Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-03
THREE BUTLER WELLS.
II undred-Foot Territory to the Front
With Fair Producers.
M'DONALD GOES STILL LOWER.
Jennings & Co.'S Myers Farm Well Near
Undercliff Is q buster.
NEWS FROM SISTERSyILLE FIELD

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sand yesterday where oil was expected and
all of them were northwest of Pittsburg,
| three of tlem in Butler and one in Alle-
gheny county.
No new wells were reported in the
Mcdonald or Sistersville fields The esti-
| mated production of the Mcdonald pool
fell to II, 800 barrels, which is lower than it
has been since it reached the keystone of its
output, one year ago this month.
Unless the wells now producing in that
! field hold up much better than the average
fifth sanders and the first crop in the Nc
Donald district did, there is strong proba-
! bilIty that the downward course of the pro-
duction may be very rapid
Wildwood and Washington dropped like
a crow to a cornfeld, when they began to go
down, and Mcdonald can scarcely be rated
as an exception. II was remarkable field
ON the up grade, but its big wells declined
faster in proportion to their size than those
in many other places where they did not
'' About o It the @ only part Of the field in which
| there is much interest at present is in the
extreme northeastern part of what was
originally known as the McCnrdy district.
There the big well of the Forest Oil Com
pany on the Clever farm has aroused con-
siderable activity, and q dozen wells are
now being drilled on the strength of it. In
other parts of the field few new wells are
being started or will be unless something
big turns up.
Around Venice number of fourth sand
ers are being put down, and few wells in
that locality have failed to get either oil or
gas.
Three Butler County Producers.
The Butler county wells which were
finished up yesterday belong to Schlegel,
Lentz & Go. Two them are in what is
known as the Garvin pool located five
miles south of Evans City. This pool was
opened over a year ago by Schlegel, Lentz
& Co. who drilled the first good we'll in
the pool. 1t is on the Ben Garvin farm.
Their No. on the Ben Garvin farm has
been finished up and is good for 100 barrels
a day, and their No. 1 on the Gardner farm
will make about 75-barrel WELL In the
same locality they are starting well on
the Vandervort farm.
Two miles south of Brownsville they
have completed their No. on the Crttch-
low farm, and it is good for 70 barrels
day. They are also rigging up on the Dun
bar farm, a mile south of the Critchlow,
and also at No. 2 in the Gardner, in the
Garvin pool
Jennings & Co.'S well on the Myers
farm, which is located q mile northeast of
Patterson & Sohn's Kessler farm producer,
was Yesterday drilled through the third
sand or rather where it should have been,
and was pronounced a rank failure.
Progress of Mcdonald Ventures.
MCDoNALD-Schlegel, Lentz & Co. are
in the 1OO-foot at their No. 2 on the Walker
farm, in the Fife pool.
n. LII
we'll in on Wittengale, and one on the e.
lott yesterday, but they were disappointed.
Bettman & Watson will have a couple In
on the Wittengale the last of this or the
first of next week.
The Florence Oil Company's No. 6 on
the Robb heirs farm, south of Willow
Grove, will make about 100 barrels a day
from the Gordon sand. They are starting
No. 2 on the Miller farm, south of the Meise
pool.
In the northwestern McCurdy district
Robson g Stewart are down !, 200 feet in
No Mccoy and $50 feet in No. on the
same farm.
Finishing Sistersville Well.
STANDARDIZATION & Co, were
putting the last casing in their we'll on the
north of the Keener heirs property.
The Forsythe Oil Company is on top of
the sand in No. on the Thistle farm and
they are rigging up at No. TO-
The Greenlee and Forst Sale.
The announcement of the sale of por-
tion OF Greenlee & Forst's property in the
Mcdonald field to the Tidal Oil Company
for from S35O,00O to 100000 occasioned
very little comment yesterday as the deal
has been hanging fire for months, and it was
known to all the oil operators, that negotia
tions for the sale of the prop
erty were on foot 1t seemed
to be the general impression, however. that
more than the amount named would be
realized, for taking the production sold as
5000 barrels and the price obtained as
$780, 200, it gives only $133 33 per barrel,
which is considered low figure even at the
present market price of oil.
The Gauges Wednesday.
The production of Mcdonald was 1850
yesterday, 500 less than the day before.
Stock in field 5000.
The runs from the Sistersville field were
1l,09S barrels on Tuesday.
Runs and Shipments Tuesday.
The runs of the National TRANSIT Company
were O.l7s; shipments, 25,155. Southwest
runs from Mcdonald were IA 1l3; outside
of Mcdonald, 33l3; total, 17,426. Buckeye
Pipe Line runs from the Macksburg field,
300; shipments, $50; Buckeye runs of
Lima oil, 30, 354: shipments, 80, PSI; Eureka
Pipe Line runs, Il, 794; shipments, l,210; South