Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-25
THE MOORHEAD WELL
Is Showing From Forty to Fifty Bar
rels.a Day in the Gordon.
HOW IT LINES UP WITH OTHERS.
Wallace No. 2 Taps the Fifth and Starts
Off at 100 Barrels an Hour.
REVIEW OF THE WORK IN THE FIELD

The we'll which by long odds has been at
operators for several days is on the w. b
Moofhead farm, and is located about mile
west of south from Mcdonald station. Il
belongs to the Venture Oil Company,
which is the producing end of the Wheel
ing Gas Company. 1t has been reported al
various times as being in the Gordon sand
and the reports from it have been
unreliable. Yesterday morning THF
DISPATCH stated that it would make about
two barrels an hour from the Gordon sand
and this has been definitely ascertained to
be its proper rating. The we'll was visited
by number of experienced oil men yester.
day who all placed it as good for from 40 to
90 barrels day. 1t was not through the
Gordon fand Yesterday, but is being drilled
sive proof that there is oil to the
south and southwest of Mcdonald,
and it is in that territory that active opera
tions NAV be looked for when the McDon-
aid field has been thoroughly drilled over.
What makes the Moorhead well so i'm
portant is the fact that it is the only well
between Mcdonald station and Venice, two
miles farther south, which has yet been
drilled to the Gordon sand.
How It Lines Up.
The well lines up with the fifth sand
wells near Med Donald station, the Nevey No.
1, the Miller No. of Garland & Hays,
and the Elliott No. of Guffey, Murphy
& Galley. BY lining up farther east
it covers the Rend we'll, the Glenn farm
wells and Mathews No. 1. For this reason
the owners believe that they may strike an
extension of one of these fifth sand belts, and
as there is nothing between the Moorhead
and the Rend, or the former and the fifth
sanders at Mcdonald station the chances
are good for getting something in the fifth
sand. If it shows for even a paying well
there will doubtless be dozen others started
around it within week.
A short distance west of the Moorhead,
Greenlee & Forst are down l. 500 feet on
the j. r. GLADDEN. farm. They expect to
get the Gordon sand next week. McManus
Il Co. on the Richard GLADDEN. farm, east of
the Moorhead, are down 1, 100 feet. These
two wells should definitely outline the
value of the territory on either side of the
Moorhead. The Royal Gas Company's No.
l on the Moore farm at Venice has not
been drilled any since last week, and is
still long distance from the fifth. They are
ready to drill at their Nos. 2 and 8 on the
Moore and at No. on the Patterson farm.
These wells are being put down with the ex-
pectation of getting gassers. The Pitts
burg Oil Company's well on the Reed farm
is still full of salt water, which, one of the
owners stated yesterday, came from the
stray above the Gordon sand. The salt
water will probably be cased off this week,
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rapidly as possible. Mellon & Co. will
the McCartv farm early next week.
Another Rig Fifth Sander.
The Oakdale Oil Company's No on the
Wallace farm, located between the Baldwin
and the Elliott farms, finally reached the
fifth sand at an early hour yesterday morn
ing, and almost as soon as the bit broke
through the shell the well began to produce
at the rate of 100 barrels an hour. 1t was
still keeping up this pace at late hour
yesterday afternoon and is showing for one
reported to be only few inches
in the sand This well is located
about 900 feet southwest of No / Wallace,
which is still doing over 100 barrels an
hour No. 8 on the same farm was only a
few feet above the fifth yesterday afternoon
and they expected to reach the pay some
time last evening The No. Wallace, be-
longing to the same company, is down 2, 200
feet, and should be completed this week.
Wallace No. 5, is drilling at 800 feet The
Oakdale Oil Company has enough faith in
this farm to risk the drilling of six more
wells, and already the rigs have been COM
pleted for Nos. 6, Z, 8, 9, 10 and II. They
are all located on the southwest end of the
farm, and just east of the Elliott, Morgan
heirs and Sam Sturgeon farms. These will
all be rigged up this week and spudding by
the first of next. The Oakdale Oil Com
panv's No. 2, on the Morgan heirs farm, is
down 2, $50 feet, and will probably be fin
ished up this week. Their No. 3, on the
same property, is down 1, 465 feet, and No.
4, 100 feet The No. 3, on the Sturgeon
heirs farm, also leased by the Oakdale Oil
Company, is drilling at 1, 100 feet; No. at
700; No. 5 at $50, and No. 6 is being
rugged up.
Progress OF Other Wells.
Gufey, Murphy & Galey's No. 4, on the
Elliott farm, is down 9, 100 feet, and should
be compelled the last of this or the first of
next week. The same parties No, 5 on the
6 is down about l, $50 feet; and No Z. which
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725 feet deep Guffey, Murphy & Galley
joining the Elliott on the east
under lease. They have completed
two good wells on it, and are drilling
six more. No. on this farm is down 1000
feet, and will get the Gordon this week.
No follows with depth of 1,050 feet, and
the others are between that and 200 feet in
depth. The Forest Oil Company has started
to drill No. 2 on the J. M. Glenn farm,
which joins the Wallace on the east, and
they have a rig up for No. 8. The same
company's No on the Robert Glenn farm
is down about 600 feet, and their No. 2 on
the Eta Glenn farm is spudding.
The Forest expects to complete its
No. z on the Shaffer farm
in southwest McCurdy to-day. They have
another on the same farm, No. 8, which is
due to get the fifth sand this week, while
Nos. and 10 on the Shaffer should get the
pay in the fifth early next week. The No.
/ James McGregor, of the Forest Oil Com
pany, should also be in the fifth sand before
next Sunday. w. L. Mellon & Co. Is No 4
on the Neeley farm was on top of the fifth
sand last night, and will be drilled into the
pay to-day. This is the only we'll in the
field which is producing any oil
from the sand. 1t has been making about
so barrels day from the above stratum.
Hoffman & Coz No 8, on the Moore farm,
also in Southwest McCurdy, is down about
400 feet.
- Back of Oakdale.
There are several wells back of Oakdale
which are slowly but surely reaching the
point when their venturesome owners will
know whether they are the proud possessors
Of gushers or only mediocre producers. The
Oil Company's No. 2, on the
Gamble farm, was drilling in the
sand yesterday morning, but at
noon had not reached the nav.
Forst g. Greenlee have finished up their
Nos. 2 and on the Gamble farm. No. 2 is