Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-06

| 1900 feet in their No. 6 Mertz, and on the
Kennedy farm they are drilling at 400 feet
/ Kemp q Co. have rig up and will star
! to spudding in a few days on their lumber
| yard lot at Noblestown.
The Oakdale Oil Company has located
| No. on the Gormley farm 400 feet south
west from the Mark Robb No. 1.
w. p. Rend ~ Co. have located No. on
| the Stuckmeyer farm. No. / on this prop
erty is not doing over 20 barrels day.
Fitzgibbons & Co. have commenced build
ing rig on the Josiah Walker farm, To-
Gated 400 feet west of the Fife well.
Gormley & Lehman are building a rig on
the Academy lot at Oakdale.
The Devonian Oil Company's No.
Elliott is making 40 barrels an hour. TheiI
No Elliott is due to get the Gordon to-
day.
Southwest Wildcat Wells.
There are a couple of wells nearing the
bottom in wildcat territory, three miles
southwest of Mcdonald.
Knox & Co. S No. 1, on the James Scott,
is expected to get the Gordon sand to-day.
There was report last night that it was in
the Gordon, filled up 1900 feet and shut
down. This was denied by one of the
owners.
The Wheeling Gas Company's well on the
W. J. Kelso farm should also be in the
Gordon to-day or Monday.
The Grover Cleveland Oil Company's No.
l onthe John w. Kelly farm is drilling at
400 feet. These wells are located within d
radius of half mile.
There was report last evening that the
Emery Oil Company's we'll on the Hissen
farm at Sistersyills was in and making from
Is to so barrels day.
While drilling at $50 feet on the Wad-
dell farm in the Murraysville gas district
the Gillespie brothers struck a pocket of
gas, which burned the rig to the ground.
The Pittsburg Oil Company's we'll on the
Reed farm three miles and half southwest
of Mcdonald, was reported last evening to
be through the fifth sand and very light in
that formation. They claimed to have got
ten % feet of the fifth sand. 1t will be
tubed and put to pumping.
Neville Island is through the fifth sand
and dry.
Production and Runs.
The hourly gauges yesterday were as fol-
lows: Jennings, Guffey & Co.'S No. 8 Mat
thews, 35; Heron No. 2, 25; Heron No. 4. 40;
Guffey s. Queens Nos. and Wetmore, so;
No. 1 Samuel Wetmore, 40: Patterson Il
Jones' No. 8 Kelso, 20; Devonian Oil Com
pany's Nos. 1 and Boyce, So: Oakdale Oil
Company's No. Morgan heirs, 80; Nos. . and
8 Baldwin, IS; Nos. and Wallace, 35 Guffey,
6: Guffev 4 Queen and j. Nj. Guffey's, 30:
Brown Bros. s Robinson's No. McMurray,
25 production, $1,000; stock in the field, a. 500.
The runs OF the Southwest Pennsylvani ia
Pipe Line Company from Mcdonald Wednes-
day were 35 $40; outside of Mcdonald, 1855.
National Transit runs were 40,3iS; ship
ments, 29,90s. Buckeye runs, 35.44; ship
ments. 81, ,525. Macksburg runs, $40. Eureka
runs, 6,469; shipments, 1,442. Southern Pipe
Line shipments, 1s,540. New York Transit
Company shipments, 81, AS barrels.
Yesterdays Market Features.
The big well reported yesterday morning
was too much for the market, and it closed
nearly a cent lower than the opening.
March started at 601ac, advanced &c, broke
to and closed at 5g34c, with light selling. Re-
fined was marked down q point at New
York, but was unchanged elsewhere. Daily
average runs, latest posted, 10l 1872 daily av-
erage shipments, 74,032 Clearances were
81. 900 barrels.
OIL CITY. Feb 5-National Transit certifi-
Gates opened at 605sc; highest, 601ac; lowest,
5915c; closed. 59c; sales 127, 900 barrels; clear
ances, 246 900 barrels; shipments, los S9l bar
rels: runs LOG, ,342 barrels.
BRApFoRD, Feb. 5.-National Transit certif-
Gates opened at 6s15c; closed at 59a4c; high
est, 6O14c; lowest, 5934c; clearances, 10000
barrels.
NEW York, Feb. 5-Petroleum opened
steady declined nc ON small sales, then be-
came dull and remained so until the close;
Pennsylvania oil, spot sales none; March
option opening, 60c; highest, 60c; lowest,
59Lc: closing, 5954c. Lima oil, no sales; total
sales 10000 barrels.