Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-04
GORDON SAND AGAIN.
More Good Wells Completed Yester-
day in This Formation.
THREE LIGHT FIFTH SANDERS
Oil Equal to the Pennsylvania Product Dis
covered in Canada.
DRAINAGE IN SOUTHWEST MDONALD

DRAINAGE IN SOUTHWEST M'DONALD
The Gordon sand has again come to the
front with better showing than the rock
in the fifth sand level The gas needed to
throw out the oil from the fifth sand, es-
pecially in the southwestern end of the
field, is wanting, and in the neighberhood
of the Miller, the Mevey, the Elliott
and Sturgeon wells there are still plenty of
locations which in an ordinary territory
could hold many more wells than there are
at present, but in this locality the gas
which was used in the creation of the re-
markable gushers of month ago has been
drawn from many acres of rock and left it
almost barren. There can be no question
about the territory being drained, as in the
most of the wells which have been drilled
since, superior quality of sand was
found but no oil or gas. A member
of big prod ucing firm in this locality said
yesterday that hereafter when they secured
even a moderate sized Gordon sand we'll
they would not drill to the fifth and take
chances on spelling their well in the Cor
don sand, and of getting no oil in the fifth.
1t is claimed that well which is doing 200
or 500 barrels an hour will drain hundreds
of acres of sand providing the belt is not too
wide and the results of the best crop of
wells in the southwestern part of field seems
to bear out this statement.
Guckert & Steele's No. on the Mevey
farm will make about $50 barrels day from
the fifth sand. Their No. is due to reach
the Gordon sand tomorrow. No. 10 on the
same lease is 1000 feet deep; No. Z, 1880,
and No. 8, 1000 feet Their we'll on the
Thompson property is down about ], 800
feet, and at their venture near Willow
Grove they are drilling at 500 feet
Another Good Gordon Sander.
Russell, Kahn, johnson & Co s well on
the Southerly lot is about five feet in the
Gordon sand and is making 300 barrels a
day. This well is on the Noblestown road
about 200 feet from the eastern line of Nc
Donald borough. The Liberty Oil Com
pany's well on the Johns lot in the borough
limits is on top of the Gordon. Rend &
Robbins we'll on the Slaughterhouse lot is
about through the Gordon sand and is max
ing about $50 a day. 1t will be
drilled to the fifth sand W. P Rend's No.
on his own property is through the Cor
don and making 15O barrels day. Green
lee & Forst's well on the Marshall lot at
Noblestown is through the Gordon and has
only 800 feet of oil in the hole. 1t has
failed to make flow from the third sand
and will be drilled down to the fifth. The
Royal Gas Company's Nos. and on the
Sauters property will make small bumpers
good in the fifth sand, the formation of
which was broken by shelves of slate.
Black, Crawford, Wise & Coz we'll on the
Ayers lot is about through the Gordon
sand and is making only two barrels an
hour They will not stop drilling until the
fifth is reached Shay, Hogue & Co. s we'll,
on the Dougherty property east of devel-
opments and half mile east of the Rend
No. 1, is down 1000 feet. Greenlee u
Forst's No. 16, on the Mevey farm, is
through the Gordon sand and very
light in that formation. Their No. on the
Miller farm should reach the Gordon sand
Monday afternoon McNal1 & Co. s we'll
on the church lot at Noblestowr was on top
of the Gordon sand last evening. Guffey,
Murphy & Galey's No. 5 on the Elliott
farm was drilling in the fifth yesterday
afternoon, and showing for good producer
The Oakdale Oil Company's No. on the
Morgan farm was in the Gordon sand
yesterday. The Devoniar Oil Companv's
No 8, on the j. H. Robb farm, should be
in the Gordon sand to-day. No. on the
same farm is down LOO feet. Their Nos. 8
and T. on the Elliott farm, are each down
about 900 feet.
Two Small Wells Reported.
In the extreme southwestern end of
the McCurdy field the develop
ments yesterday were not of an
encouraging character for the operators
Leonard Shaffer farm was drilled through
the fifth sand and will make about so bar
rels day. Gordnier, Kennedy & Co.'s
No. 4 Mertz also went through the fifth
and will be small well. The Devonian
Oil Company expects to finish up its No 2
on the Boyce heirs property to-day or to-
morrow. 1t is located for as big
a well as their No. 1 on the James farm
They are rigging up their Nos. 8 and on
this property and building the rig for No. s.
The Forest Oil Company should complete
its No. 6, on the Leonard Shaffer farm, to-
morrow or Monday, and No. is due to get
Farm Oil Company's No. 1, on the Kendry
property, is due in the fifth by next Friday.
1t is located about 45O feet southeast
of the Forest Oil Company's we'll
on the James McGregor farm. The latter
was drilled deeper yesterday morning and |
its production increased from 35 to 80
barrels an hour. Hussler, Davis, Bott,
Margant Carvers No. 1, on the Boyce farm,
was also agitated yesterday, and pumped |
from 80 to so barrels an hour. The No. |
Boyce belonging to the same parties is
down 1900 feet, and they have a |
rig up for No. 8. They have also located |
three more rigs on this property. |
Coast & Co. are down 900 feet on the Nc |
Michael farm. The original rig for this |
we'll burned some weeks ago. Lutz & Son |
will start to drill Monday on the Shupe |
farm, east of the Tidball property in the |
McCurdy district. Mechlin & Co. are still |
fishing on top of the fifth sand at their
well on the Collins property back of Oak
dale, and Kennedy, Fitzgibbons & Co.
have started TO spud on the Kennedy farm
Unless the next crop of wells on the Kelso |
and Boyce farms prove very small there |
will be a great deal of activity in this To-
cality for the next two months. From
present indications the pool at this point
has an east and west tendency. The terri |
tory to the northeast and southwest Of it is
pretty we'll defined, and the only outlet it
can have is either to the east or to the west
After Fishing Eleven Months.
BiKERsTowN-The Butchers Oil Com
pany's No. 1, on the Clendenning farm, is
making about Is barrels an hour 1t reached
the fifth sand early last January, and Just
as the tools were entering the pay the rope
was switched of. All attempts to fish out
the tools have so far been unavailing, but
yesterday they succeed in drilling past
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