Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-03
MORE M'DONALD OIL.
The Well on the Short Lot Starts Off
at Ninety Barrels an Hour.
THE OUTLOOK FOR THIS MONTH.
The McCurdy Field Should Produce Some
Good Wells This Week.
SEVERAL DRY HOLES JUST FINISHED

SEVERAL DRY HOLES JUST FINISHED
There has been another ig we'll devel.
oped in the Mcdonald field, and the chances
are there will be more before the present
week is over. The new production for Au-
gust will exceed that of all the preceding
months of the year combined. There
should be upward of 40 wells COM
pleted in the Mcdonald field alone, and
there are few of them that will be
absolute failures, while many may start of
at several hundred or a thousand barrels a
day. There are already over $500, 900 in
vested in the field in wells and bonuses, and
it will take a great many thousand barrels
of oil yet to let the operators, as whole,
out even. The well of La Count &
Vallilee on the Short lot, 200 feet south
west of the big Sauters No. 8,
reached the fifth sand at o'clock
Saturday morning and started off at 80 bar
rels an hour. 1t kept between so and 90
barrels an hour for some time, and then
dropped down to 55. 1t had only broken
the she'll of the rock, but to-day it will be
drilled several feet at least into the sand
The Royal Gas Company's No. 8 Ed Nc
Donald is five feet in the fifth sand and
showing light. Weixel & Co., on the
Smith lot, expect to get the sand some time
to-day. Garland & Hayes, on the Miller
farm, are on top of the Gordon sand. Van
kirk & Co., on the GLADDEN. in the western
edge of the town, are down about ], 900 feet.
Roland & Co., on the McLain lot, will put
in their first string of casing to-day. Cook
O IL 1af he
station, are not in the Gordon sand
as reported, but expect to reach
it to-day. Hays s. Co.'S No. 2, on the
Miller, is down about 900 feet. Christie 81
Co. on the Richards are 1000 feet deep.
Pew s. Emerson on the S. S. Johns prop
erty should be in the last of this week.
Along the Ohio.
CoRAoPoLIs-W. P. Black is down 200
feet on the C. A Watson lot. The Forest
Oil Company's No. 3 Snowliete is spudding.
The same company has rig up for its No.
Meeks, and is building rig for No. on
the Gordon. The Coraopolis Oil Company
is down ], 800 feet on the f. n. Watson lot.
The Forest Oil Company is down 200 feet in
its Cooper No. 8, and $50 feet in its Getty
No. s.
Struck the Dust.
HAYsvILLE-Queen & Co.'S No. 8, on
the Rhodes farm, is in and dry.
Other Dry Sands.
MURDoCKsvILLE-The Forest Oil Com
pany's wildcat, in advance to the southeast
of the Murdocksville field, is completed and
drv. The same company will drill a test
we'll on the Alexander Morrow farm, west
of this field They shot their well on the
William Morrow farm Saturday, and it is
doing about 60 barrels day. The Forest
Oil Company is also drilling wildcat 81
miles from Fishpot, Beaver county, which
is dry in the third sand, but will be drilled
on down to the fourth and fifth sands. 1t is
the third dry hole which has been put down
in the vicinity of Fishpot
Win Not Be a Gusher.
MooN-Bradley & Murphy got the sand
Saturday In their No; 2 on the William
Springer 1t will make 25 or 30-barrel
well. Their No. 8, P. 81. Stevenson, is
down about 100 feet
The Cowan Flowing.
MCCURDY-The well of Waterhouse &
Co., on the Cowan farm, has been packed
and is flowing about 80 barrels a day.
Mellon & Wilson's No. 8, on the
Scott farm, has not yet reached the
sand as was reported but is expected in to-
day, and Black, Emerson & Guffey's Nos.
and on the Aiken farm, just west of the
Annie Adams well of Guffey & Galley,
should both get the sand to-day. R. G.
Gillespie & Co. Nos. 6 and Z on the Jane
Riddle, and their No. on the Hall are due
about Thursday.
Supposed to Be Through.
PERRYsvILLE-The Crown Oil Com-
pany's well on tho Redpath farm, west of
this place, is thought to be through the
sand. There is some oil in the hole, which
comes from the Brush creek sand.
Some New Wells.
BRUSH CREEK-The Duff Oil Company
has started to drill its No. on the Duff
farm The Forest Oil Company is drilling
on the Charleston farm, three miles north Of
Legionsville.
Almost Down.
CooPERSTowN-W.E E. Griffith expects to |
get the Hundred Foot to-day in his well on |
the Bowser farm, and will strike the pay
Wednesday.
Two West Virginia Wells. |
MANNINGToN-The Flaggy Meadow Oil |
Company's No. 1, on the Snoderly farm, 21& |
miles southwest of Warrington, was re- |
ported to have reached the Big Injun Satur- |
day and started off at ten barrels an hour |
with prospects of an improvement. The
South Penn Oil Company's No l, on the !
Parish farm, is in and good for 800 barrels a |