Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
MIDNIGHT SHOOTING.
Producers Resorting to Glycerine to
Boom Their Wells.
ONE FIFTH-SANDER YESTERDAY.
The Georgetown, Beaver County, Well Has
Stopped Flowing.
WELLS WHICH ARE DUE AT MDONALD

Only one, Gufey, Jennings & Co. s No. 8
Matthews, of the many wells drilling in the
McDonald-McCurdy. field reached the fifth
sand yesterday. There was a decrease of
1900 barrels in the estimated production of
the territory for the "a hours ending yester-
day morning. 1t would have been still more
but for the fact that some of the old wells
were agitated, and their output increased.
thereby offsetting the decline. The producers
whose wells are falling off rapidly, or who
have light wells near big ones, are doing
everything possible to make their property
productive. There is a great deal more
shooting done than appears on the surface
streets or roads in daylight. Scarcely
night goes by, however. that they
are not out in force, and the
compound in the dead or dying wells. The
| truth is that producers are ashamed or
afraid to let their neighbors know of the
| subtle methods they are taking to get the
| oil. Just why it is so is hard to determine,
but it is a fact, nevertheless. Midnight shoot
ing Is more common now than 1T was IN
man is compelled to put in a shot to
| revive an old well he seems loath to admit
it to his neighbors but the great amount
been practically dead from the start. The
| sands, both the Gordon and fifth, have been
proven to be very much like the circus leop-
ard, and when a good well is brought in
small from the start, the owner
of the latter almost always puts in a heavy
shot in the hope of breaking up the sur
rounding rock sufficiently to open his well
into the pool from which the adjoining well
is drawing its oil. With all of the shooting
that has been done however, the production
has not been increased by this means, as has
been the case in former fields.
Sixty Barrels an Hour.
Gufrey, Jennings & Company's No Mat
thews was drilled into the fifth sand late
last evening, and started off at go barrels an
hour. 1t is east of north from their No. l
about 1,2o0 feet, and is east 400 feet of a
tNangeRt between the No Matthews tf land and
was one Gordon well completed.
1t is Guckert & Steeles No. 10 on the
Mevey farm, located in the extreme SOUTH
west corner of that property, near the
Laurel Hill station. 1t reached the Gordon
late Thursday night and in the ensuing II
hours put $50 barrels into the tanks. Whether
%l fhis Eat If
on the Tourney lot northeast of Mcdonald
was flowing at the rate of 225 barrels day
from the Gordon sand yesterday. The Royal
Gas Company'S No. l on the Sauters four |
acres located 800 feet southwest from the |
Tourney No. q is down 1,S5O feet Schreffier
& Russelrs well on the Moorhead lot |
in the borough was one bit in the Cor
don yesterday morning and they expected |
to be ready to drill in last evening. Ho- |
THAN Hite's we'll on the Coviack lot north |
the Gordon and will not make more than q
10 or 12-barrel well in that sand. Dorman & |
Co, on the Head farm, 500 feet east of Nc |
Donald station, are on top OF the Gordon |
sand. The Peoples Gas Company has rigs |
up and building for their Nos 13l, 1872 1873 |
and lSi on the Miller farm northeas st of Nc |
Donald.
An Interesting WeI.
The Pittsburg Oil Company's WELL on the
Reed farm, three miles southwest of Melon
aid, is drilling again and should be in the |
Gordon tonight or Monday morning Hay
maker Bros, on the McConnaughty farm, to
the southwest, are down 1,00O feet. Tomlin-
son, Curtis & Co., on the DR.. Miller farm,
mile south of the Rend well. are
down 1000 feet The Venture Oil Company's
we'll. on the Woods farm, will reach the
Forst's No. IL Mevey should be in the fifth
sand to-day. Their No. Miller should be
in the Gordon Monday, and No. is 1900 feet
deep.
The Forest Oil Company's No. NJ Nc
Gregor was four bits in the sand yesterday,
and not showing big. They lost a bailer In
barrels an hour. Their No IL shafrer should
get the fifth to-day, and the Robert McClel-
land heirs will be in the Gordon this after
No. 2 Ewing. Colonel Hedrick expects to
reach the fifth to-day on the Walker heirs
farm. Patterson Jones No. Kelso, is
1
Oil Company's No. 5, Sturgeon heirs, may
get the fifth sand pay this afternoon.
Mellon & Co.'s No. 7 Neeley, and No Ew-
fishing at No. Neeley and No. Mertz.
The Georgetown Well No Good.
The excitement over the well at George
town, Beaver county, has entirely subsidized.
So has the well. 1t stopped flowing Thurs
day night and has not produced a barrel |
since. The hopes of farmers in that locality
6anv, Al,o1 1,.1la A. 1
produced is of a poor quality, and the Pitts
burg operators who visited the well came |
back disguised yesterday.
Gauges and the Runs.
Wells which are not making 20 barrels an
hour are not included in the following
gauges. The production of the wells max
ing 20 barrels an hour or more yesterday was |
as follows: Guffey, Jennings & Co.'S No.
80: No. 2 Matthews, 90 No. l
heirs. no: No. Heron, %; Nos
ply & Galey's No. Elliot, %. Nos. land ? Sam
Sturgeon, 40. Oakdale Oil Company's Nos. l
and Baldwin, 80; Nos l and Wallace. 80;
Morgan, 80: No. 8 Morgan, As; No 4 Morga an,s0.
Forest Oil Company's No. Eta Glenn, 40;
No. j. NJ. Glenn. 35; No. 3 Heron, 20: No
No. Meyey, so; No: Mevey. s5: No Gam
ble 80. Woodland Oil Company's MOL Gam
Die, 80: No. Gamble. 80. Patterson & Jones'
No. Kelso, so; No. Kelso, 30. Devon1an OIL
Nos. and 2 Boyce, 100. MOI
Elliott, 40. Royal Gas Conpanys No. NJ.
Robb, 40. Jennings & Co.'s No. Welchier |
70. Guckert & Steele's No. 3 Mevey, 25. The \
production of the field was As, 900 t
barrels and the stock in the field
00,o 900 barrels. The runs from Mcdonald
Thursday were 52s60.20 barrels. Outside of
the Southwest pipe line runs were
,240.66 barrels, total of g., 1O0.S6. National
Transit runs were 40,7l676 barrels: ship
nents. 6ss7407: Macksburg runs, Ils9s4.
eureka runs, 6,06S 10; shipments I55O20 |
pipe line shipments, 8, l69 95 Buck
ye runs were 45029.75; shipments, l,346.34
,arrels.
Yesterdays Market Features.
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