Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-10

Bainsdall & Gillespie No. II, Kress, got in Sun
| day, and has not started up again to drill.
After six weeks fishing in No. 8, same farm.
the tools have been taken out. Guffey q
tonight, with no oil. Forst & Greenlee COM
menced spudding to-day in Nos. . and s, Aston.
and Evans, Mandevlle & Co. will start the
drill in the morning at No. ?, Wright farm.
The Forest Oil Company and @ Queene & Cn. ex-
pect the sand in their No. Runga in about a
week. The Smith Farm OIL Company's No. s is
on top of the sand, and is making nine inches an
| hour tonight. The Christie well on the Nancy
| Gibson farm, a mile north of Wildwood sta
tion, is reported 80 feet in the sand without any
| oil. Ireland & Hughes tubed their Bryant farm
| well to-day.
Much Ado About Nothing.
ELIzABETH-A correspondent from Eliza
beth writes THE DISPATCH as follows con-
cerning the Snee & Munhall well: 81 see some
one has succeeded In circulating a cock-and-
bull story of the great possibilities of another
big oil field near Elizabeth, about % miles south.
west of Pittsburg In Lincoln township, and. as
usual, Pitrsburg morning paper makes a big
thing out of nothing. The well in question is
| owned by Snee & Munhall. and located on the
Edmondson farm. From the best information
at hand, it is being worked as mystery. The
| attempted boom in this territory on the
| strength OF mystlhed well, and that, too, In
| territory which has been pretty thoroughly
tested and condemned, must fall a great way
short of the mark.
"a well-informed oil man came into Elizabeth
from the well to-day, and said to your cores
pondent, there was from l50 to 200 feet of oil in
| the hole and added, he did not know whether
it came from the sand in the well or whether it
was dumped into the hole There is no excite
ment whatever here over the reported ind.
and the majority of operators are too well
posted on this territory to be so easily msled,
This country has been drilledLover by the
Elizabeth Heat and Light Company Boyd q
Gumbert and McKeesport parties. The
Brewey Company and Gumbert also drilled
well at Coal Bluff, one ana half miles south
west of the Snee MuEhall well. In nearly all
of these ventures little oil and gas were
found, but not enough of either to pay. The
opinion of the best posted oil men is that II the
snee & Munball well should ever develop into
paying venture it will not only be a surprise.
but will break all previous records of the third
sand formation. Unless something more tangi-
BILE is developed from the mystery there can be
no cause tor alarm in the shape OF market
breaker"
Jacks Run a Flash in the Pan.
JACKS RUN-But little nowadays is heard Of
Jacks Run. At one time it gave some promise
of developing into an important pool, but it
finally turned out fash in the pan, and can
hardly be counted among the producing fields of
Allegheny county, If a comparison is drawn
with Wildwood. Coraopolis or McCurdy. How
ever, some good wells have been found here,
but their careers as good producers were only
transitory, and the territory has never shown
any staying qualities At present there is only
one well drilling In the field, No.2 Hebert & Co.,
on the Hill farm, which has reached depth of
/ 200 feet.
Mccormick Co. are putting in the casing in
their No. !, Shaw farm, after the usual process
of ramming down. The old wells, which We're
shot and cleaned out last month, considerably
increasing their production, have now fallen
OH and assumed their normal condition, and
produce on an average OF from to Is barrels a
day.
Thayer & Co.'s boiler house. on the Burger
,
was at supper and burned to the ground. How
the nre originated no one knows. This same
company have decided to administer another
dose OF high explosive to their No. Burger.
which will temporarily increase its produc-
tion.
The New Cranberry Field.
EVANS CITY-The Cranberry oil field, which
Wabl. Bishop & Co. opened lately by their wild
cat venture on the Dambach farm, is assuming
quite lively appearance. Operators and
farmers are producing convincing arguments,
the latter as usual where oil is found, for large
bonus the former to get the land on reasonable
terms. Beers, Mckee & Eichert have leased a
large tract of land laying between the Dam
bach farm and the Dutill heirs property.
There has been quite a production on the latter
farm for several years. 1t will be thoroughly
tested as they have already two rigs up, one on |
the William Garvin farm and one on the
Emmell, and will be drilling in few days. |
Lentz and Muhlbrowner are building rig on !!
Lne DeuJdInin NdTNin ldrH, anu SoDert AeF0 |
Co. have a rig completed on the Coovert farm. |
Mellon g. Co.'s Good New Well.
BAKERsTowN-J. c. Millison & Co. struck a |
yood well Saturday afternoon on the Patton |
farm. The venture started off at l3U barrels a |
lay. but during Sunday came down peg or |
two. The well is not in order. but will be soon |
set right and drilled on. By the last of this |
week or the first OF next several wells are due.
A Mistake in the Depth.
McCURDY-The Mellon & Galley well, on |
he James Riddle farm, was measured to-day
md was found to be not as deep as reported
Sunday night. Mr.. Sparks, one of the owners,
'ad at o'clock tonight the well was only one
bit in the sand and as yet had found no oil.
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