Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-27
an OLD TIME GUSHER.
Greenlee & F0rst Get a Well on the
Marshall at NOblestown.
REPORT OF A WELL AT PRIMROSE.
New Gas Company Organized Yesterday to
Pipe Fuel to Pittsburg.
DRILLING FOR OIL IN FAR OFF PERI

An old time, copper lined, brass bouni
gusher, bearing the Mcdonald trade mark
was developed a few hundred feet south.
! east of Noblestown yesterday. It is Green
lee & Forst's No. 6, on the Marshall farm,
and was reported yesterday afternoon by
Mr.. Greenlee to be making 20 barrels ar
hour.
The owners as well as the other operators
in the locality were astonished at the size
of the we'll 1t is located abou 500 fee
south of the Panhandle, and a quarter of {
mile southwest of Oakdale. North of it i.
the big Noblestown pool, while not ovel
15O feet northeast of it is we'll on the
Freeman property which is good for moi
| more thad 20 barrels day.
There was a report in circulation last even
ing that the well was making only forty
barrels an hour. 1t has been some time
since q well of this size has been struck In
the field.
The Forest Oil Company's No. on the
| Campbell heirs farm, which is located al
most two miles north of Oakdale, and next
to the Oskdale Gas Company's No. on the
Robb acre, was reported last night to be in
the sand and showing light. The Forest
has started No on the Cambpeli nelrs.
It is located between the Woodland Oil
Company's No. 2 Lutz aud the Forests n o.
Campbell heirs.
The Woodland Oil Company's No. 2 on
| the Lutz farm is due to get the sand the last
| of this week.
Late last evening there was rumor in
circulation that the Wheeling Gas Com
pany's we'll on the George farm, down near
| Primrose, west of Mcdonald, was in the
| sand and making Is barrels an hour. The
report could not be confirmed and little
stock was taken in it.
Did not Respond to . Shot.
The New York Oil Company's No. 3 on
| the Fife farm, two miles west of Mobiles
town, was shot with 40 quarts of glycerine
Yesterday and did not respond with even an
apology for flow.
This we'll is located between two good
ones 1t is about 175 feet from the old
Fife No. 1, which has produced thousands
of barrels of oil, and Fitzgibbons & CO..
No. Walker, which started off at 60 bar
rels an hour.
There was no sand of any consequence in
the New York Oil Company's No. 3 Fife.
A little powdered stuff was found, but not
foot of oil bearing rock, and the hole did not
even fill up. It only goes to illustrate the
erratic character of the Fife pool, in which
four paying wells have been found and
dozen busters drilled.
Fitzsibbons. Jennings & Co. shot
their well on the Mckee property, north Of
Oakdale, yesterday, but 1t failed to improve.
The Devonian Oil Company is d.illing
two wells in the Mcdonald field. Its No
2 on the Mcdonald Bros. property down
near Primrose is down about 900 feet, and
No on the W. B. Moorhead is down ], 200
feet
The Woodland Oil Company went to con-
siderable trouble this week to keep a verbal
agreement The Woodland is drilling on
the Crawford farm southwest of Mcdonald
and the Wheeling Gas Comrany is drilling
on the Robbins farm adjoining Each
agreed to keep $40 feet from the line. Yes
No. Crawford was almost completed, they
| discovered that they were only 300 feet
from the line fence and without wasting
any time they tore down their rig and
moved it back 40 feet. They expect to be
spudding Friday.
Will Pipe Gas to Pittsbure.
Gettman & Wauke, who have been oper-
ating in the Mcdonald, McCurdy and
CHARTERS fields for the past two years, have
recently developed some good gas territory
in the extreme northeastern part of Mo
Curdy. On the Burnett farm they have
gasser in the fourth sand which is good for
over 100 pounds minute. A fourth sand
gasser is usually worth more than a gasser
in any other sand, owing to the staying
qualities of the fourth sand gas, and Gett-
man & Wauke believe they have little
bonanza.
Altogether they have about 450 acres, and
have Just reorganized their firm, which will
be known as the Ruppel Oil and Gas Com
pany, with capital OF $50, 900. MI. Wauke
said yesterday that they were about to start
a well on the Moore farm, adjoining the
Burnett
They have had several offers for the lat
ter well, but not enough to induce them to
part with it. The Ruppel Oil and Gas
Company will lay pipes to Pittsburg and
sell the gas Mr.. Wauke stated that they
had one small gas well from which they had
realized S4s, 5000.
The Philadelphia Gas Company has two
wells in the northeast end of the McCurdy
field which should be in the fourth sand
this week. The No. l on the Leade is due
some time to-day, and No. 1 Cole to-
morrow.
WEST VIEw-The Oil Well Supply
Company has finished up it's No. on the
Ivory farm. 1t is a big gasser from the fifth
sand. This company is still fishing for a
string OF tools on an adjoining iarm.
New Work at Sistersvilie.
SIsTERsvILLE-The out look for in
creased activity in this field is good The
daily production is almost 5000 barrels,
and only two dry holes have been drilled in
all of the vast amount of territory which
has been tested
Murphy Bros. & Co., of Washington. Pa,
who recently purchased the lease Of the
Salisbury farm for S1O. OO0 have started to
build a couple of rigs on their newly ac-
quired property.
NJ Finegan, of the Devonian Oil Com
pany, said last evening that his firm would
start three or four new wells within the
next two or three weeks. Most of these
wells will be put down to fill the require
ments of their leases. One will be located
on the Widow Wells property.
The Victor Oil Company's No. 1, on the
Wells farm, is making about 30 barrels a
day, and their No. is down 600 feet
- Personal
Frank Lowry, superintendent Of the gas
and water department of the Forest Oil
Company, will 60 to Cambridge Springs
to-day to recuperate for couple Of weeks
B. Forst, of Forst & Greenlee, and his
family are spending the hot weather at
Bedford Springs
Tom Murphy, the gigantic operator and
contractor, who at one time ruled the Brad
ford police force, has invented process for
equa1izing the strength of the reins in a
set of jars. He claims that when jars break
it is caused by the unequal length of the
reins, thereby throwing the entiie weight
of the stem on one vein, which eventually
gives way. His process consists ih stretch
ing the reina and allowing them 10 cool in
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