Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-29
REVIVED WITH ASHOT.
The McNurray Well Was Making so
Barrels an Hour Yesterday.
BIG BOON IN THE PRODUCTION.
There Are Thirty-Six Strings Of Tools
Running at Harmony.
OUTPUT OF THE FIELD $500 BARRELS

The resources of the Mcdonald field are
astonishing its most virulent traducers.
There have never been so many bears on
any territory, and it is safe to say there
never was q field in which they have been
so regularly and persistently fooled.
Even the most sanguine hopes OF the men
| who have been booming the field from the
| start have been surpassed.
The result of the work at the old wells
Saturday was manifest in the guages yester-
day morning. The production, which was
| only 1900 barrels Saturday morning, was
| 29 900 yesterday, an increase of 1000 barrels.
Brown, Robinson & Co.'S well on the McMur-
ray property, a few hundred feet east OF No
blestown, was the biggest surprise OF the day,
It was shot with 20 quarts OF giyoerinie me- SAT at
sponse it started to flow. and in the ensuing
six hours it put out nearly 500 barrels. 1t
continued to flow all night, and yester,
IL naS as mdph,ee doing 50 @ barrels an hour: Pre-.
vious to putting in the shot the well
had been pumped and relieved OF several
hundred barrels Of salt water when haH mornn fnn
sands. This water it is now believed was
holding the oil back.
Belief That Pool Exists.
The showing made by the well yesterday
only confirms the belief of many operators
that there is pool of oil somewhere in the
immediate peighborhood, but in which d.
rection only the drill will tell. Wells are
now going down all around it, and some Of
them will undoubtedly strike the right spot
unless the McMurray we'll should prove TO
The Oakdale Oil Company's No. 2. on the
John Wetmore farm, which the owners be-
lieved would be failure. was also making
20 barrels an hour yesterday morning owing
to deeper drilling.
The estimated production of the field Suns
day morning complied from gauges was 2s,-
Jennings, Guffey & Co.'S No. s Matthews, 30;
Heron No. L. 4O Matthews heirs No. 2, 20:
Gnunney n ana queens SNs NO Samust Nos "e'm0 and
Boyce, 45; Oakdale Oil Companys No. MOI
gan heirs, 20; Nos. Q and Baldwin, 80: Nos.
and Wallace, 30: Forest Oil Company's No.
NJ. Wright, 55; Guffey, Murphy & Co.'S Nos.
l and 2 Sam Sturgeon, 30; Oakdale Oil Com
pany's No. 2 John Wetmore, 80; Brown Bros
Robson & Co.'s No. McMurray, 50; produc-
tion, $4,000; stock in the field, $1,000.
Plenty Of Work at Harmony.
HARMoNY-The production of this and the
Zelienople field is now $500 barrels day
and on the increase Operations are more
active than they have ever been before, and
when spring opens the prospects are that
the work in the field will be doubled. There
are now 36 strings of tools running, and
from u to 10 new rigs being built.
Sutton, Hooks & Co. No. on the Schott
farm is due in the sand to-day. They are
farm. Their No. Schott is making 250 bar
rels day, and No. l Meyer is doing 200 a
day. No. Meyer is being rigged up, and
they have completed rig for No. on the
same farm, also for No. Neeley.
Guckert & Steele are about the heaviest
operators in the field. Their No Scheel is
ls0 barrels ThsE aay baEs ae nsSsd no
a rig for No. Schiever. No. Schiever has
a fishing job at !, 200 feet; No. is in and
making 90 barrels day. They are spudding
IN in their arI.o; No Moyer' ana nave rig up Tor
Lockwood & Co.'s No. 1 Meyer has been
shot and tubed and Is making 125 barrels
their No. on this farm. No. 2 PETER, be-
feet.
S. E. Neice & Co. are spudding in their No.
so barrels an hour. They are fishing for the
tools in the gas sand at No. Schiever.
Fishing for Tools in the Sand
At their No. PETER they have string of
tools stuck in the sand. No. is on top of
the sand, and is due to get the pay to-day or
They have had bad luck at No.
5 PETER where they have fishing job at
L 100 feet.
Cunningham & Alexander have . rig COM
pleted for No. l Hemph1ll. Their No. G.
Holloman is through the sand and dry.
Campbell & Westerman's No. Frederick
is being cleaned out after shot and is
showing for q fair well. Their No. 5
Frederick is down 400 feet. No. Frederick
is making 60 barrels day, and No. which
came in last week is doing 200 barrels a day.
Donaghy & Co. are still fishing for a string
of tools in their No. on the NJ. Holloman.
They have finished rig for No. l Joseph
Stauffer.
J. o. A. Kennedy's No. Eicholtz is doing
$50 barrels day. He has a rig up for No. 5
on the same farm.
Coast Bros. No. !, on the Lew Schiever, is
through the sand and dry.
P. Golden & Co.'S No. Schiever, which
came in last week, is doing rs barrels day,
and they have rig up for No. 8.
Bettman & Co.'s No.2 NJ. holloman is MAX
ing 100 barrels a day, and their No. l Gett-
man 90 barrels day.
Cunningham & Neice's No. Q Schiever is
plugged in the sand.
Giles & Gibson's No. Stauffer is down 900
feet.
A 25-Barreler at Evans City.
Best & Co.'s No. 2 Schiever is down LOO
feet The Evans City "Dude" Oil Company's
No. i Eichenauer is good for only % barrels
day.
Stewart Co.'s No. Brenner is through
the sand and dry.