Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-30
DRY IN THE GORDON.
Two Wells Southwest of Mcdonald
Barren in That Stratum.
BIG GASSER EAST OF OAKDALE.
Sistersville Runs Are Averaging Over 10
600 Barrels Day.
NEW BEREA GRIT POOL MAY BE OPENED


There were few interesting Development
in the oil fields yesterday. Two wells
which had be en- showing for small producer.
in the Gordon sand on Saturday proved tc
be valueless in that stratum.
Sistersville is the point at which the
great activity of year ago has now been
concentrated, although there is liable to be
a sudden squirt at Undercliffe, three miles
northeast of Sharpsburg, around Patterson
& Sohn's Kessler farm producer.
There are from 15 to 20 wells being drilled
on the Pinhook anti-clinal, east and south
of Verona on the Allegheny Valley Rail-
| road, for gas, and there is string of test
! wells going down across the northwestern
part of Allegheny county. Outside of these
| points there is very little new drilling be-
ing done
An Ohio operator, Mr.. Elyea, who was in
Pittsburg yesterday, stated that few
strings of tools are running or rigs going up,
except in the Woodville field, north of
Lima
In the Mcdonald field the big wells
seemed to have taken a drop on the gauge
pole on Sunday. There are now only two
wells reported as doing 20 barrels an hour.
These are the Royal Gas Company's No. 1
Mark Robb, and Greenlee & Forst's No. 6
Marshall. The Forest Oil Company's No. 2
Gregg was reported at the Offices Of the
company to be making only IL barrels an
hour. and the Sinclair Oil Company's Nos.
and 2 on the Kirk farm, in the Meise
hollow, had fallen off to less than 20 an
hour, and both were dropped from the list
of big ones.
Notwithstanding these declines the esti-
mated production of the field is given as
1S, 600 barrels, but this is due to the fact
that number of the old wells which were
down to 8 and barrels an hour were shot
and brought up to 15 and 18 barrels an hour.
The Campbell Well Declining.
The Forest Oil Company's No Z, on the
Mrs Campbell farm, in the Meise Gordon
sand pool, south of Willow Grove, which
came in at 35 barrels an hour Saturday, was
doing from 1S to 20 barrels an hour vester-
day. 1t is declining much quicker than the
other big wells which were struck in that
locality.
The No. on the GLADDEN. farm located
southwest of Mcdonald and belonging to
Greenlee & Forst, was failure in the Cor
don sand and was in the fourth yesterday.
They will drill it to the fifth.
The Devonian Oil CompanY's No. on
the W. B. Moorhead farm in the same re-
gion was almost dry in the Gordon and is
being rut down to the lower sands
Greenlee & Forst's No. 2 on the Noble
heirs farm was cased Saturday. Their No.
Z on the Marshall farm, south of Mobiles
town, is down 600 feet and they intend to
,%o NJ th IL for = 81,
Meise hollow, this week.
The Moore Oil Company's test we'll on
the Oak Ridge Coal Company's property,
located about half mile east of Oakdale,
which was dry in the Gordon sand, has
struck big vein of gas in the fourth sand.
1t was the intention of the owners to drill it
down to the fifth, but now they are con-
sidering the advisability of stopping the drill
and selling the gas to local consumers.
The Forest Oil Company's well on the
Devine farm, In the extreme northeastern
part of the McCurdy field, was reported last
evening to be almost through the fourth
sand. ...
Patterson s. Sohn's well on the Kessler
farm, at Undercliffe, was reported yesterday
to be doing from $50 to 275 barrels day.
Big Runs From sistersviIle.
SIsTERsvILLE-The pipe line runs from
this field are surprising even the operators
in it, and those who claim to be most
There are many who have been crying down
the field, and presaging that the bottom
would soon fall out of it. They cannot get
around the fact that the pipe lines are hand
ling a large amount of Sistersville oil. The
bears on the field based their judgment on
the rapid decline of the wells in the town
which were pounded down in bunch, and
could scarcely be expected to hold out for
any length of time.
For Friday, Saturday and Sunday the
runs from the field aggregated 31,O6S bar
rels, or an average of 10, 356 barrels day,
which is more than half the production of
Mcdonald, and from less than one-sixth the
number of wells This is a remarkably big
showing for field in which none OF the
wells have made over ], 900 barrels a day,
and which has been so recently developed.
Apple, Mercer, Patty & Co. expect to get
into the sand this week at their No on the |
Ephram Wells farm, below the town, and
they have the rigs up and will soon COM
mence drilling at Nos. and on the same
farm.
Apple, Mercer & Elyea's No. 1 on the
Michael farm, half mile southeast of the |
Wells farm, may reach the sand this week. |
j. w. Shay & Co. had rig, the rods, |
tubing and cable located on the Mariner |
destroyed by fire Saturday even
ing. While they were cleaning out it made |
an open flow and in moment the rig was |
in flames
Nav Be a New Pool
There seems to be possibility that new
Berea grit pool may be opened up near
Corning, o. 1t is located 80 miles south
east of Lancaster, O., and about so miles due |
west of Marietta. There are now two pro-
ducing wells drilled, in each of which an un-
usually amount of good sand was found.
Mercer & Co.. of Pittsburg, have
started to drill third well.
The GAINESVILLE Natural Gas and Fuel
Company, in which A. j. Mercer is one of
the heaviest stockholders, expects to COM
plete a well this week on the Fink farm, IN
The Fairfield, O., county gas district. They
have already put down several wells, each
Of which has had pressure of 700 pounds
and better to the square inch. They are
to pipe the gas to GAINESVILLE,
distance of Sc miles
Edward Crocker, the Assistant Superin-
tendent of the Forest Oil Company, and
his family have returned from Atlantic
City.
The Gauges.
The production of Mcdonald was 5000 YES
erday, the same as the day before. The
hourly gauges of the larger wells at McDon-
I'D yesterday were as follows; Greenlee &
Forsts No. Marshall, 90; Royal Gas Com
oany's No. Mark Robh, 25. The estimated
prod uction was 5000; stock in the field,
q, 600.
Runs and Shipments Saturday.
National Transit Company runs were
3, ,l26; shipments. s419.
Southwest Pennsylvania runs from Nc
1onaId were % Q2Q Onteida of Mcnopold |