Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
OVER $4,000 BARRELS.
THE PRODUCTION OF THE SOUTH
WEST POOLS INCREASING.
There Are Many Wells Due This Week
Which Should Be Big Freight
Stopped Between Gregg and Mcdonald

Which Should Be Big - Freight
Stopped Between Gregg and Mcdonald
Important Meeting of Producers.
The coming week will witness big in
crease in the production of the Mcdonald
field unless all lines and theories fail. There
are number of wells which should reach
the fifth sand in the proximity of wells
which have proven bonanzas for their
owners The pipe lines were tax
ing away the oil at the rate of "a LOCO bar
rels day Friday, and Thursday this was up
| to 25 900. And still oil was being lost. Satur-
| day morning a line was broken for five
| hours, ana during the time required to re-
| pair the break the wells gained rapidly,
! and in several instances tanks were
running over. Saturday evening the
| reports showed that unusual efforts
were being put forth by the pipe line people
I as they were then pumping away about l, 800
barrels en- hour or over 81, 600 barrels a day.
| The National Transit is building five tanks
in the field with a capacity of $1,000 barrels
each. Four of them will be located at Gregg
station on the Panhandle. When these are
completed there will be 100000 barrels of
tankage at Mcdonald and Washington. The
work of building these tanks, as well as op-
erations in general, are delayed by the re-
fusal of the Panhandle to accept any freight
for at least a week which is billed for sta
tions between Gregg and Mcdonald, inclu-
slV6. All Oh Jl6 aVdllaOlo SlQlQRS are now
filed with cars, and it is an ilnpossibility to
ship in any more until relief is afforded by
the removal of the cars already there.
Nearing the Last Sand.
McDoNALD-Clark & Bannster's we'll on the
Sauters' property just broke the top of the
fifth sand Saturday and increased its flow
Of l50 barrels from the Gordon to 200 barrels
day and was shut down. 1t will be drilled
into the fifth to-day. 1t is a few hundred feet
northeast OF Sauters & Co.'S lot on the Sau-
ters' property. Shaffer & Co., on the Sau-
ters', between the two wells named, is down
about 400 feet. The Mary Robb well OF the
Royal Gas Company in the northwestern
part of the field was drilled a few
minutes Saturday and increased its
production from 80 to ITO barrels an hour.
The Devonian Oil Companys No. on the
Elliott No on Fayall, and No. on the j.
H. Robb, should reach the fifth the last of
this week W. P. Black & Co.'s No. l on the
Crooks lot, and their No. on the Springer,
are due in the fifth Friday or Saturday.
Roland & Co., on the McLain lot are
almost in the last sand. The Wallace Oil
Company will commence spudding to-day
station. Davis & McClurg are down 1900
feet on the Young lot. Kerner & McClurg
are building rig for their Gold Plate well
on the Blair lot, south of the Miller farm.
GLADDEN. property. Their No ! Mevey is
down LOO feet; No. 2, LOO; No. g. $50: No. 4,
$50; No. O. 1000, and No is drilling at 80 feet.
From the Thirty Foot.
NoRLEsTowN-Guffey, Jennings, Murphy
& Co. are still losing some oil from their No.
], on the Matthew's farm. Their Heron No.
l is drilling at 1870 feet and is making
some oil from the 3Qfoo$. Their No. 2, on
the Heron, is down LOO feet: No. 8 is fishing
ut 100, and No. is drilling at $50 feet. Their
No. Bell is IN the stray above the Gordon
sand. Bell No. 2 is in the l00-foot with some
oil and gas, and Bell No. is also drilling in
the 100-foot Their No. l. on the Matthews
heirs, is down $50 feet.
Work Back of Oakdale.
OAKDALE-Greenlee & Forst's Miller No 2
is 400 feet deep. Their No. l Gamble is down
200 feet; rig is up for Gamble No. 2, and
they are building rig for No. g.
Will Be Drilled in To-Day
McCURDY-HofTman & Co.'S well on the
Moore farm will be drilled into the fifth sand
this morning. 1t is located for good pro-
ducer.
Two Wildwood Wells.
WILDwooD-The Metropolitan Oil Com
pany's No. 8 Kolbar has been shot and in
creased to 800 barrels day. Their No. on
the same farm will be completed early next
week.
Will Discuss the Matter.
An important meeting of the P. p A. will
be held tonight. Among other things they
will take action on paper which is being
circulated in the Southwest Pipe Lines. The
latter asks its patrons to sign the paper
which gives the Southwest lines the power
to transfer the oil now in its own
lines to the National Transit Company
The objection raised by producers is that
the National Transit Company is the Gus
todian of large quantities of Lima oil, and
that the producers would have no guarantee
that tine National Transit Company would
deliver, at the order of the producers, the
same oil which they placed in the National
Transit Company's lines.