Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-26
OUTPUT GOING DOWN.
No Big Wells Completed to Keep the
Production Up.
GAS STRUCK ON THE MILLERFARM.
The Ewing Well, in Northeast McCurdy
Filled With Oil.
THE NORTH PENN TO BE DISSOLVED

uTOpDGu 10 CU,OUO DdIIClo fCSbCiuoy, anu
as there were no wells of any consequence
brought in it is probable that it will be
lower for to-day. The stock in the field is
also down to g., 900 barrels.
Guffey & Queens No. 2 on the Wetmore
farm, was making 80 barrels an hour strong
yesterday. Until Saturday it had averaged
between $500 and 8, 800 barrels of oil day.
Gufey, Murphy & Galey's No. 2, on the
A. Wettengel farm, back of Noblestown,
reached the fifth sand yesterday morning
and will make about 100-barrel day well
from the Gordon and the fifth. Their
No 5 on this farm should be
in the fifth sand this afternoon.
Guffey & Queens No. 1 on the Samuel
Wetmore farm is in the Gordon sand and
has good showing of gas.
Heron farm, Just west of Noblestown,
was 20 feet in the fifth sand yesterday after
noon, and had made one six-inch
flow. The same company's No.
1 Sam Sturgeon OF "hurry-up," northeast
of Oakdale is in the sand and making about
240 barrels dav. They have finished rig
for No. on the Agnes Kemp farm, also for
No. James Walker, and are rigging up at
the Jane McVey No. 1, Jane McGill No.
and No. John Med. Glenn.
The Walker Well Is OF.
Galley Bros No. 1, on the Walker farm,
southwest 1 1000 feet from Guffey & Queen s
No. 2 Wetmore, had averaged % barrels an
hour for the 80 hours ending yesterday
morning at o'clock. This well came in
Saturday, and for the first few hours made
40 barrels an hour.
The Wheeling Gas Company has shot its
well on the Cook lot, near the railroad sta
tion at Mcdonald, in the fifth sand. 1t has
not been cleaned out, and an estimate of
its improvement cannot be made. They in
tend to shoot it in the Gordon this week.
The same company is fishing for the tools at
800 feet in its No. Moorhead, and at No.
3 Moorhead they are fishing for a bailer at
1900 feet. Their we'll on the John George
farm near Primrose, is down 1,500 feet
The Royal Gas Company's No. on the
Moore farm at Venice is down 1000 feet.
Their No. on the Barnett farm, located
one mile south of the Moore, Is drilling at
900 feet. The same company's No. 2 on the
Patterson farm, located 1000 feet south of
the Moore. is through the Gordon and
fourth sands, with a very light showing of
oil in each. They are each being drilled to
the fifth sand.
The Northfeld Oil Company, which is
the producing end of the Royal Gas Com
pany, has abandoned its No. 2 on the Saut-
ers & Patterson property, with the tools
stuck in the hole at !, 200 feet. They are
moving the rig and are putting down new
hole.
Strong Gasser on the Miller.
Mcconnell & Co. have struck a strong
pressure of gas in the 50-foot at their well
on the DR.. Miller farm, a mile south of
Laurel Hill. They have been unable to
drill owing to the gas.
The Illinois Oil Company shot its well on
the blacksmith lot back of Mcdonald sta
tion and it responded with nice flow. The
Peoples Gas Company has slightly i'm
proved its No. 129, on the Miller farm. by
shooting.
Kennedy, Thompson & Co. s well, on the
Elmira lot, is down and good for 80 barrels
q dav Greenlee & Forst's Nos 4 and s.
on the Miller property, are each down
900 feet Kemp & Co.'S No. Wade, is
making 100 barrels day. The well on the
school house reserve property is in the
Gordon sand
Westhead & Co. are drilling on top of the
fifth sand on the Mcfarland property.
Todd & Co. have commenced to rig up at
the Elliott trestle.
the Gordon sand to-day at its No. 1, on the
Elliott farm, west of developments. The
Real Estate Oil Company's No. 1, on the
Real Rstate property in McCurdy, should
be in the fifth to-day. They have started
to spud in No. 2.
w. P. Rend's No. 1. on the J. D. Ssuters
farm, a mile south of the w. B. Moorhead
No 1, is being spudded in.
Guckert & Steele's No. on the Burchi-
nal lot at Willow Grove is through the
fifth, and good for so or 60 barrels day.
1t will probably be put down to the fifth.
Patterson & Jones No. 3 Shaffer in south
west McCurdy is in and making about II
barrels an hour.
Robson & Stewards No. 1, on the Nc
Cloy farm, in northeast ncCurdy, may be
drilled deeper into the eand to-day, as the
tank which they are building at the well is
in the sand. Robison's well, on the Ewing
farm, 500 feet to the west, which was a
strong gasser just on top of the sand and was
shut down, has filled up with oil.
Will Absorb the North Penn.
The North Penn Oil Company, which has
been under the management of Mr. Ed
wards, with headquarters at Warren, Pa,
for several years, is soon to be merged into
the Union and the Midland Oil Companies
The deal is to be consummated about Feb
ruary 1. A large block of territory
and many producing wells are owned
by the North Penn, and this will be
about evenly divided between the Union
and the Midland. Mr.. Mckinney, of the
Midland, who lives in Titusville, will have
charge of the property in the vicinity of
Warren, Pa.
Thirty-Five Barrels an Hour,
Late last evening information was re-
ceived in Pittsburg to the effect that Ken
nedy, Fitzgibbons & Bolts No 6, on the
Moore farm, located in southwest McCurdy.
had reach the fifth sand and was making 81
barrels an hour. The Moore farm is lust
west of the Leonard Shaffer and south of
the Wright farm. The well brought in yes-
terday does not open up any great extent of
new territory.
The Hourly Gauges
Guffey, Jennings & Co. No Matthews. IS:
No. Heron, 80; No. 2 Matthews heirs. 25:
Oakdale Oil Company's Nos. land Bald.
win, IS; Nos and Wallace, 30; Kelso No. S.
Patterson s. Co., 20; kelso No. 8, 40; Devonian
Oil Company's l and . Boyce, 65: Moraan
heirs No. 9, Oakdale Oil Company, IS: sam
/ and 2, Guffey, Galley & Murphy
81; Forst & Greenlee's Nos. 8 and Gamble,
%; Royal Gas Company's No. 2 M. Robb, so;
Guffey, Queen & Co.'S Nos. l and wetmore
100; Galley Bros No. Walker, Is EstI;nated
$1,000; stock in field, 81, ,OOO
Runs for Friday.
National Transit Company runs, 3I.os7:
shipments, 65, 400: Macksburg Pipe Line Com
pany runs, 100; Buckeye Pipe Line Company
runs, 80, l25; shipments. 1896; Eureka Pine
Line Company runs, 6,2l6; shipments. 2.4iO:
Southern Pipe Line Company, shipments
Is, ,355; Southwestern Pennsylvania Pipe Line
runs from Mcdonald for Saturday. 3I.lS7:
of Mcdonald, 1854; runs for Friday
s., SIS
Yesterdays Market Festures.