Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-29
SISTERSVILLE WELLS
Of the First Magnitude We're Drilled
Into the Pay Yesterday.
GUsHERS FOUND On BOTH BANKS.
Light Developments the Rule in Mcdonald
and Local Fields.
WORKING A MYSTERY AT TIFFIN, O.

At miles below Wheeling Some of the
biggest producers which have so far beer
developed in that recently discovered region
were brought to light yesterday, and on
both sides of the river.
The Sistersville field has now a ddly
| production which hovers in the neighbor.
hood Of the 12,00O-barrel mark, and from
the latest developments it is very likely
that this pool NAV have a daily output Of
5000 or 10000 barrels before the limit is
reached.
The No we'll of Captain Jones & Co.
! on the J. P Mccoy farm, reached the ray
Yesterday and startled the natives when it
| began to toss out petroleum at the ratelof
so barrels an hour. This we'll is on The
| West Virginia side, ami is located about q
| mile up the river in northeast direction
| from Sistersville.
The other we'll brought in on the Vast
Virginia shore belongs to the Island Oil
Company, and is on the Jacob Tuel prop
erty almost in the town. 1t tapped the pay
at an early hour, and according TO late
report last evening it was making oil at the
rate of 25 barrels every so minutes
The operators on the Ohio side also took q
whirl at the sand, and two good wells re-
suited. Although their combined produc-
tion is only 20 barrels an hour, FIVE less
than the two on the West Virginia side, one
of them is making 60 barrels an hour.
1t is Twitchell & Hershberger's No. 8 on
the Stewart farm, and is located almost di-
rectly northwest of Jones g. Co.'S well on
the Mccoy property in West Virginia.
The Millers Run Oil Company, which
was recently bought out BY G. w. Henry,
of Chicago, not to be behind hand in devel-
opments, hit the pay in its No. on the
Stewart farm, adjoining Twitchell & Hersh-
berger's well, and it started off at 20 barrels
an hour
1t was one of the biggest days in the Sis
tersville field for good developments, and
although these wells cannot be said to open
up any new territory, or extend the field,
they show that the operators who predicted
paying field in that locality knew what
they were talking about
Operations at Mcdonald.
There were no new wells reported in the
Mcdonald field yesterday, although sew
eral are on top of the sand. Greenlee &
Forst's No. Marshall was reported to be
two bits in the fifth and gassing strongly.
They expected to get the pay late last night.
1t is located south of Noblestown.
The Woodland Oil Company's No. 1, on
the GLADDEN. farm, south of Mcdonald and
drilled through the third sand. They had
about 75-barrel well from the Gordon and
fourth sands, but got no increase in the
fifth. Yesterday afternoon they were pre-
pairing to shoot it In the fourth sand.
Their No. 3, on the Crawford farm, two
miles southwest of Mcdonald, is due to get
the fifth sand tomorrow or Saturday.
Greenland & Forst have started to drill
No. Kirk, which is located in the Melse
hollow, south of Willow Grove.
The Forest Oil Company's No. 6, on the
John McEwen farm, southwest of Willow
Grove, is due to reach the Gordon sand this
oil. They will start to spud at No. 5, on
the McClelland farm, east of Oakdale,
to-day, and they are building rig for No.
on the Stirling, IN the same locality.
The Devonian Oil Company's No. 4, on
the W. B. Moorhead farm, south of Nc
Donald, is due in the sand to-day.
The Forest Oil Company yesterday sue
ceeded in getting the tools out of the Rob-
ert Wallace we'll, in the Meise hollow,
where they have been fishing for weeks.
The hole is 1850 feet, but they were delayed
by cave at 1, 300 feet
There was only one we'll reported to be
making 20 barrels an hour in the Mcdonald
field yesterday. 1t is Greenlee & Forst's
No Marshall, their No. Noble heirs
having been dropped from the list.
The estimated production was given as
1000 barrels, the same as the day before.
The No. Freeman OF Malarkey g Co., lust
southwest of 0akdale, has stopped flowing
entirely.
Light Showing in the GarvIn Pool
GALLERY JUNCTIoN-The Forest Oil
Company's No. 2 ON the F. & f. G. Maeder
farm, in the Garvin pool and four miles
west of south from this place, was reported
last night to be ten feet in the pay and to
have made only one flow. Their No. 2 on
the Fred Maeder farm is due in the pay the
first of next week.
The Snyder Oil Company's we'll on the
Lucy farm, which adjoins the Fred Maeder
farm, was reported to be 60 feet in the sand
without showing of oil.
Work in the Pinhook Anticlinal.
MILLTowN-The Forest Oil Company
was putting in the last casing in its No. 1
Caldwell farm yesterday. Their No. on
the Colgan was cased Saturday at !, 900 feet.
No. Hamill, belonging to the same COM
pany, is in the 100-foot, and their No 1
Ryan and No. Snively are between !, 900
and !, 200 feet deep.
An Ohio Mystery.
TIFFIN, O.-Considerable activity is
springing up in this new field. The
Sun Oil Company's No. 1, L. Michael
tract, section 20, Clinton township, Seneca
county, is in the sand and showing some
crude. The rig is enclosed BY high board
fence and no one is allowed inside.
There have been 10 wells completed in
this part of Seneca county, and the sand is
found on an average of about 1,46O feet.
Two years ago we'll was drilled on the
Strsusbaugh farm, in section IS, Eden town.
ship, where the sand was struck at 1850
feet with slight showing of both oil and
gas. No. 2, Sawmill lot, section o. Hope
we'll township, will make good producer.
The Wenner lot well and the Agricultural
we'll on the bank of the river are the best
producers here, doing about 100 barrels
each; in these two wells the sand was struck
at 1 ,449 and 1, 44S feet
The Gauges.
The production OF Mcdonald was 10000
yesterday, the same as the day before. The
hourly gauges of the largest wells at Nc.
Donald yesterday were as follows: Greenlee
& Forst's No. Marshall, 90. The esti-
mated production was q, 900; stock in field,
46, 900.
Runs and Shipments Tuesday.
The National Transit runs were 3s, 255;
shipments, $685. Runs of Southwest Penn
sylvania from Mcdonald, I7,S47; outside of
1888, total runs 27.Ssl Buckeye
runs OF Macksburg oil, none: shipments,
|, ,3A. Buckeye runs of Lima oil, IS, 49l;
shipments, so, 363. Eureka runs, IA. l79: shin,
ments, 2,740; New York transit Shipments.
none. Southern Pipe Line shipments, none.
The runs of the w. L. Mellon Pipe Lines
on Tuesday were 6,645; receipts from other
lines, 733; total receipts, 1879; shipments,
5, 426.
the runs of the Western and Atlantic Pipe
Line Company Tuesday were 2,979; ship
ments, 4,24
The runs of the Tidewater Pipe Line Com
pany Tuesday were 4. 4.024; total for the month,