Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-11
WORK OF THE DRILL,
Moro Than the Usual Number OF su rprises
During the Week-McDonald Pool E1-
tending-Good Wells at SistrrviI!e Yes.
terday and tho Outnut Ia I'm


During the Week-McDonald Pool E1-
tending-Good Wells at sistrrvil!e Yes
terday. and tho Output Is Up.
The week just closed has been full of un-
usual developments for the oil trade.
None of the southwest fields have been neg
lected. Mcdonald took an entirely unex-
pected jump in,production and extension of
territory.
The western horizon was in the
lead with Fitzgibbons & Co.'S big we'll on
the Walker farm which started off at 100
barrels an hour. It was the talk of the
trade and the surprise it caused has not yet
died away. There will be another one or
two drilled in this week in the vicinity of
the Walker, or the old Fife pool, as it was
called.
Then in the northeastern end of the Nc
Curdy district, which is virtually part of
the Mcdonald belt the Forest Oil Com
pany drilled its Devine farm well deeper
into the sand and its production jumped
from five barrels day to over 100. 1t is
purely test well and occasioned O great
deal of comment. -. ...
low Grove, q dry hole was drilled by tho
Forest Oil Company on the Mrs. Campbell
farm. The same company'S No. on the j.
lee & Forst's No MoMurray, at Mobiles
town, which has received nearly quart of
glycerine for every barrel of oil it produced,
finally refused to respond as of yore to
shot.
The Forest Oil Company and J. NJ. Guffey's
No. McMichael, which was drilled several
months ago, was touched up with little
glycerine, and is now doing over 800 barrels
a day.
May Open q Gas Field.
Another little gas field has proba bly, been
opened up at Aliquippa, on the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie, where Laughner &
Co. have finished up a 30o;pound we'll.
There have been some wells drilled about O
mile from the one just finished, but none of
them amounted to much as producers of
either oil or gas.
mile southwest of the Fife pool, in
western Mcdonald, duster was completed
last week on the Cooks farm. 1t was dry in
all sands, and seems to stop the Fife ana
Walker belts from going any distance in
Almost in the boundary OF oakdale Will
son & Go. got very light we'll on the Glib
son five acres.
There have been half dozen wells started
in the neighborhood Of John NJ Patterson &
Co.'s well on the Kessler farm, back of Un-
de-clitte, which is still making 200 barrels q
day.
Claim $4,000 Barrels Production.
Down at sistersville operations are active.
The people in the field claim they have a
daily production of 1900 barrels, and the
average pine line runs are over 11,0O0. Some
good wells have been recently developed.
Murphy Bros we'll on the salisbury farm,
for which they paid $4,000 bonus, has
reached the sand and there is no doubt
about it being good well.
Russell, McMullen & Co.'s we'll on the
Thistle farm is good for 100 barrels at least.
Gafney & Co. were tubing their well on
the Mccoy property, in the lower part of
town yesterday, and parties who visited it
claimed that it would be well.
Tidewater Pipe Line Statement.
The statement of the Tidewater Pipe Line
Company for August has been issued. 1t is
as follows: Runs from wells, 1l6, OF bar
rels; received from other lines lis, l54: deliv-
tiflcates or other vouchers. 5000 barrels;
sediment and surplus, los, 22l barrels.
The Gauges.
The production of Mcdonald was 19, 500 yes
terday, 500 less than the day before. The
hourly gauges of the larger wells at McDon-
aid yesterday were as follows: Florence
hons & Co. No. 6 j. Walker, 81. Lynch,
Buchheit & Co.'S No. l Meise, "a The es-
timated production was 1850; stock in the
field 45, 800.
Runs and Shipments.
National Transit Company runs yesterday
we're not in; shipments, 21 l35.
Southwest Pennsylvania runs from Nc
Donald were 17,0s6. Outside of Mcdonald,
7,499. Buckeye runs Macksburg division,
none: shipments, none. Shipments from the
Lima division, &C. l0s runs. 1867. Southern
Pipe Line shipments. 29,0lL New York
Transit shipments. 29,5l6.