Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-06
i SHOOTING FOR OIL.
Plenty of Work in the Mcdonald
Field, but the Sluggard Fluid.
REQUIRES TO BE ENCOURAGED.
Operators Prone to Try Their Luck in the
Wildcat Territory.
FIGURES IN THD RECENT DRTLLINGS

expected it to be drilled into the fifth sand
but owing to an unforeseen accident the
drillers were unable to get it into the pay
streak. There is no we'll in this territory
that is so important as this well. 1t is 10.
Gated mile and half southwest of Nc
Donald ,and is practicallyin wildcat territory,
the only well near it being that OF the Ven
ture Oil Company, OH the Moorhead farm.
about 700 feet to the east. This well is do
ing about 100 barrels a day from the Gordon
sand. The next well in this territory is on
the Reed farm, belonging to Mercer, Robin
son & Co., and is located about three and
one-half miles southwest OF Mcdonald on
the 45o line. Although it has been pump
ing there are few who believe it is in the
fifth sand. It has been tubed but this does
not insure the fact that it is now doing more
than other wells in that locality.
Plenty of Work at Mcdonald.
To return to the Mcdonald field There
is still plenty of work being done in this
vicinity. Every contractor or driller, so
disposed, can get jobs anv time. The
chances are there will be an immense field
opened up southwest of Mcdonald on $50
line. On this assumption operators are 60
! ing ahead and drilling in what has here
| tofore been considered the rankest wildcat
| found from the coast of Labrador to
| the Pacific Gulf on 45o line
from northeast to southwest there
is no telling but that oil may be found
| on this line in as paying quantities as it
has been in the Mcdonald field. West Vir-
| ginia, Kentucky and Alabama have all pro-
duced oil and the chances are that when the
! Pennsylvania field plays out, as it is sure to
| do sometime, these States will then contain
the great oil producing fields of the world.
| Allegheny county, Pa, still holds the
palm as the keystone oil producing terri
tory of the world. The oil found in this
county is shipped to every part of the earth
and is the cheapest illuminant by which
man lights the earth at night.
The Oakdale Oil Company's No. 2,
Wallace farm, is down LOO feet. Their
No. is down 800 feet; No. 9 is down 800
feet; No 4, on the Sturgeon heirs farm, is
down 300 feet Greenlee. and Forst is
down 800 feet; their No. Gamble is down
1 200 feet: No. Wade, 800 feet; No. Z
Wade, 1000 feet. Guckert and Steel's No
5 is down 1000 feet. The Oakdale Com
pany, Sturgeon heirs, No. 5 is down 2,30O
feet and dry; their No. 3 is down $500 feet
and dry. The Forest Oil Company's 1. NJ.
Glenn is in the Gordon sand to-day; also
their No. 1 Charles Tipmon.
ne Forests Bad Luck.
The Citizens Gas Company is down 1 200
feet on the Rhodes farm Jennings, Guffev
& Co.'S No. is down 1000 feet, and will
get the Gordon early this week They are
down 700 feet on the W. c. Heron farm.
The Forest Oil Company has had particularly
bad luck. With one or two exceptions they
have drilled in wells which were small
and which gave promise of paving as largely
as any of their others. The reverse, how
ever, is the case. The majority of the wells
in the field are far below the average and
onlv constant shooting will bring them up
to their former caliber. Greenlee & Forst
shot their No. 1. Mevey, this afternoon, and
increased the production from so to $50 bar
rels an hour.
Mechlin, Shaffer & Co.'s No 1, on the
Collins lot back of Oakdaie, is in the Cor
don and making Is barrels an hour The
Devonian Oil Company's No. 3, Fayall, is
through the sand and dry.
Gordinier & Co. s well on the Kennedy
farm at Oakdale is through the Gordon
sand and dry in that formation. They will
drill on down to the fifth sand and expect
to reach that level next Saturday.
Carr Bros are going to spring the mys-
terry racket on the talent at their wildcat on
the Beal farm. They have boarded up the
derrick and will admit no one to the inside
but the workmen The well has been
drilled through the "Big Injun' sand
An Important Test.
George S. Martin & Co. have put in the
second string of casing at their test we'll on
the Mcconnell farm. This is also an i'm
portant test we'll, and its completion will
be watched with interest The Kanawha
Oil Company's we'll on the Wheeler farm
has its first string of casing, and in point of
location is also interesting.
Mellon & Sparks have recovered the
tools at their we'll on the Boles farm, and
are now drilling at 800 feet
The production of the Mcdonald field fell
to lower point yesterday than at any time
since the decline set in. 1t registered at
sc, 900 barrels, or 1000 less than on the
previous day.
Gauges OF the Wells.
The gauges of the wells in the Mcdonald
field Yesterday which are making 20 barrels
an hour and over were as follows:
Guffey, Jennings & Co.'S No. l Matthews
35: No. Matthew'S 60; Nos and Heron,
ITO; No. l Matthews heirs so; No. Bell, 90
Oakdale Oil Company's Nos. and Baldwin,
pany's No. l Eta Glenn, 20; No. 4 Heron S.
Patterson & Jones' No. kelso, 80. Devonian
Oil Company's Nos and Boyce 95. Forst
& Greenlee's No: Mevey, 30; No. Mevey,
20 w OOu!duu Oii SoupdnE NJ 0dInDle,
20: No. Gamble. 90: Morgan heirs No. 2
Oakdale Oil Company. 3s. S. Sturgeon, l and
2 Guffey, Galley & Murphy, 75 Production
of the field based the foregoing Sc, co.,
Stock in the field, $1,000 barrels.
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Down the Ohio.
The Georgetown we'll on the Semple
farm and owned by Dawson & c., about |
which there has been so much said in the
past week or two, suddenly fell down to !
about 35 barrels day. The reports ON the |
previous day made the production 12O bar |
rels. !
SISTERsvILLE-The johnson & Dual |
well on the Philo farm was drilled below |
the depth at which the oil sand is found in |
that field and none was developed. The |
well is a rank duster.
Captain Grace is on top of the sand with |
his venture on the Calvin farm and will |
drill it in tomorrow. The Kanawha Oil |
Company is still fishing on the Whitney
farm in the southern part Of the field.
New Gas and Gil Company.
EDENBURG-The Shippenville Oil ard
Gas Company was formed here last week