Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-16
AN IRREPRESSIBLE FIELD.
WILDWOOD Is AGAIN AT THE FRONT
WITH AN OIL GUSHER.
BarnsdaIl g. Gillespie the Fortunate Drill
ers-News From the Other Fields of the
Usual Small Interest-A Good Well at
Coraopolis-Field News.

The Wildwood field is at the front again
to-day with gusher of magnificent proper
tions The constant occurrence of gushers in
this quarter is no longer matter OF sur
prise or wonderment. The failure to de.
velop these monsters is what is looked and
hoped for by the talent on the outside. The
producer. who is waiting anxiously to catch the
first signs of an advancing market, signs as he
sees the report from this field.
Barnsdall & Gillespie tapped the first pay in
their No. z, on the kress farm, last evening
when it started to flow at the rate of 20 inches
an hour. They shut down and to-day have
been moving the boiler. It is thought that
with only few more strokes of the drill it will
break loose with the force that has been char
acteristic of its predecessors on this farm.
Greenlee 4 Forst expect to reach the sand in
their No. 2, on the McGeagh six acres,
next Saturday, and in their No. l., on
will reach the sand in their No. ], on the Widow
Runga farm, Saturday.
The Roth Oil Company are drilling at l.3OC
feet in their No. on the Kyle farm Griffith
with their Nos and on the Ringheisen farm.
The Dwyer and Beers Oil Company have started
up on the August Kile farm. and are ready to
spud on the Peter Kohlber farm.
At Wittmer's station Staley q Co. are drilling
important test They are down 800 feet.
North OF Wildwood they have pulled the
tubing at the Bowman gasser, and will start the
drill to bouncing IN the morning. Five hum
dred feet north of this well, on the Pittsburg
and Western lot, Kennedy & Co. are In the
30-foot. but are drilling out piece of iron,
Christie & Co. are down 500 feet on the Susan
Murray farm.
Griffith q Miller are rigging up their wild
cat the Hill farm, and will start it to
a success they will drill deeper. The Smith
Farm Oil Company are spudding at their Nos.
s and g. The Forest Oil Company shot their
No. on the Young farm this evening. The
result was not learned.
There are those who still have faith in the
northeast of the Wildwood field Westerman
& Co. will drill a test on the Robert Walters
farm, and Farmer Ewalt and others will try
rig up.
Dry Hole at Jefferson Center.
JEFFERSON CENTER-Frazier, Myers Scott
drilled their test well, on the TillIe Logan farm
through the sand, and it is dry. The late
ventures in this field have not brought very
heavy returns.
The Progress of Glade Run Wells.
GLADE RUN-Webber & Co.. on the Waters
farm, are so feet in the hundred-foot and have
a good show for a well. Lupher Brothers on
on the Martin farm, are down l 200 feet. Hayes
d Craig have finished their No. on
the Clark farm, and will shoot tomorrow.
One Good Well at Harmony.
HARMoNY-From the present outlook it
would not seem that the field will prove a bear
on the market There will probably be a sud-
den advance in the price of qulnine. Doctors
Cunningham and Redmon well, on the Zeigler
farm, is through the sand and dry. Brackney
Larkin G. Co, on the A. Zeigler farm. is Is feet
in the 1Q0-foot with light show Of oil. Youn-
kins & Co., on the Harper lot, is showing Light.
Cunningham & Co., on the Kreuzer lot. Is a
good well. 1t seems to have drawn the
oil from the Niece well, on the Kieffer lot.
located so feet south.
Two Coraopolis Ventures.
CoRAoPoLIs-Coast & Sons have finished a
ten-barrel well on the Cooper farm Emerson
& Black are starting a rig on the Suowhite
farm, their recent purchase from the Augusta
Oil Company. II. Nc,