Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-06
MORE WELLS DOWN.
Greenlee & FOrst's No. 2 GLADDEN. Is
Making 20 Barrels an Hour.
SEVERAL OTHER BIG SURPRISES.
The Reed Well Finally Reported to Be Very
Light in the Fifth.
GOOD WE'LL ON TIE MARTHA WRIGHT

the list of those gushers which have been
making 20 barrels an hour or more. These
were the Royal Gas Company's No. Mary
Robb, and Guffey, Murphy & Galey's Nos.
/ and 2 OH the Sam Sturgeon
farm, and several of the other
wells which are still doing over
20 barrels an hour showed heavy decline.
Notwithstanding this the production was
held up by some of the wells of smaller
calber, and only dropped to 1000 barrels,
decline OF 800 barrels. During the day
there were a number of wells drilled into
the sand which will, no doubt, increase the
estimate for this morning.
A we'll which attracted more attention
and was the subject of more comment than
its neighbors yesterday was Greenlee q
Forst's No. on the GLADDEN. farm. 1t is
located about a mile southwest of McDon-
aid on a As degree line and is only 4JO feet
north of west from the Wheeling Gas Com
pany's No. 2 on the w. b. Moorhead prop
erty. The sand was reached in the Glad
den early yesterday morning and it instantly
started off at 20 barrels an hour. 1t kept
this gait all day, and was not drilled any
deeper after it commenced to flow.
The same parties No. 1, on this farm, is
filled with Junk caused by running the tools
on top of shot, and its capacity cannot be
accurately gauged, although it was small
natural well in the Gordon sand, and was
drv in the fifth. The result at the No. 2
GLADDEN. will be an incentive for further
operating southwest of Mcdonald, and al
ready Greenlee & Forst have determined to
drill two more wells on their GLADDEN. prop
erty.
The Wheeling Gas Company is still FISH
ing in its Nos. and on the W. B. Moor
head.
The Martha Wright a Well.
The Forest Oil Company's No. on the
Martha Wright farm was drilled into the
fifth sand last evening and started Oft at 20
barrels an hour This we'll is located just
east of north from Oakdale and almost
within the confines of the old McCurdy
field For several days it was strong
gasser in the Gordon, and this fact tended
to interfere with the drilling.
Kennedy, Gardiner & Fitzsimmons' No.
5, on the Mertz farm, in southwest Nc
Curdy, was only drilled one bit yesterday.
1t is now three bits in the sand, and yester
dav afternoon it made one 30-barrel flow.
The pay is not expected before they are
seven or eight bits in the rock.
It was the intention of the owners of the
Fife well to drill it into the sand yester-
day and preparations were made to do so,
new cable would be necessary and the tools
were not run. This well has been showing
strong from the start and has been slowly
but steadily increasing.
The Mark Robb No 1 of Guffey, Queen &
]. M. Guffey was drilled short time yes
terday, and, instead of increasing, as ex-
pected, it declined to IS barrels an hour.
McMurray Well Being Watched.
Brown, Robson & Co. IS well on the Nc
Murray property, at Noblestown, was still
surrounded by crowds of spectators and
Ieasers yesterday who stood ankle deep in
the snow and watched it from early morn
ing until late in the afternoon. The ma
jorty agreed that it was a good big well
and was making anywhere from % to 80 bar
rels an hour. 1t was not agitated yesterday.
The country to the south and south
west of this we'll was overrun by leasers all
day, each anxious to convince the doubling
rustic who owned the soil that he could put
a well down quicker and get more oil to the
square inch than any other man in the
State The farmers without exception have
suddenly assumed an air of Importance and
are waiting for the highest bidder to come
along before they tie up their farms.
Greenlee & Forst secured 80 odd acres of
the Marshall farm, living few rods south
of Noblestown, for $4,000, or at the rate of
about S10O an acre. Three weeks ago Mr..
Marshall could not find an operator who
would agree 70 drill well on this farm free
of bonus. Now it looks as good as any in
the field.
Gordon Oil in the Mankedick.
The Willow Grove Oil Company's ven-
ture, on the Mankedick farm, located on top
of the hill, about 1,5OO feet southeast from
- rbo &.
was the only well in the field which ever
got any oil in the old Gantz sand. From
this rock it filled up and ran over, some
times as much as 10 or IL barrels day.
The Gordon sand was reached early yes
terday, when the well made flow and put
out from II to Is barrels. AT noon it put
25 barrels into the tank and almost as much
more got away at the casing head. They
were compelled to shut down at five feet in
the sand on account of bad bailer. The
sand is soft and mushy and only partially
white Most of the oil which was thrown
out at noon yesterday was that which came
from the Gantz and had been standing in
the we'll for some time and mixed with salt
water
This we'll is located almost on direct
line from the McMurray on the northeast to
the Moorhead on the southwest, and is
probablya mile and a quarter from the
McMurray well.
f. M. Aiken & Co.'S No. 2. on the Pat
terson lot at Willow Grove has been fin
ished up, and is good tor 175 barrels day.
A dozen new rigs have been built south
east of Willow Grove within as many DAYS,
and it will only be few days more before
they are rigged up and as many strings of
tools running.
viii Make a Producer
Stafford, Clark & Phillips started to drill
their well on the Faraday lot in Willow
Grove into the Gordon sand yesterday. For
several days it has been shut down ON top
of this formation. When the bit was short
distance in the rock the well began to flow,
and in ten minutes it put % barrels of oil
into the tank. Later reports from it last
evening were to the effect that it was show
ing for big Gordon well.
The Kyle Oil Company's No on the A.
Wettengel farm back of Oakdale was fin
ished up Yesterday, and will make about $50
barrels day from the fifth sand. They got
&c feet of this formation.
Kemp 81 Co. shot their No. 3. on the
Wade farm at Mcdonald in the Gordon
sand yesterday. 1t was dry in the fifth,
but bad developed sufficient gas in the
fourth sand for a few days to almost COM
pletely shut off the oil which the well had
been making from the Gordon. Their No.
on this farm is light in the Gordon and is
being drilled to the fifth. Their Wade No.
5 is down ], 300 feet.
Boggs &. Curtis shot their we'll in the
schoolhouse reserve property at Laurel
Hill yesterday. 1t is one Of the farthest
western wells at this point. There was
nice response to the shot, but that was all.
No flows followed, although it had not
bridged over 1t was being cleaned out last
evening.