is still doing 20
barrels. The sand in the Mevey No. was
as good as any that has been found in the
field. George Wolfe & Co.'S well, on the
Wilson lot, reached the Gordon
sand yesterday and is making 800 bar
rels day from that formation. |
w. L. Mellon and A. w. Campbell finished |
dry hole yesterday on the Isaac A. Ewing |
farm in southwest McCurdy. 1t is through |
the sand. Mr. Campbell leased all of the |
territory in southwest McCurdy in which |
Mr. Mellon is interested and holds a one
half interest in all except 16 acres. This |
territory includes eight farms which are |
now being thoroughly tested. They have a |
rig completed for No. 2 on the Ewing farm
just east OF Mcdonald borough Davis s.
Brown are down 800 feet in their No. |
l on the brickyard lot and 500 feet
on No. 2. W. P. Black is
ready to spud near the pump station. Ker-
ner s. NIcClurg are down 800 feet on the
Goldplate property. w. P. Black & Co.'S
Thomasy lot we'll is 1, 400 feet deep. Brown
& Robson are building rig on the Nc
Murray lot at Noblestown. Guffey, Jen-
nings & CO.. No. 3 Bell is on top of the
Gordon sand. Black & Frink's we'll on the
Charlier lot, at Mcdonald, is just In the
Gordon and making 200 barrels day.
Black & Co. s sauters well is still doing 800
a day from the Gordon.
Gauges of the Wells.
The following is a gauge of the big
wells per hour: Mathews No.
l, 275; Heron No. /, $50; No 2, 70;
No. 4, 375; Bell No. l, 80: No. 2, 14O; Bald
win, $50; Elliott No. /, 80; No. 9, 145; De-
vonian Oil Company's No. 1 Elliott, 300;
Forst & Greenlee's No. Mevey, 20; No 3,
140; No. 4, $50; Sturgeon heirs No. l. 20;
No. ., 100; Muller No. /, so; No. 3, rs; No.
4, 40; Morgan heirs No. 1, 125; Sam Stur-
geon, 20: NJ. Robb 40; Hoffman & Co. s No.
2 Moore, so; Gamble No. l, So; Fayall No
2, 10; Bowman & Co. No. l Johns, 20;
Rend, 10; Conklin & Co., Is; Black & Co,
40; Miller, Meyer & Co., 80; Shaffer, 40:
Patterson & Co., 80. The Southwest Pipe
Line runs from the field yesterday were
&c, ,914, 10 barrels.
Personal.
Daniel O'Day, of Buffalo; c. n. Payne
and Joseph Seep, Titusville, well-known
day
John P. Zane, of Bradford, probably the
most widely-known upper country pro-
ducer, and James Robinson, of Bradford,
of the gauging department
of the National Transit Company, visited
the Mcdonald field yesterday. Their only
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