Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-14
M'D0NALD'S OUTPUT.
1t Has Produced Ten and a Half Mill
ions in Eighteen Months.
SOME BIG FIRMS IN THE FIELD.
The Royal Gas Companys No. l Mark Robb
Is Still Holding Up
NO CHANGE IN THE PRODUCTION

There was little change yesterday in the
wells in the Mcdonald field. There were
none which were reported to have reached
the sand, although few were on top of it.
The field in the last few months has lost
much of its grip, but this fact does not keep
it from still making a gallant fight for the
supremacy. 1t is gradually losing ground
and may soon succumb.
The Mcdonald field had produced up un-
til August the sum of 10, 420, 277 barrels of
oil. This amount can scarcely be compre-
hended when it is remembered that only a
short time ago there were less than 10 000, 900
barrels in the stocks above ground.
The first run was made in the Mcdonald
field by the Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe
Line on January II, 1891. 1t was from the
near Mcdonald. which was drilled by the
Royal Gas Company.
After this run they slowly. very slowly.
increased until the middle of the summer
and the owners reaped the benefit.
The great bulk of the OH TAX en- from the Nc
Donald field has been produced by few firms.
Guffey, Jennings & Co. have produced al
most 100000 barrels; the Forest Oil Com
pany has taken out over 100000 barrels;
Greenlee & Forst comes in with something
in the neighborhood OF ,0O0. 900, and the Oak
dale Oil Company is not backward in stating
that it placed over 100000 barrels to its
credit
Then Fred Hayes and Jimmy Garland
did q big business in the producing line,
and they were closely followed by Guckert
& Steele.
The Old Cook Well
On August a. 1891, the Wheeling Gas Com
pany struck its big we'll on the Cook lot a
few yards west of Mcdonald station, and it
Started off at l25 barrels an hour. On Au-
gust co. in the same year, the well took fire,
a MI hefo fho fan nj
entaileo loss of nearly $4,000 on its own.
ers.
The wells on the list of those in gauges
were unchanged Yesterday, although there
was d change in their output. The Sinclair
Oil Company's Nos. and 2, on the Kirk
farm, were reported to have dropped from
IS to 30 barrels an hour.
According to the gauge poles, Greenlee &
Forst's No. on the McMurray farm had
fallen from 81 to As barrels an hour: the Peo-
pies Gas Company's Nos. h6 and l4s had
dropped from 25 to 20 an hour, and the Royal
Gas Companv's No. on the Mark Robb farm
was doing 55 instead of go an hour as re-
ported the day before.
Hussler, Davis & Bott expect to get into
the sand Monday or Tuesday in their No.
on the Boyce farm in the southern part OF
the McCurdy field.
big lot of new work in the field. Its
No. the w. B. Moorhead farm,
south of Mcdonald. was reported by
the the firm to be = due due y Monday Their Their
end OF McCurdy is in and good for 60 barrels
a DAY. They have started to build rig for
No. on the j. w. Robb, No. ON the j. II.
Robb, No. on the Wettengel, and they have
located three others, but have not yet
started to build the rigs. The Devonian
started yesterday to spud in its No on the
Mrs. Mertz farm, in southern McCurdy.
Fitzgibbons, HAIRY & Co. are starting to
drill at No. 6, on the Walker farm, in the
western part Of the field, and at No. !, on
the Fisher farm.
The Forest Oil Company expects to drill in
its No. on the John McEwen farm to-mor-
row. They are rigging up No. b on the John
McEwen property and at No. 9 on the W. G.
Heron farm.
The production of Mcdonald was 2O,5OO
yesterday. The hourly gauges OF the larger
wells at Nc Donald yesterday were as follows:
Sinclair Oil Company's Nos. and 9, 80;
Greenlee & Forst's No McMurray, Is: Peo-
ple's Gas Company's Nos LAG and 14s, 20;
Royal Gas Company's No. Mark Robb IS.
The estimated production was 2O,5O0; stock
in the field, 1900.
Runs and Shipments.
National Transit Company runs on the 18th
were 35, ,339; shipments, 9,373.
Southwest Pennsylvania runs from Nc
Donald were 23,957. Outside of Mcdonald,
6643. Buckeye runs, Macksburg division,
3,4l9; shipments. none. Shipments from the
Lima division, August II, AZ, 2,496; on August
were 5,24s; shipments, 1859. Southern Pipe
Line shipments l6625. New York Transit
shipments, Is, 40l.
The Tidewater Pipe Line runs yesterday
were 452l: total, AZ, 355. Shipments, none;
total, 81, $685. average, 1924.