Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30

that was talked about yesterday morning
was the big well on the Bell farm, at Nc
Curdy, owned by the Orion Oh
Company. The operators were all
excited and the reports which
foated around promiscuously placed
the production of the well anywhere from
100 to 175 barrels an hour. Some credence
was given to the latter report from the fact
that the well had filled 250-barrel tank in
an hour and quarter, as reported in THE
DISPATCH yesterday morning. Last even.
ing it was reported to be doing
variation, and with a little agitation it il
believed it will almost double its produc.
tion. The well on the Andrews farm al
McCurdy, which was thought to be due this
week, will not be in before next Friday. II
is one of the extreme northeast wells, and
important in defining the territory in that
direction. The Fisher Oil Company Hackett
& Shirley well, on the w. 4. Riddle lot, is
making about 325 barrels day.
Another Big Oil Well.
WnDwooD-The Augusta Oil Company
and Bowman well No. 2 on the Whitesell
farm in the northeast, which has been doing
nearly 400 barrels a day for the last ten
days, was drilled deeper yesterday morning,
and is flowing at the rate of loo
barrels a day. Their Nos. 8 and
on the same farm are ready to
case. The Forst & Greenlee No. /, on the
Hazlett farm, was doing about Is barrels an
hour last night, and theis No 2, on the AL
ston, was doing ten barrels an hour. The
Kretzer No. 2 of Guffey & Queen will not
reach the pay before Monday morning. The
Jenny farm well of S. P. Boyer s. Co. had
not made any flows at a late hour yesterday
afternoon.
The Moon Field.
MooN-The Jeffrey Oil Company's No 1,
on the Stewart farm, struck the second pay
yesterday and will make 20-barrel we'll.
The Hervey Oil Company's No. 3, on the
McCutcheon, is in the sand, and is showing
for good well. 1t is located 500 feet north
east of the McCutcheon No. L. Bradley &
Murphy's well, on the P. S. Stevenson farm,
is in the sand, and will make % or 30 bar
rel we'll 1t is located near Moon postofice.
in the sand, and making II barrels an hour.
1t is In the northeast portion of the field.
In the Coraopolis District
CoRAoPoLS-Black g. Emerson are down
200 feet in their Ritter No. and have a rig
completed for No. s. They have located
No. on the same farm. Mellon & Co. S
No. Cassiday is in the sand.
Work at Groveton.
GRovEToN-Gillespie Brothers well on
the Douglass farm is dry in the 100-foot,
and will be drilled to the fourth sand. The
Fort Pitt Gas Company is ready to drill on
the Burns farm.
Butler County Pools.
ROUGH RUN-The Empire Oil Company
has located well on the Phillip Sypher
farm, between the old Midnight and Day
light mysteries.
WEST SUNBURY-Roy, Boggs & Curtis
are down 500 feet in their well on the A. G.
Meals farm, ten miles northeast of Butler
and one mile south of the old Leckey well,
which is showing good for six barrels day.
Pittsburg parties are drilling two miles
southwest of the Meals farm, half way
between Jamison and Euclid stations, on
the Shenango Railroad.
That Beaver Wildcat.
BEAvER-The Augusta Oil Company's
wildcat well, northwest of Hookstown and
near the Ohio river, is doing six or seven
barrels a day. The owners believe they
have discovered new pool, and on account
Of the shallow depth are certain that they
will strike it rich.
In Butler County.
BUTLER-J. NJ. Patterson s. Co. are
drilling on the Albert Graham farm in ad
vance of developments in the Southwest
Foot. The Forest Oil Company's
we'll on the George Helsher farm is making
20 barrels day in the Hundred Foot.
Oil Property Leased. ~
W. L. Mellon s. Co. have leased from
Bros, of Midway, their 250-acre
farm southwest of Mcdonald Mellon &
Co. have also taken 75 acres adjoining, be-
longing to the McCarthys.
A Big Greene County Well
WAYNEsBURG-The Gordon sand has
been tapped on the farm of Samuel Harvey,
near Harveys Postoffice, Greene county.
The oil spurted over the top of the derrick
at the rate of l, 900 barrels day. The well
was plugged until they could connect pipes
with tank that had been erected Yesterday
afternoon. Another tank is being built
The we'll is not far from the Southwest Com
pany' S pipe lines. Thirty new wells will be
commenced in the vicinity of Harveys
within 80 days; two other wells are going
down at present. The lease was taken for a
company of capitalists of which. John
Haines, deceased, was one.