Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-13
PIPE LINE STATEMENTS

They Show q Larger Amount Of Ship
ments Than Since 1S91-Increase in Ne,
Stocks Smaller Than for Two Years
Reports From tho Southwest Fields.
There was not the increase of barrel OF
oil in the PennsylvaDia districts yesterday,
as far as could be ascertained. Not well
reached the pay, although there are several
which are now almost on top of the sand.
The statement of the business done by the
pipe lines during August, which has
just been issued, is rather encourag-
ing. It shows an increase in the
amount of shipments over July, and
although the average daily runs went up
from 81, ,ol6 barrels in July to 9O,Ol5 inAugust,
the increase in the net stocks on hand at
the end of August were only 122.62l This
was due to the increase in deliveries from
2,3l0,6i6 barrels in July to 2,622 6S5 barrels in
August. difference of $4,000. The total
runs in August were 2,7s0, 4sl harrels, and in
July only 2,697,497, an increase or 92,9s4
barrels.
At the eud of August the various lines
had in stock ls,sl6,6S3 barrels. and in July
l22,62l which is less than it has been since
December 1890 when the shipments were
greater than the output. The shipments
for August. overbaianced those OF any
The certificates of the National Transit
Company increased 2O6 759 barrels, or from
$685. ,6S7 barrels in July to 6, ,075 1896 in August
line in August: Tidewater, 1l6 464; Octave
1891; National Transit, 9i5.9is; Southwest
Pennsylvania, s76Sls; Eureka, S94, ,25I; Buck
5;ss6: ". & A.. lls,s4l: Elk, 27,5sl: Emery,
81, 427; Melons, 14s, 299: Producers, 1000.
The shipments of each line were as fol-
lows: Tidewater: a3s. 425: Octave, 1.64; Ma
vania, 1o26: Buckeye, Macksburg oil, 1,54;
Eureka, ~, 4l3: Southern, 591, ,l5l: New York
Transit, 957,0s7; Charles Miller, $685. W. &
A., Sc, 1885, Elk. q, lo2; Emery, 27,52s: MELONS,
lou, 453: Producers, ,03O.
The following shows the stock on hand of
ench line at the end of August: Tidewater,
ss5. $780, Octave, 2, l42; National Transit, llsl7,
Eureka, 325,3s5; Buckeye, Macksburg OH,
46e. 3o5: Southern, 257, o63: New York Transit,
los6 9A: Charles Miller, ll,ss1; W. & A., 725,-
Tl; Elk. . Sas; 81 Emery, 44,s75: MELONS, 6ls.4ss;
The grass stocks OF the Buckeye Pipe Line
Company, Lima Oil, are 19,5O5, ,399.
Reports From The Wells.
The Forest Oil Company is spudding past
the tools in its No. on the Robert Wallace
farm, south of Willow Grove, and expect
to reach the Gordon sand this week. Their
well on the Deytne farm, in northeast Nc
Curdy, was reported at the company's Of
fees to be about As feet in the fourth sand
and doing ten barrels an hour. Their was
another report that 1t was doing Is an hour
The Philadelphia Com panys well on the
Leach farm, in the locality of the Devine, is
due to get the fourth sand to-day.
The Peoples Gas Company expects a well
in the last of the week on the McMurray
farm, north of OakdaIe and they are start
ing on McMurray farm east of Oakdale a
short distance.
Greenlee Forst's No. Mashall, at Mobiles
town. was shot, and brought up to 45 barrels
an hour. Their No. 2, Noble heirs, is due
Updegruff larm at Venice and have struck
a vein Of salt water which will have to be
The Devonian OIL Company's No. Joe
Robb is due the last of this week. also the
Forest Oil Company's No. John McEwen.
Gu1fey & Bradley have finished up u dry
hole at 1924 ieet in Guernsey county. o.
Patterson & Sohn are starting three wells
around their producer on the Kessler farm,
at Underclife, on the Pittsburg s. Western
railroad. They are ON the Joseph Ehrm-
The Kanawha Oil Company has started to
drill on the Herman farm, 500 feet north
east of the Kessler well.
The East End Oil Company is down 200
Dixon & Co. have put the 81 casing in
their Kuntz well, near the Lutz. The
kanawha Oil Company is drilling on the
Out at Midtown, the Pinhook anticlinal,
the Forest Oil Company is in the 100 foot at
its wells on the Caldwell and Colgan farms.
w. L. Mellon Is building a branch pipe
line to Gndercliffe from Pittsburg.
The Gauges.
The production of Mcdonald was 19, 800 YES
terday, the same as the day before. The
hourly gauges of the larger wells at McDon-
aid yesterday were as follows: Florence
OIL Company's No. 8 Robb's heirs, 20; Fitzgib-
bons & Co. No. j. Walker, Co. Lynch, Buch-
heit Co.'s No. ! Noise. %: Greenlee &
Forst's No. 8 Marshall, 45. The estimated
production was 1880; stock in field 55, 500,
Runs and Shipments Sunday.
Hereafter the runs and shipments of the
W. L. Mellon Pipe Lines will be printed with
the list given below. Sunday their runs
from the wells were 2,359.6s barrels; ship
ments. 65s5. 10 barrels.
Southwest Pennsylvania runs from Nc
Donald were 1882 Outside of Mcdonald,
1900 Buckeye runs, Macksburg division,
none; shipments, none. Shipments from the
Lima division, none: runs, l294 on Satur-
day; and SUNDAY, 1913. Southern Pipe Line
l6, l49 Saturday. and none Sunday.
New York Transit shipments, $3.50 on Sat-
urday; SUNDAY, none
The National Transit runs Friday were
3, I'll; Saturday, 1884; Sunday. 23l2. Ship
ments, Saturday and Sunday, 29,150.