Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-21
OIL REGION FARMERS
0yerreaching Themselves in Demand
ING ExOrbitant Prices.
WHICH ARE PROMPTLY REFUSED.
How the Recent Pennsylvania GusherS
Are Holding Up.
A NEW WILDCAT WE'LL THAT LOOKS DRY

The big wells of the last few days were
still putting out hundreds of barrels OF oil
yesterday, although they had fallen off con-
siderRbly In the McCurdy field the opera
tors who have wells drilling near the gush-
2 ers are pounding them down as fast as pos
sible in order to get into the rock before the
oil has been all drained out. There are
plenty of lease hunters in the woods, but
the farmers have suddenly advanced their
Land to enormous figures. Bonuses of 500
and $50 an acre with an eighth royalty are
demanded at present, but promptly refused
In the Wildwood field the operators have
apparently received new injection of en-
ergy and are at work all over the field
Down at McCurdy.
McCuRpr-The Fisher Oil Company, Hacl1et
& Shirley's No. 3, on the W. E. Riddle farm,
went OF TO 40 barrels an hour yesterday
morning. 1t was then agitated and was in
creased to 60 barrels an hour, but subse-
quently fell off to about 40 Their No. l,
on the same piece, is making 200
barrels day. They have the casing
915 S1d wifi Gf 6nS M dbr nioGle one it NE asaa
in a few days. Gillespie & Co.'s No. 4, on the
Jane Riddle, is making about 80 barrels an
hour. They have located their No. north
east of their No. 4, and will locate their No:
6 this week. Wilson & Wilson's graveyard
well is doing about As barrels day. The
tools were gotten out of J. NJ. Guffey & NJ,
Murphy's Kerr No. . yesterday morning, and
it will probably reach the sand to-day.
The Woodland Oil COmpany's Adams No. /
is doing 20 barrels an hour. They have
pulled the casing out of their Edmundson
farm well and abandoned it.
In the Wildwood Field.
WILDwooD-Black & Waterhouse shot their
old well on the Whitesell farm in the north
cast near the Augusta Oil Company s gusheTi
and it responded by starting off at the rate
of 45 barrels an hour. Last evening it had
dropped to about 25 barrels an hour 1t has
already produced about $1,000 barrels of oil
The Augusta oil CompanyS Whitesell No 8
was making 30 barrels an hour yesterday
morning. The Roth Oil COmpany's L. z.
PEBBLES No. is through the sand and
good for 25 barrels a day. The Griffith
4 Forest Oil Company's Rmgenheisen No.
was reported last night to be making 20
barrels an hour j. NJ. Guffey and Guffej- Il
Queens well, on the LintZ, is II feet in the
sand and has made several small flows. 1t is
full of oil, but has not enough gas to empty
itself Black Il Emerson, on the Murray
heirs farm, was shot yesterday.
The Smith Farm Oil Companys No 10 is
eight feet in the sand and showing. Their
No. II is down l,G00 feet The Roth Oil Com
pany's Campbell No. got the sand, and is
not showing for much as a well. The same
cOmpanys c. o. Smith farm well is on top
OF the sand.
New MurdocksviIle Work.
MURDocKsvLLE-Pitts parties have
leased 500 acres near this place. and have
commenced well on the Boyd farm. 1t is
in the center of their lease.
Beaver Wildcat.
COOKS FERRY-A wildcat which Pittsburg-
ers have been drilling below here, and in ad-
vance of the Hoo1stown developments, has
been shut down on account of the scarcity
OF water.
Dry-LooIking Test Well.
WAsHNGToN-The Woodland Oil Company,
of Pittsburg, is drilling a well on the Irwin
farm, about midway between the Washing
ton and Taylorstown pools. 1t is thought
the Gordon and dry test will be drilled
through the fourth and fifth sands.>
Hundred-Foot Activity.
PErERsvuLE-Guckert & Steele have To-
Gated three new wells on the Humphrey
farm, one on the Nesbit, one on the Duncan
and one on the Bolton. They may drill
some of their old wells from the hundred
foot to the third sand.
Near the Oldest Well.
HITE STATIoN-A rig is being built about
two miles northwelt of this place and mile
and a quarter west OF the Kier well, which
was drilled about 1853, and is the Oldest oil
well in the United States. 1t will be drilled
by Plttsburg parties. OLIVIA found in the
hier well, and for years was sold for
medicinal purposes only.
Hope for Oil Yet.
HARMARsvILLE-The well which IS being
drilled on the James McRoberts farm, near
here, is down 1000 feet. 1t VIII be drilled
2,4OOfeet. 1t was an eight-Earrel well in the
hundred-foot.
\ meeting of the PRODUCERS Protective
Association was held in Pittsburg last night.
Personal.
s. s. Wi.svn, of the oil producing firm of
Mellon s. Co., has returned from a trip
through Texas and Louisiana with his
family.
NJ. Murphy, the well-lnown producer, who
makes his home in Philadelphia, came over
TO PittSbuTg yesterday to look after some of
his interests in Allegheny county fields.
Joseph Post, an old-time producer, who is
now interested at Wildwood, returned to his
home, in Salem, O., last night. He bought a
farm at Salem several years ago and when
not in the guise of producer he is disguised
as a farmer. The latter garb, he says, he
prefers.