Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-16
SOME LIGHT OIL WELLS.

QUILL LlUQl Ul1 WELLS.
The Mcdonald Field Did Not Loom Up
Strong Yesterday Fisher Farm Venture
Reported Almost Dry Good Well South
west of Sistersville and One at Under
cliff. .-..
There were few startling developments in
the local fields yesterday. During the
pas! week there lave been a number of sur
prises and some wells have been brought
in which have materially increased the
amount of territory which has come to be
considered valuable.
This is notably the case in the
Mcdonald field. The wells of Green
lee & Hartman, on the Potter farm, and
Conners & Co., on the Cook. have extended
the Mcdonald field to the south and south
east. and although they are flowing from
the Gordon sand. they will. no doubt, lead
to large amount OF drilling in the region
in which they are located.
In the northeastern part of the McCurdy
field the Ruppel Oil and Gas Company has
developed remarkably good well on the
1t gets its oil from the fifth sand, and ac-
cOrding to members OF tie company who
were interview ed yesterday it has averaged
600 barrels day since Thursday morning.
There has been but one well drilled in
this part of the field which has been in
any way comparable TO it, and that is j. NJ.
1t is located at least $500 feet away, and
has produced upW ards OF $1,000 barrels OF
petroleum.
The Ruppel Oil and Gas Company has lso
acres leased around their Moore farm well,
and they will develop it very carefully.
They have started to drill No. on the
Moore. and do not intend to put down any
more until they see the result OF No. .
Starting in Northeast McCurdy.
j. NJ. Guffey s. Co. are starting a we'll on
the Ewing farm, which joins the Moore
farm ON the north, and they also have rig
up on the Aiken property, W hich lies just
south OF the Moore.
Fitzgibbons & Co.'S we'll on the Fisher
farm, which touches the Elliott lease of the
Devonian Oil Company on the north, was
reported last evening o be almost through
the fifth sand and showing for only
Is or 20 barrels a day. This well is a verita-
BILE disappoint tment. as all who we're inter-
ested in it or held leases in the vicinity
seemed to think that it would prove to be
good well.
Information received from the Florence
Oil Compnny's well on the Miller farm late
yesterday afternoon was to the effect tnat it
was still drilling above the fifth sand and
making from 175 TO 200 barrels day.
The Royal Gas Company's No. 2, on the
n. G. Cook farm, located southeast of Nc
Donald about mile and a half, was reported
and flied up 1,GUO feet. The well was then
shut in until tankage could be put up, as
they believe it will be n good producer.
Tomlinson, Mcconnell & Co. s fourth sand
gasser on the Brown farm south of Laurel
Hill will be turned in the line tomorrow.
Greenlee s. Forst's No. l on the Oak Ridge
Coal Company's property east of Oakdale
was only three screws above the fifth yes
terday afternoon, and was expected In the
pay late last evening.
Mcconnell & Co. are preparing to start
a well on the Hallam farm. which adj
joins the Cook of the Royal Gas Company.
The Peoples Gas Company's No. l56. Nc
Murray, located just north of Oakdale, will
not be better than 25.barrel well.
Well in at Undercliff:
UNpERcL1FF-J. NJ. Patterson & SoEp's No.
l, Erlimenhout, was reported last night to be
in the SO-foot and showing for n good we'll.
1t is 1000 feet south of their Kessler farm
well.
Sistersville Going Southwest.
SIsrEIsvILLE-A telegram was received at
the Office OF the Devonian Oil Company in
PittsDurg last evening, stating that their
we'll on the Kecner heirs farm was in, and
flowing strong.
1t is located at least three miles sou til of
Sistersville. and about three-fourths of
mile from the river. If the report is true it
will open up q large scope of territory in the
region southwest of what is now known as
Oil Reported Near Chicago.
Chicago paper published nearly a col.
umn of matter yesterday morning in rela-
tion to q strike of oil and gas which has been
made on the Sea Moss Kennels farm, located
10 miles from Ch icago. OH the North western
Railroad, and IA miles from Glencoe sta
tion.
1t states that at a depth of $50 feet, in an
art esian we'll which was being drilled oil
IN d gas were struck. Several barrels of oil
we're thrown out OF the hole and the roar of
the gas could be heard Tor 3co feet after it
was ignitcd. the next day after being
struck the we'll failed to produce either oil
or gas, aud the natives conclude that the
pine is stopped up by the sand.
The we'll is loca ted near u marsh, and the
chances are that it is simply marsh gas, anG q
pocket Of marsh oil which has been thrown
out. The account states that land in this
locality which was formerly placed at $500
all acre is now put ut $1,000.
The Gauges.
The production of/3lcDoDald was 10000
500 less. than the dag before. The
hourly gauges of the largest wells nc McDon-
aid yesterday were rs follows: Forst &
Greenlees No. Marshall, 22:' j. NJ. Guffey's
No. 5 Shane, %; Forest OIL COmpanys No
20 The estimated production
WAS 20 900; stock in field, $4,000.
the runs from the Sistersvilie field were
IA, 1875 barrels.
Runs and Shipments Friday.
The Friday runs of the Nation al Transit
Company were S0,6a6: shipments, s400s
Southwest runs from Mcdonald were IL SIS;
outside of Mcdonald, 7,43o; total, e5,ass.
Pipe Limo runs from the Macks-
burg field, 6,4s4; shipments, not in. Buckeye
runs OF Lima oil, s.. .6s3; shipments, 2,0S4.
Eureka Pipe Line runs, 17.722; shipments.
9, 1856. Southern Pipe Line shipments, IL, ,4s4.
New York Transit shipments. 397I5.
The Western and Atlantic lines ran 3030
barrels Friday; shipments, 237.
The runs or The W. l.. Mellon lines on Fri. |
day were 6766: receipts from other lines, |
none; total receipts, GIGS; shipments, 1894.
The OIL Market. |
Range o! the November option: Opening, |
5jaIc; highest, 5Esc; lowest, 5lHc: closing, |
5l4c.
Refined oil-New York, &c; London, 41s@ |