Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-19
WONDERFUL OIL WELL
The Old Mathews Gusher Made a
Fine Squirt When Agitated.
TOTAL OUTPUT CLIMBING UPWARD.
1t Reached $4,000 Parrels Yesterday
Greatest Yet IecOrded.
BIG SALE OF PROPERTY AT WILDWOOD

The production of the Mcdonald oil field
! reached the unprecedented amount of 62, 00O
barrels yesterday. This is an increase of
1000 barrels day since Thursday. Friday
it increased from 80, 900 to $1,000 barrels,
and Saturday it was 5000 barrels. This
enormous output may go as high as
| $4,000 barrels this week, as there are
from 10 to Is wells, located on good lines,
which should be completed within the next
six days They are expected to bring the
production up many thousands of barrels.
| This little field is rapidly climbing to the
point attained by the Bradford wells, al
though it would scarcely be noticed in point
of territory if placed beside its big upper
country neighbor.
The Great Mathews Gusher.
Probably the most remarkable well in the
| field is the No. l on the Mathews farm,
which belongs to Guffey, Murphy, Jennings,
Galloway & Galley. Certain it is that little
else was talked about Saturday by the men
in the oil business. 1t was agitated few
moments Saturday and for the first hour or
two after it was drilled it made 72O
barrels an hour, and then settled down to
450 or 500 barrels. What makes this well
so remarkable is the fact that il was struck
July 49, over three months ago, and since
that time has produced over 300, 900 barrels.
The full capacity of this well has never
been known before. For several
| weeks after it was first struck
it never varied a barrel from 40
barrels an hour. 1t was then considered
the best we'll in the field. Finally they run
the tools in it, and it jumped to 40 barrels
an hour, and maintained this gait for long
period. Becoming bolder the owners de-
cided to give it few more licks with the
tools. Their surprise can be imagined when
its production jumped to 240 barrels an
hour and remained at 225 barrels
for several weeks. 1t had dropped to 200
barrels an hour Saturday, when they agi-
tated it again, and doomed its output to
more than 700 barrels in go minutes. This
great well is located about a mile northwest
of Noblestown. and two miles northeast of
Mcdonald. 1t is on a 45-degree line,
northeast and southwest with the Nc
Curdy field, the Baldwin well, the
Elliott No 3, the big Mevey No. 1 of
Greenlee & Forst, and Hays & Gartland's
Miller farm wells. The production of the
wells in which j. NJ. Guffey and Mr.. Muir
ply are interested amounted yesterday to
more than $4,000 barrels. Havs & Cart
lands No. on the Miller farm came in
Saturday afternoon and is making $50 bar
rels an hour The production of four wells
on this farm, which are located within a
radius of 500 feet, amounts to 10, 800 barrels
q day.
Wells About Finished.
Greenlee & Forst Nos. and on the
Mevey farm are top of the fifth sand
and will be drilled in to-day Guckert &
Steeles No 2 ON the Mevey should be in
the fifth sand this week. George S. Martin
& Co. 8 well on the Heiser lot is through
the fifth and light. 1t was only one loea-
l. IL. T ~
Sauters Martin & Co. IS well ON the
Druart property is through the Gordon
sand and will get the fifth this week. Leg
gett & lawmakers venture on the Tourney
property is due in the fifth before many DAYS.
w. p. Black & Co.'S we'll on the Crooks
lot, which had been shot and was making
$50 barrels day, suddenly broke loose
Saturday, and is putting out % barrels an
hour. There are dozen new rigs going up
in the vicinity of w. P. Rend's well. Black
& Co.'S well on the Miller property, back
of Oakdale, was reported to be ten feet in
the fifth sand last night, and showing small.
MCCURDY-The Forest Oil Company's
No / on the j. N Neeley, and their Walker
farm well, are each drilling in the fifth sand.
Black and Co., on the Phillips farm, are in
the Gordon, and expect the fifth by Wednes- |
day.
Gauges of the Wells.
The following figures show the produc-
tion of the big wells by the hour: Guffey,
Murphy & Co.'S No. 1 Matthews, 425; Bell !
No 1, 100; Bell No. 3 100; Heron No. 1, |
$50: Baldwin No. 1, $50; Elliott No. 1, 100; |
Elliott No. 3, 200; Sam Sturgeon No. l,
$50; Sturgeon heirs, 10; Hays & Gartland's |
No / Miller, 100; Nos. 2 and 8, 200; No. 4,
$50; Forst x Greenlee's No. 1 Mevey, 200; |
Royal Gas Company's NJ. Robb No. 1, 30: |
Devonsian Oil Companys No 1 Elliott, 80; |
No. . Fayall, 2O No. Fayal, 40; Charters |
Oil Company's No. 3, %; w. P. Rend, 35; |
Woodland Oil Company's No. 1 Gamble, |
40; Sauters & Patterson's No. /, 25; w. P. |
Black & Co.'S Crooks lot, 2j.
Sale of Oil Property.
WILDwoOD-Greenlee& 81 Forst have lust |
sold large block of property in this field |
to Riddlesperger Bros, of Warren, Pa, for |
$4,000. The property consists of SO acres
on the Aston farm, on which are five pro-
ducing wells with an aggregate production
of $50 barrels a day; 32 acres on the Daniel
Good farm, with three producers and 80 bar
rels production, and 25 acres on the Hazlett
farm, with one well pumping % barrels
day. The total production is 2O5 barrels,
which makes the average per b rrel for the
property a fraction less than 1914