Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-29
.rrel producer. No. 2, same farm. is drill

barrel producer No 2, same farm. is drill.
ing.
Schumacher & Quigley's No. 8 on the M.
Vernon farm, situated in section 30, Is
good producer, doing 100 barrels day.
The Brown Oil Company's No. on the
Norton Reed farm, situated in section 26,
same township, is holding at go barrels No.
3 rig is up on the same farm. The same
eompany's No. 2 on the Peter Krump farm,
in section %, is 250- barrel producer, and
No. 8, same farm, is drilling. The same
company has pulled No. on the Brown
Bros. farm, situated in the same section.
| Wortz & Wilcox's No. on the d.
Hampton farm, situated on the west half OF
the northeast quarter of the northeast OF
section 10, same township, is completed and
| good for 200 barrels No. on the same
farm is drilling
The Bowling Green Gas Company is drill
ing on No. 2 on the William English farm,
situated in the east half of the northeast
quarter of section 26, same township.
| Work in Hancock County.
FINDLAY-Langmade & Blacks No. D
| on the Hugh McMurray farm, section IA,
! Allen township, Hancock county, and
marked as the David Dorsey farm, il 90
barrel producer, and the lightest yet drilled
| on the farm.
Reupert & English's last venture on the
Henry Nose farm. same section, is failure
as an oil producer.
John r. Ware & Co. have pulled the
casing and abandoned No. 1 on the Poe
| heirs farm, situated in section Il, same
| township.
The Peerless Refining Company has
completed 15-barrel producer on the John
Kempher farm, situated in section Is, Port
age township, same county.
The North Baltimore Gas Company has
just completed . poor we'll on the L. NJ
Thomas farm, in section 19. same township.
G. S. Dorney is drilling we'll on the r.
Kempher farm, situated in section 10, same
township
Ware & Bentel are drilling on well on
the H. Kohlman farm, situated in the same
section.
w. T. Robinson has pulled the casing and
abandoned No. on the G. 8. Darney farm,
situated in section 25, same township, and
has completed No. s, which is a 3O-barrel
producer, on the same farm.
The Ohio Oil Company has well drill
ing on the J. w. Taylor farm, situated in
the same section.
The Gennessee Oil Company is drilling
Findlay township.
E Wannamaker & Co.'S No. on the c.
Reninger farm, same section, is completed
and good for Is bbls. day.
Cook & Co. have a we'll drilling on the
c. Gravel tract, section II, same township.
Taylor & Co. have abandoned No. on
the Delaware addition, same township.
The Ohio Oil Company has abandoned
No. 1 on the John Boyles farm, section II,
Liberty township. The same company has
. rig up on the H. Whitmore farm, same
section. No. 9 rig on the N. Poe farm,
section 8, and No. drilling on the s.
Swartz farm, section 8.
Hardin, Seneca, wyandot and Mercer.
DUNKIRK, O.-D. Higgins has completed
a we'll on his farm situated in section Is,
Blanchard township, Hardin county, and
several miles southeast Of this place. It
was light, gas producer. Other operations
will shortly be made for crude
TIFFIN-The daily output of the Tifin
Agricultural Company's we'll on the bank
of the river in the corporation of Tifin, in
section 10, Clinton township, Seneca county,
is good for 40 barrels. G. E. Wenner has
rig up for test we'll in the corporation.
LowELL-The dry hole just completed by
Beatty & Co. on the Beatty farm, situated
in section 35, Crawford township, Wyandot
county, has not discouraged the firm, as
they are drilling on another, which is No. 8.
The Upper Sandusky Oil Company is drill
ing on No. on the Jacob Still farm, in
Salena township, same county.
CELINA-The Mackinaw Drilling Com
pany is drilling on its No. on the F. j.
Miller farm, situated in section %, Frank
lin township, Mercer county, and on the
south side of the reservoir.
Bradford Did Not Escape.
Reports from Bradford state that during
L. I'll
Penn Oil Company's rig No. 19, on the
Heating farm, on Indian creek, was struck
by lightning and destroyed. The Fran chot
Bros. lost rig on the Campbell farm
through the same agency.
Personal.
Few men in the oil regions were better
known than Captain James T. Bishop, who
died at his home, No. 1887 Forbes street,
Wednesday evening. He was 81 years of
age, and had only been in Pittsburg few
years. For some time previous to his de-
mise he had been connected with the Stand
ard Oil Company, but before that he had
been with James ANN and the American
Oil Company.
He was q pioneer in Bradford and re-
sided there for many years He was City
Controller OF that city for number of
terms.
Captain Bishop was veteran of the
Rebellion, and was one of three soldiers
who organized the first Grand Army post
at Decatur, Ill, in 1866. He was quiet,
refined, unostentatious man and courteous
gentleman. He left wife and several
daughters, one of whom is the wife of E. A.
Durham, of Bradford. The deceased was a
prominent member of the A. o. U. w. He
will be buried at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
The Origin of Petroleum.
Petroleum is one of the most widely dis
tributed substances in nature, but the ques-
tion how it was originally produced has
never yet been satisfactorily determined,
and continues problem for philosophers.
In 1889 the total production. says Light,
Heat aud Po,oer, exceeded $500, 600, 900 gal
Ions, or about 10, 900, 900 tons, aud at pence
per gallon was worth about "a, 200, 900,
while the recognition of its superior utility |
as an economical source of light, heat and |
power steadily increases.
Notwithstanding its Importance in indus |
try, the increasing abundance of the foreign |
supply and the ever widening area of pro-
duction, practical men in England continue |
to distrust its permanence, and owing to
the mystery surrounding its origin, and the |
of indications where and how to |
undertake the boring of wells they hesi |
tate to seek for it, or even to extend the
use of it whenever they would involve al
terations of existing machinery. The OBJ
]ect of this paper Is to suggest an explana-
tion of the mystery which seems calculated |
to dissipate that district, since it points to |
very abundant stores, both native and for |
eign, yet undiscovered. and even in some |
localities to daily renovated provisions of |
this remarkable oil.
How the Records Should Be Read.
The theories of its origin suggested BY |
Berthelot, Mendeleef Peck |