Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
BIG GORDON SAND WELLS.
THEY ARE LOCATED JUST EAST OF
MCDONALD BOROUGH.

Noticeable Decrease in the General Pro.
duction-A Number of Wells Which Are
Drilling Near the Fifth Sand The
Gauges of the Wells and the Runs.
A noticeable feature of the Southwest
field Saturday was the marked decrease in
the general production. Without a
moments warning it fell from 81, 500 barrels
to 56, 500 barrels, but the stock in the
field went up from about ia, 900 to
164, 600. Yesterday, however, the produc-
tion went up TO 6e,00l barrels
This was due to the agitation of a number OF
the old wells. Patterson Jones drilled
their Nos. and Kelso tteper, and each of
them went to nearly zoe barrels an hour.
the sam Sturgeon No. of Guffey, Murphy
4 Galley also made big jump under agita-
ton. Patterson & Jones are drilling
Nos. 4, .. and on the Kelso
farm and each of them are Gown several
hundred feet. They are now trying 10 get
the tools out of their No Kelso, which was
abandoned some time apo, and il successful
it will be drilled to the fifth sand. The
Forest Oil Company finished up its No. on
the Ewing iarm Saturday. 1t will make
about 500 barrels day. Their No. on the
Shaffer farm is Though the sand and dry.
Gordon Sand Wells to the Front.
Brenneman & weiser got the Gordon sand
Saturday in Their well on the Tilmont lot
just east of Mcdonald borough and it started
OFF at 80 barrels an hour. Howard Thomp-
son & Co. drilled their well on the Monn-
lingrig lot into the Gordon. and it is doing
from. 30 tc 35 barrels an hour. This is Mr.
Thompson's first venture in the Mcdonald
field The Wheeling Gas Company's well on
the Moorhead farm was reported to be on
top OF the Gordon sand late Saturday night
and showing some oil. There was also a re-
port that it was through all sands and dry
but this was generally discredited. There
are half a dozen wells which should get the
frt, n Ii Sz,,f
Line runs from the field Saturday were
IS, 226. 81 barrels.
Gauges of the Wells.
The gauges of the big wells Saturday
showed the following to be their average
per hour: Guffey, Jennings & Co.'S No. 1
Mathews, l40: their No. Heron, s4: Nos. 9
and Heron, COZ; Bell No. ., 20; Bell
No. 4, Is: Oakdale Oil Company's No.
Baldwin, 32; No. Wallace, IS; No. l Nor
gan heirs, %: Sturgeon heirs No. ., is; Guffey,
Murphy & Galey's No. Elliott, Is; No.
Elliott, s.: No. l sam Sturgeon, is;
Companys No Eta Glenn. 130: No. J.
Nj. Glenn. 56: No. l Shsffer. .; No. 3 Shaffer.
10: No. Shaffer, 2: No. ) Heron, 6i: No.
Heron, lI6: Forst Greenlees No: Mevey,
65; No. 4 Mevey, 20: No. Gamble, IS; Hays &
Gartland's No. ), %: Royal Gas Company's
No. l VI. Robb, is; Devonian Oil Company's
No. Elliott, q: No. Elliott IS; Hoffman
Company's No l Gamble, 80; W. p.
Rend's No. 1 Rend. "a; Black &
Co.'S No l Sauters, Is; Miller q Co.'S No. l,
McDorald, 20: Patterson & Co.'S No. Sau-
tiers. IS: Wheeling Gas Companys No. l
Cook lot, 10: Guckert Il Steele's No. 5 Mevey,
p: Patterson and Jones No . kelso. l03: No.
keiso, us: Gordiner& Co.'S No. Mertz, ID;
Guffey & Queens No. l Wetmore, Il: De-
vonian Oil Company's No Boyce l25; For
est Oil Company's No. Wright, 3S: Davis &
Browns No. 1 Drickyard, 10.