Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-13

Elliott, No. l, 100; Miller No. 1, 125: Miller
No. 9, 10; Miller No. g. $50; Forst q Green
| lees No. l Mevey, $50; Guckert q Steele's
No. Mevey, 25; Cook lot, Is; Sauters &
Co., 20; M. Robb, 80, and Patterson q Co.,
20 barrels
Wildcat and Dry.
WELLSBURG, O.-Carr Bros, of Steuben-
vile, have just finished well quarter Of
mile down the river from this place. 1t is
q gusher.
Wildcat in Clarion County.
LAwSoNHANI-The Lawsonham Oil Com
pany of which G. w. Sparks, of Pittsburg,
is President, has commenced to drill on the
| Campbell farm, one mile north of Lawson
ham. 1t is located one mile from Red Bank
| Creek, and miles up the low grade division
of the Allegheny Valley Railroad from Red
Bank Junction
In Washington County.
INDEPENDENCE-W L. Mellon and 6.
w. Sparks, of Pittsburg, are starting to
| build rig in Cross Creek township, one
mile east of Independence, on the Bole
farm. 1t is 20 miles Southwest of McDon-
| all and miles east of Wellsburg.
They Cut the Casing.
Some of the coal operators have peculiar
method of stopping the completion of a well
which bas passed through the coal veins
which they own. The Woodland Oil Com
pany and Forst & Greenlee each had wells
cased through the coal under the J. R.
GLADDEN. farm, mile southwest of Nc
| Donald. The coal is owned by I. B.
| Robbins & Co. A few Sundays ago, while
the wells were shut down and the drillers
away, miners dug through the coal into the
casing. They cut off the casing, and at the
Woodland Oil Company's well filled the
hole below the coal full of old iron. At
Forst & Greenlee's well they also cut off the
casing, and besides the hole with iron they
drove an iron pin through the end of the
casing, which projected the roof of the coal
bank. An injunction was then served on
Forst & Greenlee and on the Woodland Oil
Company to prevent them from drilling
through the coal at any other spot. What
the outcome of the affair will be is not
known, as all parties are reticent in regard
to it.
Two Leading Operators.
The men who have the largest interests in
the Mcdonald oil field are j. NJ. Guffey and
NJ. Murphy. They are both veterans in the
oil business, and each has experienced the
ups and downs, which are the lot of all who
have followed the oil development. Guffey
and Murphy are interested in the Mathews,
the Bell the Heron, the Baldwin, the
the Wallace farms. The entire lot en-
braces about 400 acres, and they are get
ting daily production from the completed
wells on the above farms of nearly 20, 900
barrels a day, or about half the production
of the entire field. There are no wells yet
completed on the Sturgeon, Hopper or
Wallace farms. In different farms they are
interested with E. H. Jennings, j. H.
DALEY, John Galloway, the Fisher Bros,
and the Oakdale Oil Company, but in the
whole block of territory Guffey and Murphy
have nearly controlling interest and con-
sequently the biggest interests in the field.
Two Small Wells Completed.
MURDoCKvILLE-W.C C. Kennedy & Co.
have completed we'll on the Sturgeon farm
which will not be better than a five-barrel
pumper. The Forest Oil Company's No. 1,
on the Smith farm, is completed, and is
practically dry.
Pipe Line Statement.
The statement of the w. L. Mellon Pipe
Line Company for the month of September
is as follows: Stocks September 1, %, 139
barrels; runs, "a, 1853 barrels; shipments,
62,972 barrels; sediment and surplus, 419
barrels; stocks September 80, 25,050 bar
rels.
Building Up New Towns.
Two villages, which have been given an
impetus by the Mcdonald oil strike, are
Noblestown and Oakdale. The former is
two miles nearer Pittsburg than Mcdonald,
and Oakdale is a mile nearer than Mobiles
town. There was considerable rivalry be-
tween them at the start, but Oakdale forged
ahead, owing to better railroad facilities in
the way of switches and sidings. Now Oak
dale is bustling, booming little town of at
least 800 inhabitants. Since the oil fever
struck the place its population has more
than trebled. On every side new buildings
are going up. Yesterday, while standing
on hill back of the town,
thirty completed buildings were counted,
while a dozen others in the course of
erection were noted. The through trains
now stop at the station and hundreds of
people arrive and depart daily There are
boiler shops, machine shops, tank shops in
active operation, while new grocery stores
and restaurants and oil well supply stores
have been added to the mercantile part of
the village. Industry is written on every
subject, animate or inanimate. The town is
so wonderfully metamorphosedt that native
who has been in California refused to leave
the train the other day when it reached the
place where he had been raised. He de-
clared it was not Oakdale, the Oakdale
he had known all his life. He objected to
get off, and it took the combined force
of trainmen to put him on the platform.
Looking around he esped one familiar face
in the crowd which surrounded him, and he
became pacifed. He has not vet become
reconciled to the new order of affairs. 70
the natives it is Sleepy Hollow in a
twentieth century robe. To the new comers
it is simply business. OakdaIe is a good
distributing point for the middle district of
the Mcdonald McCurdy field, and when
this territory comes to be thoroughly drilled
over Oakdale will boom still more There
are some of the predetermined among the |
old-timers who hope the boom will continue |
until it shall wear the proud mantle of |
a municipality.
Noblestown is not far behind. The rail |
road authorities are putting in more sidings, |
which will materially help the village It |
claims to have the better location, and may |
yet rival its northern neighbor.
Iron Tanks Going Up.
The pipe line company has two 1900 |
barrel tanks completed at Gregg station,
and one so near completion that they will |
turn oil into it to-day. Besides these they
have men at work making grades for four
others, two of which will be of $4,000 bar
rels capacity each. The principal pump
station in the field is located at this point
Yesterdays Market Features.
Trading was moderate and the market
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