Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-30
in probably ten feet when the last reports
were received from it.
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in probably ten feet when the last reports
were received from it.
Near the Paystreak.s
The Oakdale Oil Company's No. 1, on the
rels an hour, with bit stuck on top of the
sand. The No. Wallace of the
same company should be in the
second sand to-day. Their No. Wal
lace is about on top of the Gordon sand.
s. j. Fisher & Co. s well on the slaughter
house lot back of Oakdale is expected to
reach the fifth sand to-day or tomorrow.
The Forest Oil Company's No. 1 on the
Eta Glenn will be in the fifth to-day. No.
1 on the r. w. Glenn, and No. 1 on the
John Med. Glenn were drilling in the Cor
don sand yesterday. They are on the east
ern line, of Developments, and east of
line from the Mathews to the Neevey wells.
The same company's No. on the Heron
was in the Gordon sand yesterday and
making fair showing from that rock.
Dry Hole at McCurdy.
There was dry hole completed in the
McCurdy field yesterday. 1t belonged to
GuffeS, Mellon & Emerson, and was located
on the J. H. Andrews farm, $50 feet east of
the old Annie Adams well. w. L.
Mellon was expecting to reach the
fifth sand last night in his No. 1
on the sMertz, and No 1 on the
Isaac Ewing farm. The rig of Pat
terson & Co. IS No. on the Shaffer farm'in
southwest McCurdy was burned yesterday
afternoon. 1t took fire from gas in the
Hundred foot. Their Shaffer No. is on
top of the fifth sand, and will get the pay
early this morning; Mellon & Gartland, on
the Taylor farm, will get the last sand by
tomorrow w. L. Mellon has 10 other
wells drilling in southwest McCurdy and
two rigs up. He expects to complete
several wells next week. Robbins & Co.,
on the McMichael farm, were almost on top
of the fifth sand last night They expect to
get the pay to-day.
Some Advance Ventures.
VENICE-Guckert & Learn are putting
the first casing in their well on the Reed
farm south of this place. The Royal Gas
Company's well on the Patterson farm is
big gasser in the 30 foot sand. 1t is three
quarters of a mile west of south from
Venice. The Wheeling Gas Company's
venture on the Moore farm is showing both
gas and oil in the so foot sand.
Refinery Story Denied.
There has been a rumor in circulation for
several days among the oil men to the
effect that w. L. Mellon was about to COM
mence the erection of large refinery at
Coraopolis. Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Mel
Ion was asked as to the truth of the story.
He said: 'There is no truth in it so far as it
relates to me. am not going to
build a refinery anywhere Sew
eral days ago, however, some
parties leased ground from meat Coraopolis
on which to build refinery. ] cannot give
you their names. The capacity of the
works will be about 500 barrels, believe.
have no interest in it and am not in
formed concerning the plans of the persons
know whether work has yet been
commenced on it. Mr.. Mellon
was then asked if he was interested
in scheme to build seaboard pipe. "No,
1 am not, he replied. "f saw some re-
ports sent out from Pittsburg several days
ago stating that was interested with Mr..
There is absolutely no foundation for the
report. L know of no surveys being made
by anyone for seaboard line"
1t May Result Fatally.
Walter Gray, the teamster who was buried
in the fire at Mcponald Wednesday night,
is not expected to live. He is badly burned
on the back, and particularly so across his
kidneys. His hands, face and neck are also
in terrible condition. Gray is only %
years of age, and had just invested all of
the money he had in the team
which he tried to save He was
stabling his horses in a small barn near the
well of Black & Co.. on the Charlier lot.
Late Wednesday evening he went into the
stable to clean the horses and carried a
lantern. As soon as he stepped inside the
door the lantern went out. Gray struck a
match to relight it, when an explo-
sion occurred which threw him out
into the stable yard. He was
stunned and bruised, but his first thought
was of his horses, and he rushed into the
barn. The horses, dazed by the explosion
and maddened by the flames, could not be
controlled. Finally Gray was forced to
abandon them when he had one in the door
way and try to save himself. 1t is the i'm
preston among the oil operators that the
stable was filed with gas, which had col
lected from the Black well, and only needed
the match which Gray unwittingly Lit to
cause the disaster. Two other horses per-
ished in the same stable.
Pumping by Hand.
An enterprising young American is lay
ing the foundation for a career as q multi
millionaire at Noblestown. He has secured
an old '250 barrel tank and placed it beside
the brook which flows past the Mathews,
Heron and Bell wells, and which carries
away hundreds of barrels of escaping oil
The young man with the tank has purchased
an ordinary water we'll pump and yester-
day afternoon he was pumping about Is
barrels of oil an hour into the tank from a
little dam which he had built across the
stream.
Gauges of the Wells.
A guage of the big wells in. the field yes
terday showed them to be producing as fol-
lows per hour: Guffey, Murphy, Jennings
& Co. IS No. Mathews, 800 barrels; Her
ron No. 1, $50; Heron No. 2, 20; Heron
No. 4, 260; Bell No. 1, 80; Bell No 2, 15O
Oakdale Oil Company's No. l. Morgan
heirs, 140; No. 1 Baldwin, 130; No. Stur- |
geon heirs, 20; No. Sturgeon heirs, $50.
Guffey, Murphy & Galey's No. 1,
Elliott, 80; No. 2 Elliott, 140; No. 1 Sam
Sturgeon, so. Greenlee & Forst's No. 1 |
Meyey, 175; No. 8 Mevey, 100; No. 4 |
Mevey, 175. Hays s. Garland's No. 1 |
Miller, 80; Nos. and Miller, 100; No
4 Miller, 50. Royal Gas Company's No 1 |
M. Robb, 45. Hoffman & Co. No. Moore,
40. Woodlond Oil Company's No. Gam
BILE, 80. Devonian Oil Company's No. 1 |
Elliott, 450; No. Fayall, 80 Bowman,
Dibert & Co.'s No. 1, 40. w. P. Rend's |
No. 1, 20. Conklin & Fertig's No. 1, 20 |
Miller, Meyer & Co.'S No. Maggie Nc
Donald, Is. Shaffer No. 1, 35. Black &
Co. g No. 1, 80.
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