Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-04

115; Forest Oil Compauy's Nos. 1 and 2
Wright, 25; Davis & Browns No. l. 10;
No 9, 18; Thompson & Co. g No. /, Norm
longrig, IS: Brenneman & Co. s No. 1 I'll
mont. 90: Brown & Co.'s No. i Montgom-
cry, 1S; Forest Oil Company'sNo Ewing,
18; Forest Oil Company's No. James Nc
Gregor, 20; Hustler, Davis & Co. IS No. l
Boyce, 40; Patterson & Jones' No 2
Shaffer, 60; Liberty Oil Co.'S No. 1 Des-
camp, 1S. The production of the field
yesterday was estimated at $1,000 barrels.
The stock in the field was increased from
134, 900 barrels to 154, 900. The runs from
Mcdonald Wednesday were 81, ,72S2 29 bar
rels. Outside of Mcdonald the Southwest
Pennsylvania Pipe Line runs were 8, ,5S8 81,
making a total of 81, 316 65 barrels. Ma
tional Transit runs were 45, 40 Oh barrels;
shipments, 80. 847.49. Macksburg runs were
SSH. Eureka runs, 1874. 26; shipments,
1,6S0.25. Southern Pipe Line shipments,
14,O13 13 barrels.
Good Oil in Canada.
SHERKsTowN, ONT, Dec. soil was
found to-day for the first time in q white sand
within the Dominion. The new discovery,
which is attracting considerable attention,
was discovered by the Provincial Natural
Gas and Fuel Company, in one of its expert
being drilled ostensibly for gas. The well is
not gusher of the Mcdonald field class, but
the sensation which it creates in the SCI
entifc mind is even more profound than
the discovery of gusher in the
Mcdonald field, where such are to be e1-
pected. The oil is dark green in color,
45 gravity and possesses all the character
istic features of Pennsylvania oil. 1t is the
first and only oil found in Canada which is
free from the peculiar taint and malodors of
oil produced from limestone rocks. This
oil is found in the Medina at depth of
$50 feet; it is the first time in the his
tory of the business in which the oc-
currence of oil in this horizon has been
top, and for considerable distance through
it, the rock is reddish hue; changing to
gray toward the bottom; the oil was found
in the gray sand. 1t marks new era in
oil development, which is of interest main
ly to the Dominion, since this rock lies on
or very near the surface, at the border line
between Empress Vic's domains and those
of Uncle Sam. The strategraphical posi-
tion of the Medina rock is very imper-
fectly understood by oil men on both
sides of the line; on this, because in the
oil fields proper, the wells start, as it
were in the shales underlying the Medina
rock; on the other, the established oil bear
ing rocks overlie the Medina The Lima
equivalent, which is produced at Petrolea,
commands 81 35 a barrel at the wells. The
same oil in the States is freely offered at 3Oc
Pennsylvania oil which is in universal de-
maud here, is subject to duty of between
7c and &c gallon. This oil, which is equal
to the best Pennsvlvania product, will
command from 50 to 50 so per barrel at the
wells. The credit for this discovery is due
to the intelligent effort of Superintendent E.
Coste, of the Provincial Natural Gas Com
pany. Mr.. Coste is graduate of the
School of Mines and Mining of Paris,
member Of the Dominion Geological Staff
and one of the brightest and most enter
prising geologists of Canada. He located
the famous gas fields in this district, and
pronounced upon the value of the territory
before we'll had been drilled. He said
oil would likewise be found on one flank
or the other of the gas field, basing the
statement on geological interference. This
well was located by him to test the accnr-
in it but the professor, and his confidence
never wavered. Some 20 wells have been
drilled in this district through and beyond
the Medina rock without finding oil in this
horizon. The gas found in merchantable
quantities here comes from the Trenton
rock, LOO feet below the Medina.
The oil well is located at a considerable
distance to one side of the gas wells, and
DR.. Coste ventures the prediction that an
oil field of considerable area will be found
in the vicinity. The first we'll has every
outward indication of being 25-barrel
producer. 1t made four strong flows to-day.
Personal.
William C. Allison, the, President of the
Allison Manufacturing Company, of Phila-
delphia, died November 80 after very brief
illness. The company of which Mr. Allison
was the originator, made the we'll known
Allison tubing and casing which has been
in use in the oil country for many years.
Many of the older oil operators were per-
sonally acquainted with the deceased, and
among the oil well supply manufacturers he
had many close friends.
Thomas w. Phillips, the popular Butler
county operator, who has made and lost
several fortunes in that tickle field to which
he still clings, was at the Hotel Duquesne
last evening. He resides in New Castle
It is very seldom that Mr.. Phillips ven
lures beyond the confines of Butler county
in his search for petroleum.
2. c. Boyle, the well-known publisher of
the Oil City Derrick, the Bradford Era and
Toledo Commercial. passed through Pittsburg
last evening on his way to Toledo from Oil
City.
Ernest Howard Flower died at his home,
at Coon Run, Elk county, last Sunday, and
was buried at Titusville yesterday. He
had been an oil we'll contractor since 1870,
and is said to have drilled the first we'll in
Bradford, located on Corydon street, in that
city. He had been in the employ of the
Salem Oil Company and the Barnesdall Oil
Company for many years. The deceased
had resided in Bradford, Titusville, Big
Shanty and Coon. He was veteran of the
war, serving in the famous ''Bucktail' reg
iment. He was At years old