Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
OIL, GAS AND BUSTERS.
All Kinds of Wells Developed Around
Mcdonald Yesterday.
ANOTHER DROP IN PRODUCTION.
New Work Being Started South Of Willow
Grove Near the Meise.
AN OLD WE'LL DRILLED TO THE FIFTH

The Mcdonald field resumed some of its
old-time features yesterday. A number of
wells were reported in, but they will not
increase the production to any great extent
The output of the field was reported by the
pipeline gauges to have declined again,
| and to be now down to 2l,OOO barrels. Ihls
is 500 less than it was Tuesday morning.
| Lynch, Buchheit & Co.'S well on the Meise
farm was mt down from so to rs barrels an
hour, but the people at the we'll claimed
yesterday that it was doing from 30 to 30
| barrels an hour.
One of the most striking features deVel-
! oped yesterday was at Hawley & Co.'S well
| on the school house lot in the northern part
| of Noblestown. 1t was drilled early last
| fall. but was stopped in the Gordon sand as
been put down to the fifth were dry IN tnat
formation and the production from the
Gordon, or third, declined when the wells
were drilled below that sand.
Since then other wells have been produceo
from the fifth in that vicinity, ana Hawley
s. Co. decided to drill to the same levei;
They got it Yesterday morning. and ABOUT q
o'clock it made a couple of good noWs rom
the fifth sand, and the owners are now
hopeful Of getting well in that formatlon.
Two Wells Northeast of McCurdy.
The two test wells which have been drill
ing in advance of developments to the
northeast of McCurdy entered the fifth SAND
yesterday.
The one of Aiken, Rider & Co. on the
Spear farm is spraying oil with the tools In
the hole at the rute of 80 barrels day:
The Forest Oil Company's No. on the De
vine farm, a short distance west OF the
Spear, has developed into remarkably big
gasser. lis pressure was estimated yester-
day at 700 or 800 pounds to the inch.
The Oakdale Oil Company's NO o, on tne
Gormley farm south of the Wetmore wells,
was drilled through the fifth yesterday and
is dry. Their No. is due IN the fifth to-day
They also have well in on the Harrison
farm which is not good for more than 70 Dar-
rels a day.
Wright. was near the fifth sand yesterday,
and it may get in to-day. Their No !, on the
Gregg farm. is through the Gordon sand.
The Devonian OH Company's advance
well, on the Cubbage farm, has developed
big vein of salt water in the fourth sand
J. NJ Guffey, Reed & Co.'S No. 6, on the Man
kedck farm, at Willow Grove, was In the
Gordon Yesterday and showing light.
Wallace, Patton & Co.'S well, on top of the
hill back of Willow Grove, was reported to
be making u barrels an hour yesterday,
Bailey Roland Co. were yer rep1r6ed p16s 70 rave nave
schoolhouse lot. and increased Its produc-
tion to nearly 80 barrels o day.
New Work Being Started.
There will be n lot of new work started
within short time between the wells just
south of Willow Grove and the Meise farm
well.
Keil. Friday & Co., have two drilling on
the Mrs. Robb farm, northwest of the
Meise one of which is cased, and yesterday
they made locations for four others.
Greenlee & ForSt have cased their No. on
the Marshall and Chalfont lease, and are
about ready to case No. They have
started to spud in No 4 on the GLADDEN.
farm. Nos. 5 and Wade are due IN the
Gor0On by Monday
Brown Bros, Robinson & Co. have finished
casing their No. on the McMurray property
at Noblestown.
Greenlee & Forst expect to get the Cor
don sand in their No. 9 McMurray Monday,
and they have a rig up and will be spudding
Their No. l on the No. McMurray lease Is
through the Big Injun sand.
PEBBLES & Malarkey's we'll on the Freeman
property west of Oakdale is in the Big 1njun
sand.
SON lot is ready TO case.
Fertig & Co. are down several hundred
feet on the Keil lot, and unknown parties
are building rig on the McCann lot few
hundred feet southwest of Oakdale.
j. NJ. Guffev, Russell & McMullen's No. 8
on the W ettengel is filled up with Gordon
oil and may not reach the filth before Satur-
day.
The Bear Creek Refining Company's No.. 4
Campbell has been cased through the salt
sand.
on the Isaac Ewing farm.
Wildcat Well Reported Good.
: There was report in circulation yester-
day afternoon that rank wildcat in Finley
township, Washington county. owned by
Finley, Helm & Co., had been finished up
and was showing for q well. The report
could not be confirmed last night
A S5,090-ba tank located at Johnston
station on the Panhandle, and belonging to
the Western and Atlantic Pipe Line Com
pany, was struck by lightning late Tuesday
night and was burned. 1t was almost full Of
OIL Frank McCue and % linemen from
Washington fought the fire until late yester-
day morning to prevent it from spreading.
Tho Mcdonald Gauges.
The following estimates were submitted
by the gaugers of the Southwestern Pennsyl-
vania Pipe Line Company:
The production of the field was q, 900, or 500
less than the day before. The hourly gauges
were as follows: Matthews No ), 90; Devon
Oakdale Oil Company's Nos and Baldwin,
20: Forest Oil Company's No. Jane Stewart,
30: j. NJ Guffey s. Co.'s No. McMichael. Is;
Lynch & Co.'S No. / Meise, 25. Production,
eI,O00 Stock in field, 90 800.
The runs OF the Southwest Pennsylvania
Pipe Line Company from Mcdonald Wednes-
day were Ii, ,9OS: outside OF Mcdonald, S,O64.
The National Transit runs were Sc 275; ship
ments 5325. New York Transit shipments
were Sc 33S. Macksburg division of the Buck
eye Pipe Line Company, l,2lS. buckeye runs
e5774 shipments, E,5l7. Southern Pipe
Line shipments, &C, $50. Eureka, 7,6lL
SIsTERsvILLE-The Mercer & Potty Bros.
well on the Eph Wells farm, located three
quarters of mile below Sistersville, struck
the sand last evening, and is showing fora
nice well. 1t is one OF the most important
wells in the field, as there are no others near
it, anu it extends the good territory down
the river.