Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-19
THE PITTSBURG
CHANGES AT M'DONALD.


The Oak Ridge Well Doing From 10 to 16
Barrels an Hour-Big Gasser Struck In
Milltown-Good Producer in Northern
Sistersville.
There were few changes yesterday in
the wells in the Mcdonald field. Only one
is reported as doing 90 barrels an hour. 1t
is the Peoples Gas Company's No 155 on
the Dixon farm.
Greenlee & Forst's No. 6 Marshall and
Guffey s. Co. 3 No. Shane were dropped.
The estimated production of the field went
off from 20, 500 to &C, 600 barrels. The runs
from Sistersville were reported as Il, 800
barrels.
Greenlee & Forst's No. 1 on the Oak
Ridge property, just east of Oakdale,
which WAS looking like q duster Monday
evening, began to flow yesterday when l3
feet in the sand, and, according to report
given ont at the office of the firm last even-
ind 1t was making from 10 to Is barrels an
hour.
Conners & Co.'s we'll, on the Cook farm,
and Greenlee & Forst's, on the Potter, SOUTH
west of the Noise pool, are each making
about $50 barrels day from the Gordon
sand.
The Peoples Gas Company's No. 155.
on the McMurray properly. near Gregg
Ia
and showing for 20 barrels a day. They
have made o location for No. l59 on the
Dixon farm. Their No. l57 on the McMurray
is drilling 1T l,6oo feet They & struck A. Big
within the limits of Midtown.
The Forest Oil Company will try to drill
its Sas Seen
strongly that they have found it almost
impossible to run the tools.
Tn Deyonian Oil Company's No. 8, on the
NurU No n Il~$N
heirs, north of Mcdonald. are expected to
reach the fifth sand this evening OF to-nor-
row morning.
Greenlee & Hartman have started to spud
at No. g on the Potter farm. and are build
ing a rig for No. 8. Greeniee & Forst have
made q location Tor No. 8 on the Oak Ridge
Coal Company's property.
Jennings, G uffey & Murphy are down l 800
feet in No. Joseph Robb, 800 feet in No.
Mark Robb and 100 feet in No. OH the
Matthews heirs far;n.
From Scattering Pools.
UNDERcLIFF-Patterson Sohn's we'll on
the ErhmenIrout farm was reported last
evening by an interested party to be ten feet
in the 3O-foot without q showing OF oil. The
sand is hard and dry. They claim to have
got the gas in stray sand above the 30-foot
In the kessler we'll, 900 feet north, they got
the oil at Is feet in the 30-foot. The Erhmen-
trout will be drilled deeper to-day.
jennings & Co.'s Myers well will get the
so-foot this week. They are looking for oil
in the third sand only.
SIsTERsvILLE-Tne Emery OIL Company's
No. 4 Whitten, on the Ohio side, was re-
ported to have made It's barrels in u hours,
ending at O'Clock yesterday morning. The
Eanawha Oil Company expected to drill in
their No. Rudolph, and Jennings & Grace
were expecting their Island well in yester-
day.
WEST ELIzABETH-John A. Snee finished a
dry hole on the Pierce farm last evening.
and the Philadelphia Company completed u
duster on the Boiander lot.
ELLwooD CTTY-Book Bros, Nixon & Co.
have struck lubricating oil well on Slip
perry Rock creek, four miles northwest OF
is 3s3 feet Deep and filled up ITO feet with oil.
They are tubing it.
The Gauges.
yesterda ay. 500 less than the day before. The
hourly gauges of the largest wells &C McDon-
aid yesterday were as follows: Peoples
Gas Company's o. 155 Dixon. 20. The es-
4s.00O
The runs from the sistersville field were
Il, 800 barrels on Monday.
Runs and Shipments Monday.
The Monday runs of the National Transit
Company were 34,S6S; shipments, 1885,
Southwest runs from Mcdonald were 1898;
outside of Mcdonald, 9.937; total, 27,235
buckeye Pipe Line runs from the Macks-
runs Of Lima oil, 46,o3s; shipments, 36.66i.
Eureka Pipe Line runs, 1878: Shipments
2,0Z Southern Pipe Line shipments, 81, ,222.
New York Transit shipments, 81, ,3o4.
barrels Monday; shipments, l,622.
The runs OF the w. L. Mellon lines on Mon
day were $3.50; receipts from other lines
none; total receipts. $3.50; shipments. SILL