Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-24
Wildwood Disappointed.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.l
WILDWOOD, April 23.-The Heidleberge
well, on the southwest line so far is a sad dis
appointment, and the Indications tonight are
by DO means encouraging. The well is lS feet
in the sand, with no improvement, and unless
its owners soon fad better digging it would
seem that an extension of the great southwest
pool is al an end.
Evans, Vaudeville & Co.'s No. Marks is
through the fourth sand, but found nothing of
very encouraging nature. However, they will
shoot the well tomorrow in the third sand,
where they have some hopes of making a small
producer out Of the venture. The tools have
been taken out of the Rohlbar well. The Peep-
bles well has declined 20 three inches which is
only one-haf what the well did when first
struck.
The Standards Biggest Rival.
FINDLAY-An interesting contest is being
waged between the Standard and Manhattan
Oil Companies for the control of the Ohio oil
field. The Manhattan is the most powerful in
dependent company operating in the field, and
what makes the fight more bitter is the fact that
the Manhattan is composed of the same men
who year ago sold TO the Standard the Lima
Oh Company for s., ,000 000 and then at once re-
invested the money in new oil territory. The
Standard has commenced selling Ohio oil for
use as fuel at 20 cents barrel delivered.
In Titusville, Pittsburg and other Pennsyl-
vania cities, and in New York and New Eng
land, 20 cents IS the rate made, although il had
heretofore been selling a. 60 to rs. The price
at the tanks here is 80 cents. The Manhattan
and the other independent companies in the
field here are beginning TO feel the effects Of
the cut seriously.
Old Butler to the Rear.
BUTLER-In no section of the old banner
county is there any news out of the ordinary.
Unless Butler should soon rise up in her old
time dignity and bring forth another gusher
she will be relegated to the rear. The IOO-foot
is fast declining, and a month hence will show
most wonderful decline in the production
The county is dotted over with small pools with
limited producers, which in the aggregate cost
more to produce the oil than is ever realized
out of the stuff.
Figures OF Bakerstown's Production.
BAKERsTowN-The well on the W. ]. Can
ming farm, owned bv the Natural Gas Com
pany, and finished and reported dry some time
last January. has recently been shot and
cleaned out, and is now making 12 barrels a
day. In this pool there have been completed
six wells and one dry hole the present month
with daily production of $50 barrels. At
present there are four wells being drilled and
but two rigs up.
The Work at Little Creek.
LITTLE CREEK-On the Cable farm, Word &
Young nave a well 30 feet in the IOO-foot, but it
is thought they are not deep enough in the sand
to find the pay. Two wells on the John Dam
bach farm we're shot Yesterday. which will
make ordinary bumpers for this locality. One
belongs to the Forest OIL Company, and the
other is owned by Schlegel. No. Cable, Pat
terson & Co., is making Is barrels a day.
McCurdy's New Gusher Declining.
MccURDY-Patterson q Jones' No. 6 Nc
Curdy farm, has declined from rs barrels an
hour yesterday to IS barrels an hour tonight
and in the next "A hours It will unouestiona bly,
show a still further decline. The Fisher Oil
Company's well on the Riddle has dropped to
$50 barrels a day.
The sand Not Yet Found.
CoRAoPoLIs-The Kanawha Oil Company's
ell, on the Onstott farm did not find the sand
tonight as was expected.