Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-05
WANTPART-OFTHEO OIL.
Coal Owners at Willow Grove Ask an
Eighth for Right of Way.
ONE GORDON SANDER FINISHED.
Three Wells in the Fifth and Showing for
Small Producers.
NEW WORK UNDER WAY At M'DoNALD


Grove. 1t is not SO much an indemnity
against loss by accidents. from the gas which
might escape from the we'll, as it is a royalty
for passing through coal that is asked
for by the coal operators.
Henry Miller, who is ope rating for oil IN
the vicinity of Willow Grove, and is also
the Superintendent for the Mansfield Oil
Company, said yesterday that the coal
company demands one-eighth of all the oil
from well which is drilled through its
coal. Heretofore the oil operators have
gone ahead with their wells, but have
appeared in court when summoned and
given bonds. but this has al
ways been in territory where
the coal was not being mined. Around
Willow Grove they are somewhat timorous
about drilling through the coal, as the
miners have invariably dug into the wells
and filed them full of junk where satisfac-
tory arrangements had not been made be.
tween the oil and the coal operator.
In this way the coal men have made it more
profitable for the oil men to shut down and
fight the case legally rather than by going
ahead, and probably being brought up with
short haul by plugged hole, and where
the wells are only short distance above
where the coal outcrops, and the owners
persist in going through the few inches of
coal that lies below. The coal owners are
reported to be making prepa rations to go
down beside the wells with shaft, cut into
the wells and plug them with junk unless
the oil men settle.
Muddy Roads Cause Delay.
There are a great many wells in the south
west fields which are shut down because the
contractors cannot get coal to the boilers
on account of the bad roads. Gas lines
traverse the Mcdonald field IN almost every
direction, and where it is possible gas is
used for fuel Operators do not look for
better roads until next month, and conse-
quently few of them will attempt to start
wildcat wells for some time.
There was one good Gordon sand we'll re-
ported yesterday. 1t is Guffey & Co. S No.
8 on the Mary Sturgeon farm, and is located
few hundred feet east of the Southwest
Pennsylvania Pipe Line pump station at
Willow Grove. Yesterday afternoon it was
making 16 barrels an hour. The same
party's No. IL, on the Sam Sturgeon farm,
is down about 1000 feet.
The Forest Oil Company's No. 2 on the
John M. Glenn was drilling in the bottom
of the fifth sand yesterday and is still show
ing for light well. They are still fishing
on top of the sand in No. Eta Glenn.
Schlegel, LEM & Fried are drilling four
wells on the western edge of developments
and in the neighborhood of the Fife farm,
on which Hirsch & Co. Unexpectedly struck
a well that made 15 barrels an hour for sew
eral weeks. Schlegel, Lenz & Fried hold
part of the Fife farm They are ready to
put the second string of casing into their
No on this property. Their Fife No. 2 is
down couple of hundred feet and they are
spudding in No. 3. They are drilling at
600 feet in their No Josiah W aiker, and
are building rig on the Noble, farm, To-
Gated Just west Of the Fife and Walker.
Hirsch & Co. s No. on the Fife farm is
down 300 feet; and Hairy &3g6. have, com
menced to spud in their, No. Josiah
Walker. n :,;r1.e .4s
win Get the Gordon To-Day. ~.
Rend & Robbins well on the Robbins
property, located near the coal tipple west
of Willow Grove, will be in the Gordon
sand this morning. The boiler was moved
back Yesterday, and early in the afternoon
they were getting up steam preparatory to
drilling it into the sand. 1t is only few
feet from a couple of frst-class Gordon
sanders, and Rend g. Robbins expect to add
another to the list
; The Steubenville Oil Company's well on
the Boa lot has not improved, and it has
been universally condemned as a nom
paying we'll.
Shelter s. Co. expect to get the Gordon
to-day or Monday in the eastern part of the
town.
Guckert & Steele have started to spud in
their No. on the Burdimal lot at Willow
Grove. Their No. 2 on this property
should get the Gordon the last of the COM
ing week.
Gordnier's we'll on the Kennedy farm,
north of Oakdale, was several bits in the
fifth sand yesterday afternoon. The sand
was hard and close and the chances for get
ting big we'll were decreasing at every
bit.
The Forest Oil Company expect to get
into the fifth sand to-day in their No. 2
Agnes Kemp, which is located only Is feet
from Gordnier's we'll. The Forests No.
sand by Monday. Its well on the j. n.
Ewing. which came in recently, is making
about 165 barrels day.
Patterson & Jones No. 6, on the 'Kelso
farm, in the McCurdy field, is making 80
barrels day.
Greenlee & Forst expect to finish up their
No 2. on the Wade farm, near Mcdonald
station, next week.
Important Fifth Sand Test.
Storey & Co. started to drill their we'll on
the brickyard lot. just west of Noblestown,
from the Gordon to the fifth sand yester-
day. 1t is an important test of this terri
tory as it is located only short distance
northeast of the Willow Grove Gordon
sanders, and few hundred feet south of
the dry fifth sanders back of Noblestown.
It now an established fact that when
the tools stick in the fifth sand in the old
gusher streaks, the chances are that the we'll
will have to be abandoned. The Oakdale
Oil Company has been fishing. for the tools
in the sand at three wells for over two
months These are their Nos. 6 and 8
Wallace and No. 8 Sturgeon heirs. Fred
Fisher, of the Oakdale, accounted for the
in getting the tools out by the fact
thai the big gushers that have existed in the
have taken the gas out of the
sand, which allows it to fall down around
the tools instead of being thrown out as
and wedges the iron in. The Oak
dale is now drilling No. Z on the Sturgeon
heirs farm.
The Devonian Oil Company's No. 6, on
the Elliott farm, is down about 400 feet.
Guffey, Jennings & Co. have started to !
spud in No. on the Matthews heirs farm
and No. on the Bell. They are still fish |
ing at No. on the Susan Heron farm, and |
are spudding past a stem at 1900 feet in
Bell No. 8.
Haymaker Bros we'll on the McCon-
naughey farm, three miles southwest of |
which was reported yesterday |
as dry in all sands, has been abandoned at |
!, 900 feet.
Shay & Co. have started to drill test |
we'll on the Holmes farm, located 1000 feet |
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