Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-06
A BIG BUBBLE BURST.
Only Two Producing Wells in the
Much-Vaunted St. Mary's Pool.
MANY POOR PEOPLE vICTIMIzED.
Prolific Fairview Now the Big End of the
Warrington Field.
NEWS FROM THE PETROLEUM FIELDS
ESPECIAL rELEGRAk TO THE p1sPArcH.,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArCH.l
ST. MARYs, Feb. 5.-The excitement
that characterized the st. Marys pool three
or four months ago has comparatively sunk
into insigni6canee. Out of eight wells
completed only two producers were found.
One was the old Duncan well, which started
the craze and is now making about 25 bar
rels day. The other is known as the Little
Gulch we'll, and has record OF 80 barrels a
day. There has been over $40, 600 sunk here
in drilling dry holes.
Most OF the wells were stocked by sharpers
of Wheeling and Parkersburg at $40, 900
apiece, and station agents, BARRIERS. widows
and orphans were gulled into taking stock.
1t was this class that paid the bill. When
the Duncan well was first struck the dive
for territory has but few parallels in the
southwest district. In one instance q man
paid s., 500 bonus for one acre, one-elghth roy
atty, and when the well was completed it was
named Dennis while in another case $500 was
paid for half acre.
At present there are a number of wells
located near the dry holes and the prospects
of finding paying wells is not brilliant. The
Little Gulch No. . Is drilling at 500 feet. and
No. Reynolds has attained a depth Of $50 feet,
while Cooper No. / is down 40G feet. No. l
George Riggs has just fairly got started, and
No Riggs is in about the Same stage. The
Bear Creek Refining Oil Company is building
their No. on the Cochran farm.
Since the Vaudeville well at Archie Forks
has turned out SO well considerable new
work has been cut out here. Three miles
south of WaveTley Alexander and Fishel yes
terdsy completed a dry hole at 2 l5O feet. They
were hunting for an extension of the Eureka
pool, but found nothing but shallow and in
feriOT sand. The Poll well, two miles south of
Waverley, which has been reported as doing
seven barrels day, is making only one barrel.
The Big End of the Warrington Field.
FAIRvIEw-Falrview is now the big end of
the Warrington field. The producers here are
beginning to put on airs since the pool is show
ing so we'll. In the Fairview district there are
ten producing wells. with an aggregate daily
production of from !, 200 to 800 barrels. New
work is multiplying. and the busy scenes here
remlud one of Wildwood. Gallery and Har-
mony. Fifteen or 20 wells are drilling, and
nearly every day new ones are being started.
The deplorabe condition of the roads has
greatly retarded operations. but with the ad
vent of warm weather and good roads the vol
ume of operations will be augmented to a con-
siderable extent The last well which came in
here is located on the James Nost farm, and be-
longs to the South Penn Oil Company. 1t is
three bits in the sand and making from five to
six inches an hour. The venture may safely be
set down as a l50-barrel well. The Fisher Oil
COmpany's No ., James F. Host, are on top the
pay. but not far enough in to know much about
it. From the location of the well, the venture
should be paying one.
Progress of the Wells at Gallery.
CALLERY-Webber & Co., two lots north of
the Geohring well. is in the sand tonight, but
not deep enough for results. Forst Wahl &
Bishop No. 2 George Marburger. is 20 feet in he
sand with the hole full of oil, but the pressure
of gas is not sufficient to make 1t flow. Geohr-
ing No. is doing barrels an hour and No.
Staples, which came in few days ago at 40
barrels an hour, to-day is making only 81 bar
rels in "a hours. On the same farm GeohrIng
Il Co. have been fishing for bit during the
FOrst & Co. got started to drill on the George
Marburger No. 3, and Guckert Co. are ream-
ing down their Davidson farm well and will
drill through the l00-foot sand Collins & hey-
drick have two rigs building on the Sarah Kauf-
man and lumber on the ground for No. s. Just
across the road from these rigs Forst & Co.
have commenced a rig on the George Mar
burger tor No. 4. Gus LeIdecker has "a rig up
one mile east from Gallery on the John Kelley
farm
A Scarcity of Gas Delays at Wildwood.
WILDWoOD-The Wildwood field presents no
new features to-day. There are a number of
wells in the sand. and this location makes them
important, but owing to a shortness of gas in
this quarter of the field work has been some
what retarded.
Greenlee & Forst agitated their No. on the
six-acre lot to-day, and the product was in
creased to IS barrels an hour. Runge No. ! is
five feet in the sand and making a little more
than an inch an hour. No. 2. on the same
farm, was drilled deeper to-day and is making
seven inches an hour. No. 3 is u feet in the
sand, with no change. No. Ringheiser is
drilling in the l00-foot The Roth Oil Com
pany. on the Kyle farm, is drilling al the same
depth. Forst Greenlee, on the Alston farm,
are putting in their big casing.
Bad Fishing Jobs at OakdaIe.
OAKDALE-The Ewing wildcat well, I1S miles
east from Oakdale, is down 1000 feet They
have had fishing Job on hand at this well for
the past week. but now have the hole clear
and are drilling again. Gallow & Co. on the
F. W. Ewing farm, between Walkers Mills and
Oakdale, have reached 300 feet but are now
fishing for set of broken Jars. The McFar-
land Co. well, located east of Oakdale on the
Mcfarland Brothers farm, is down lSOO feet.
They have had protracted fishing Job on this
venture. but succeeded in getting the tools out
last night. The Gormley well has reached its
% casing.
Two Important New Wells.
WATTERs-The wildcat well drilling one
mile east of Waters station, on the Pirtsburg
and Western Railroad, by Lupher Bros &
Burke. on the Martin farm is in the sand, but
no definite Information could be gained as to
what it is good for. Peter Schmick & Co. will
soon start the drill on the Kreis farm and
Nebber Co. have finished drilling the Cen.
tennial sand on the kroft farm, which is show
ing for well
McCurdy Well Due Next Week.
MCCURDn-This field will present nothing
new until the early part of next week, when
several interesting wells will be due.
One Well at Mars.
MARs-The Snee well, on the John Balfour
is % feet in the sand and showing for 75-nar-
rel we'll MCC.