Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-16
Was Reached Yesterday Afternoon in
the Mcdonald Oil Field.
THE PRODUCTION $1,000 BARRELS.
Two New Wells Added Their Big Petroleum
Output to the Whole.
PIPE LINE OFFICIALS GREAT WORK

the field would ever reach this poin
has been subject for disput
for many months. Many a hot ant
rabid argument has been held The san
guine ones, the bulls, were pooh-poohed b!
the snarling, growing bears, who looked
every day for sharp decline in the pro
duction and big increase in the price o
oil. Now there will doubtless be hundreds
of '1-told-you-so's spring up and declare
that they knew all along that the felt
would 60 to $4,000 barrels day. There
were many of them in the field yester
'day. Now there are few who
have the tcmeritv to predict that it may
reach Co., 600 or $1,000 barrels day Gen
orally they are ridiculed, but there are some
who believe that with the wells which are
due Within a week the production may go tc
60, OO0. This could not be done unless the
present big wells hold up to something like
their present rate. The belt is widening and
its possibilities are seldom made the
subject of guess. Several upper country
producers visited the field yesterday. After
getting their bearings and the bearings OF
the big wells and the dry holes and small
wells, they were willing to acknowledge
that they knew precious little about the lay
of the oil bearing rock. All theories go for
naught when it comes to locating well in
this territory.
The Big Elliott Well.
There were two leading points of interest
in the field yesterday. One was Guffey,
Murphy 81 Galey's big No. on the Elliott
farm, and the other was w. P. Rend's we'll
at the Laurel Hill coal mines. 1t is believed
that the Elliott well will be as big as any
IL the field. The pay streak in the sand
was reached about o'clock yesterday morn
ing, and from that time until 2 o'clock
Yesterday afternoon, 13 hours, it had filled
one l, 1,200-b barrel tank, and put 500 feet into
another 1,2O0-baT .el tank This was at the
rate of 130 barrels an hour, but shortly be-
fore o'clock yesterday afternoon the drill
was started and it increased its production
to more than $50 barrels an hour. 1t is
only on top of the sand, and the
owners are confident that it will
vet equal the big Mevey well.
1t is located only 400 feet north of east from
the same parties No Elliott, which is
not making over 400 barrels day, and
about 600 feet northeast from Greenlee &
Forst's Mervey Nc. /. The latter we'll was
agitated yesterday morning and its produc-
tion increased to about 800 barrels an hour,
when one of the pumps which is
taking the oil away from the well
broke down and from 90 to IS barrels an
hour was escaping in the afternoon and
going down the run. The most of it, how
ever, was being caught in dam below and
pumped into tanks. The Sam Sturgeon No.
1 of Guffey, Murphy & Co. or the Sturgeon
heirs we'll were not agitated rs contemplated
yesterday on account of tankage. Greenlee
& Forst's No. 3 Mevey, 800 feet west of the
Sam Sturgeon well, is in the Gordon sand,
nj fhair A +ho
tion west of No 8, will get the Gordon this
week.
The Laurel Hill Well.
Colonel w. 2. Rend's well, or his own
property at the Laurel Hill coal mines, half
a mile east of McDoEald, was making be-
tween So and 40 barrels an hour yesterday
afternoon. There were all kinds of rumors
in regard to j. Wednesday evening The
facts, as stated by the owner, were that at
eight feet in the sand they got
nay streak Wednesday morning Yester-
day morning it was drilled deeper and
under agitation went to 60 or 20 barrels an
hour, and then gradually fell off to 40 an
hour. This we'll is big surprise. 1t is a
good big well in the Gordon sand, and also
in the fifth sand. From its location it was
put down at the start as wildcat, and was
generally looked upon as reck-
less venture. Since it came in, how
ever, the tune has changed. The
belt has evidently widened, and is
making track for the east at this point
There are plenty of operators who are
anxious and willing to put down wells
around Rend's we'll if they could only get
the land.s 1t will be rapidly developed,
however, and no great length of time will
be allowed to elapse before the full extent
of the pool in this southern and eastern
direction is known. Hays & Cart
lands No. Miller will not be
drilled in until to-day. The tools are
still stuck in Bowman, Dibert & Co. s we'll
on the Johns lot at the railroad station.
The cable was cut yesterday. and an effort
will be made to spear past the tools to-day.
The Denonian Oil Company's No. 3 Fayall
and their No. / Elliott, both of which are
on top of the fifth sand, had to shut down
yesterday OH account of shortage of water
They will be drilled in to-day. Roland &
Co. S well on the McLair lot is drilling in
the top of the fifth sand which is very hard
and fine. They expect the pay to-day G.
S. Martin & Co. are on top of the fifth and
shut down.
Work of Pipe Line Men.
The striking of big well is always her,
aided throughout the length and breadth of
the land. The people read of it in their
homes, the traveller hears of il on the high
ways and byways, the jolly man, tine sad
man, the talkative man, the taciturn man,
poo poor ali know of it and make
it the subject of their conversations
if the strike happens to be in their own To-
calities. They hear of one or two or dozen
gushe IS, each of which is producing thou
sands of barrels of oil day. They never
stop to think how all of this great quantity
of oil is taken care of and pumped away
from these wells Ofall the fields ever discov-
cred more hustling has been required to
locality. The big wells have been
coming in in groups of three or
four at a time and the pipe line
men have never been SO busy That they
have taken care of as much oil as they have
so far is remarkable in the face of the odds
against which they had to contend. 1t must
first be understood that the National Tran
sit Company closely follows every develop
ment and as soon as it is apparent that
the production will amount to even a
few hundred barrels day lines are laid to
it and the oil pumped away. Last winter
they laid small line to Mcdonald never
that within few months every
available man would be needed to build
pump stations, tanks and pipe lines. Since
the first big wells were struck the pipe line
officials have been on the jump, and it is
only within the last few days that they have
been able to state that they can take all the
oil produced. Several wells have been shut
down on top of the fifth sand at various
times for days until pipe lines could be laid
to them. All that is changed now. The
change has been brought about mainly
throug h the indefatigable General Superin-
tendent OF the National Transit Company,
Glenn I. Braden, who has reached his pres
snt position through sheer energy and hard |