Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-27

Cheapness is what counts in Europe
I'm Antwerp entered cafe where over
200 lamps were burning. / asked the pro-
prietor what oil he used, and he replied the
Russian, because he could get it for 30 cents
| a barrel cheaper, although he admitted that
it was inferior to the American product
| Quality made no difference; it was the
fpennies he had to look after. 1t is
1 so with the hundreds of thousands of peo-
| pie even in our own country. They cannot
afford to buy. the best meat from the
| butcher, or the finest grade of oil from the
| grocer, If they can get only moderate
| light'from Lima refined they will take it in
| preference to Pennsylvania refined, provid-
| ing they can get it at lower price.
While in Antwerp 1 saw on the docks a
| pile of barrels that would fill ship. They
were American barrels and had been
| shipped to Europe filed with American oil.
! In the interior cities they had been bought
| up by agents of the Nobel Bros, who had
them reglued, hooped and painted and then
| reflled with Russian oil from their tank
| cities.
Electric lights have affected home trade.
AT summer resorts and in small towns,
| where oil was formerly used exclusively,
electric light plants have been put in and
oil taken out. The home consumption does
not exceed %, 900 barrels a day in my opin-
ion. This would be 5000, 600 barrels year,
which is an enormous amount of petro-
leum."
The Work at the Wells.
The well of Guckert, Learn & Co., on the
Cunningham lot at Willow Grove, was
drilled deeper into the Gordon sand yester-
day, and last evening it was making Is bar
rels an hour
The Steubenville Oil Company started up
yesterday afternoon, and expected to reach
the sand, at late hour, on the Boa lot.
The Devonian Oil Company shotits No.
Elliott yesterday and increased its pro-
duction to 40 barrels an hour. They in
tend to shoot their No. j. n. Robb to-
daG.
Guckert & Steele's No II on the Mevey
farm is in the Gordon and good for 200 bar
rels day. Their No. Burchmal at Will
low Grove was due in the Gordon sand last
night.
Kennedy, Fitzgibbons & Gardeners No.
6 Mertz was 18 feet in the fifth sand yester-
day and filled up with oil
The Forest Oil Company's No. Eta
Glenn is due in the Gordon sand to-day,
also their No. r, W. Glenn. This COM
pany has succeeded in getting the tools out
of its well at Smiths Ferry.
Gardiner 81 Co. are through the hundred
foot on the Kennedy farm north of Oakdale.
Kirk & Co. are in the bottom of the 90
foot at their well on the GLADDEN. farm, !, 900
feet northeast of the w. B. Moorhead Mol.
The Wheeling Gas Company has cased off
the salt water which it got in the Gordon at
its No. 1 on the w. j. Kelso, three-quar-
ters of mile northeast of the Scott well,
and has started to drill to the fifth sand.
The jolly Oil Company is down 900 feet
in its well opposite the Noblestown station.
The Oakdale Oil Company's No. 2 on the
John Wetmore farm has increased to
nearly 80 barrels an hour.
Guffey, Jennings & Co. s No. Matthews
heirs was brought up to % barrels an hour
yesterday.
Guckert & Steele's No. 1 Shale at
Harmony, reached the sand yesterday, and
is making $50 barrels day.
LINEvILLE-Preston, Taylor & Torrey's
well on the McCurdy farm, came in dry
yesterday. 1t is the farthest we'll to the east
and practically condemns that territory.
Production and the Gauges
The estimated production of the field
Thursday morning compiled from gauges
was 26,50O barrels, the same as the
day before The hourly gauges were as fol-
lows: Jennings, Guffey & Co.'s No. Mat
thews. 25; Heron No. 4, 10: Matthews heirs
No. 2. %; Guffey & Queens No. 1 Sam
uel Wetmore, As; Devonian Oil Com
panys Nos. l and Boyce, 45 Oalldale
Oil Company's No. 2 Morgan heirs, 25; Nos.
and Baldwin, so; Nos. 1 and 2 Wallace, 80;
Forest Oil Company's No NJ. Wright, 20;
Guffey, Murphy & Co.'s Nos. and Sam
Sturgeon, 80; Oakdale Oil Company's No.
john Wetmore, 20; production, s6.5OO; stock
in the field, 5000.
The runs of the Southwest Pennsylvania
Pipe Line Company from Mcdonald Thurs
The National Transit runs were 39,2s7;
shipments, s,615. Buckeye runs, 30, 40; ship
ments, 81, 1856. Southern Pipe Line runs, 20, ,6a
New FORK Transit runs, 36,354. Macksburg
2, ,420