Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-02
WELLS NOW DRILLING.

| The Operators in the Mcdonald Field still
Pounding Away Patterson g. sohn
Still Fishing for q stem at Underc life
Where the Sand Is Exp .cted Soon.
The work in the fields yesterday was not
productive of any great results. There are
plenty of wells drilling, but hone of them
reached the vital spot or brought up the ag-
| gregate production.
Only one we'll is on the list of the McDon-
| aid gushers. 1t is the Royal Gas Company's
No. on the Mark Rolb farm and it is doing
| only 20 barrels an hour. The production is
still given as Is 600 barrels day for the Nc
| Donald field.
Patterson & Sohn's we'll on the Kessler
| farm, back of UDdercliffe was making from
10 to IL barrels an hour yesterday. They ex-
pected to get the stem out yesterday but at
u late hour last evening they had not sue
The wheeling Gas Company has put the
81 casing Oh its No. on the Robbins farm,
southwest of Mcdonald.
The Moore Oil Company's well on the Oak
Ridge Coal Company's property was on top
of the fifth sand last evening, but they did
not expect to get it drilled in until to-day.
on the Hancock farm in the Wildwood field.
Jennings Bros. q Co. are down 800 feet on
the Meyer farm in the same locality, and
Powers Co. expect to finish up next week
The Philadelphia Gas Conpany's No. on
the Steele farm is down l,6O0 feet Their No.
Homas is 900 feet deep and their No. on
the Boyle is down 1000
Soma of the Drilling Wells.
Russell, Nc Millen & Company will finish
up their No. on the Robb larm the first OF
next week. Their No. Robb is in the 100
foot, and No. is down 300 feet.
The Royal Gas Company's No. on the
Mark Robb farm is drilling at 500 feet, and
No. is down a couple OF hundred.
W. P. Rends No. 2 on the Sauters farm
located mile and a half south of Mcdonald,
is down 800 feet, and his No. on the same
farm is drilling at LOO feet.
Ihe Devonian Oil Company's No. on the
W. B. Moorhead farm should be completed
luck. Their No. 5 on the J. II. Robb farm is
down 800 feet, and they are rigging up at
No. on the Wettengell farm.
Cutler & Co. are down 500 feet on the
The Fisher Oil Company is drilling No. 4
on the McMichael farm.
Malarkey & McCullens' No. on the Free
man property. just west of Oakdale, should
be drilled in the last of next week.
Kennedy, Fitzgbbons & Co. are spudding
in No. on the Ken nedy farm. The PEOPLES
Gas Company's No. 154 McMurray is down
1900 feet.
There were 81 wells completed in the Sis
terville field last month with new produc-
tion o. 7,l2l barrels. Fourteen wells were
dry. In this field there are now $50 wells
drilling aud 40 rigs have been completed,
makinga total of %. Only - wells were
finished up in the Mcdonald held last
month and 20 are drilling.
Sale of OIL Property.
Guckert & Steele, of Pittsburg, have sold
their Humphrey. Duncan and Nesbitt leases
in the Petersoiler and Harmony fields, Butler
county, to j. v. Ritts and William Walker.
of Butler There are l3 wells on these leases
with total production OF 365 barrels, and
net production of 800 barrels. J. W. McFar-
land conducted the negotiations. The con-
slderation is private.
The Gauges.
The production of Mcdonald was Is, 900 yes
terday, the same as the day before. The
hourly gauges of the larger wells at McDon-
aid yesterday were as follows; Royal Gas
Company's No. l Mark Robt, 20. The esti-
mated production was 1900; stock in the
field, 5000.
Runs and shipm ents.
National Transit Company runs were
81, ,9s3; shipments, 1882.
Southwest Pennsylvania runs from Nc
Donald were 1879. Outside of Mcdonald,
IA 1888. Buckeye runs, Macksburg division,
5.26S shipments none. Shipments from the
Lima division, 81, ,s66; runs, 70, 4l9 The Eureka
runs were l3, lS5: shipments 1904 Southern
Pipe Line shipments, l,52S. New York
Transit shipments, 57,5S6.
The Tidewater Pipe Line runs on the 3lst
were 7767; total, 116, 4J4; average, 756. Ship
ments were none; average, 1856: total, 2l3 642.
The runs from the SistersvIlle tield yester- |
day were IL, SIT barrels.