Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-03
REVIVED WITH A SHOT.

Greenlee q Forst's No. MarshalI Brought
Up to as Barrels an Hour-Butler
County Operations-Reports From the
Big Elizabeth Gas Field.
No wells were reported to have tapped
the oil rock yesterday. Greenlee & Forst
shot their No. 6 on the Marshall farm,
south of NobIestown, and brought Its pro-
duction up from 10 to 45 barrels an hour.
It was added to the list, but the output
Of the field was given as 5000 barrels, the
same as the previous day.
The Moore Oil Company expected to get
into the dfth sand late last night at its well
located half mile east or 0akdale.
The Forest Oil Company is still drilling In
the fourth sand on the Devine farm in the
northeastern part OF the McCurdy neld.
full. of oil they are not making
much progress. Contrary to first indications
the well is not going to be much OF q pro-
Queer from the fourth. Parties who are
yesterday do not believe twill make more
than five or eight barrels day.
The Sinclair Oil Company expects to nnish
up couple of wells next week on the k1rk
farm in the Meise hollow, south Of Willow
Grove, and the Florence Oil Company has
a couple on the Mrs. Robb arm in the same
locality which are nearing the sand;
the Crawford farm, southwest of Mcdonald,
is within a short distance Of the Gordon
sand. They do not expect q well in that
formation, but are looking for oil In the
fifth.
The Wheeling Gas Company's No. s Rob
bins, which offsets the Crawford No. 8. Is
down 1900 feet.
Butler and Elizabeth Operations.
HARMoNY-Guckert & Steele are starting q
wildcat well on Camp Run, about i've miles
northwest of this place. They are also start
ing well on the Gardner farm. in the Gar
vim pool, three miles south and west Of Cal
lery Junction r
Schlegel, Lentz & Co.'s well, on the Ben
Garvin farm, was reported yesterday by
Major Steele to be making S75 barrels q day.
Guckert & Steele have two wells now
drilling in Butler county. Their Schell No.
4, at Harmony. is in the gas sand, and they
are spudding in q we'll on the Duncan farm
at Petersville.
The Elizabeth Herald says in regard to the
big gas well which John A. Snee recently
drilled on the Homer Wright farm: Addi-
tional evidence is at hand to show that
Snee's Wright well, short distance above
drilled. When the we'll was turned into the
12-inch line TO the Carnegie mills the pres
sure began co increase rapidly and soon ran
up so that 1t was found necessary to turn
other wells of. This was done until every
one of the "A producing wells in the West
Elizabeth field was cut out of the line. Still
the pressure was found to be increasing at
a rate which threatened danger to the line
and the % wells in Washington county, the
product of which has been conducted by the
same line. were shut OFF. Then the big roarer
was given u chance to show what she could
do, and the astonishing TACT was revealed
that this one well was producing more than
the other 36.
Mr.. Snee presented each OF the drillers
on the big well with a check equal to twice
IA nj WI w
agreed to work. He is building the rigs for
Nos. and Wright for No. Blaine and No.
Mcclure and has started to drill No. l
Lytle and No. Pierce
On the east side of the river at West
Elizabeth the Philadelphia Company is
down ,O0O feet in No. l Howe; No. 2 Howe is
being spudded in and they are building rigs
for Nos. 8. 4, and Howe and No.
Bohlander.
Ex-senator Lewis Emery, Jr., was In Pitts
burg yesterday making a contract with
National Tube Works for pipe for the United
States Pipe Line Company, which they have
commenced to build through the northern
tier counties to the seaboard.
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 Robb, 20: Greenlee
& Forst's No. Marshall, As. The estimated
production was ls,0JO stock in the field,
$4,000.
Runs and Shipments.
National Transit Company runs were
29, 74s; shipments. 7,546.
Southwest Pennsylvania runs from Nc
Donald were 1920. Outside of Mcdonald,
3.735. Buckeye runs, Macksburg division,
4.069; shipments, none. Shipments from the
Lima division not in; runs, 80, 6s5. The Eureka
runs were l2, 25l: shipments l,42l. Southern
Pipe Line. shipments. not in. New York
Transit shipments, 4l,S30.
The Tidewater Pipe Line runs on the lst
were 1881
Tho OIL Market.
Range of the October option: Opening,
b5c; highest. 5511c; lowest. 55c; closing, 55c.
Refined oil-New York, 6.l0c; London, 80
4 1850; Antwerp lower at 1877.
OIL CITY, Sent. 2.-Opened, 55c; highest,
653sc; lowest, 54Hc: closed, 5479c. Sales 63, 900
bDls; clearances, 332 000 bbls; shipments 90,-
$50 Dbls; runs II, liz bbls.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2-Petroleum opened
steady and after a narrow movement closed
steady; Pennsylvania oil, spot sales, 5000
barrels at $40. October option-Sales S5,-
900 barrels; opened, 55c; highest, 55Zc; low
est, $50: closing, 55c. Lima oil, no sales.
Total sales, 49, 900 barrels.
ANGoSTURA Bitters are the best remedy
for removing indigestion.