Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-29
OIL SLIDING DOWNWARD.

Mcdonald and Sistersvi1le Both Showing
Light The Forests Clever Doing 60
Barrels an Hour-Three Wells on Top of
the Sand-Reports From West Virginia.
There was another dropping off yesterday
in the production of the Mcdonald field,
and the runs from Sistersville were only
II, ,SS7 barrels, or 1920 less than the dsy
before.
The estimated production of Mcdonald
went down from 1S, 500 barrels to Is, 900 bar
sells, and there were no wells reported by
the Pipe Line people as making 20 barrels an
hour o. more.
The Peoples Gas Company's No. 157 on the
McMurray farm. near Gregg station, on the
Panhandle, wes in the top of the fifth sand.
Both of these wells will be drilled in this
morning.
The Peoples Gas Company is starting to
build rigs for their Nos. 2 and 8 on the Dixon
farm. in the Meise Gordon sand pool. south
of Willow Grove They have completed the
rig at their No. l56 on the McMurray farm at
Gregg's, to take the place of the one de-
stroyed by fire the first of the week. Tnere
is shot in the hole and a bridge about so
feet above the shot which they are trying to
break up without exploding the nitro
There was fourth sand well reported
near Venice as making from 100 to $50 bar
rels a day. 1t is owned by Eachel & Ritchie.
N
couple of miles north OF Mcdonald, which
is within short distance Of the Gordon
sand.
Sand in the Martin Well.
The well of ]. NJ. Guffey & Co. on the Mar
tin farm, at killwen postoffice, eight miles
due east OF Sstersville, was reported in
Sistersville yesterday morning to have
reached the Big Injun sand. This venture
has caused much speculation, and what the
account of its distance from other wells and
the uncertainty as to the dip of the rock,
the owners and contractors don't know
where they are at, and are practically feel
ing their way. They struck a good gas vein
in what they now believe was a break in the
limestone, and after drilling through the
limestone and layer of slate they got what
they assert to'be the regular Big 1njun:
Four miles east of north of the Martin
farm we'll Tom Mills is down J., 500 feet on q
farm at the head OF Fishing creek. He has
been delayed by fishing job, but succeeded
a few days ago in getting the tools out.
UNDERCLIFr-Patterson & sohn's well on
the Erhmentrout farm is good for probably
40 barrels day from the 3O-foot.
The Gauges.
The production of Mcdonald vas IS, 900
yesterday, 500 less than the day before. The
estimated production was 5000; stock in
field, A, 900.
The runs from the SistersvilIe field were
II, ,Ss7 barrels on Thursday.
Runssand Shipments Thursday.
The Thursday runs of the National Tran
sit Company were 322l5; shipments, 80, 214;
Southwest runs from Mcdonald were IA S27;
outside of Mcdonald, 9,127; total, q, 1854.
Buckeye Pipe Line runs from the Macks-
burg field, 1859; shipments. $50; Buckeye
runs OF Lima oil, 81, ,s47; shipments, 4O, 476;
Eureka Pipe Line runs, H,0l4; shipments.
LIZA; Southern Pipe Line shipments, 20, ,S34;
New York Transit shipments, 32,7l9.
The Western and Atlantic lines ran 8, 1873
barrels Thursday: shipments, 2.374.
The runs of the W. L. Mellon Pipe Lines on
Thursday were 439; shipments, 1000.
The runs of the Tfdewater Pipe Line Com
panT were 5,0l5. Total for the month, 81, 7sS;
average, 8, 140. The shipments on Thursday
were 233O7; total for the month, 20S, $50;
average daily shipments, 1873.