Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-18
THE WEEK IN OILDOM.

More Territory Opened and McDonalds
Output Increased-Two New Wells In
the Sandstone Possibilities Of the
Warrington Fifth Sand Pool-Nems
From Sistersville Wells.
The week closed with Mcdonald putting
out $4,000 barrels day, and it has been
several weeks since the field has been able
to show as big an increase as during the last
six days.
This advance in production is almost
entirely due to the we'll which Greenlee &
Forst drilled into the fifth sand on the
Noble farm, when it started off at 300
barrels an hour for the first few hours and
is still making 100 barrels an hour.
During the week ending September 10
Fitzgibbons & Co. brought in a 10O-barrel an
hour well at their No. walker in the old
Fife pool, on the western side of the McDon-
aid field, and Greenlee & Forst's Noble
the Walker we'll.
The Noble well has opened large scope
OF territory, and already new rigs are going
up southwest of it. and Greenlee Forst are
starting couple of new ones on the same
property.
The Gordon sand pool in the Meise hollow,
located about a mile southwest of Willow
Grove, has somewhat surprised the trade by
looming up once more with 40barrel an
hour well.
1t belongs to the Florence Oil Company,
formerly Friday, Keil & Co., and Is their No.
on the Robb heirs farm. 1t came in late
Thursday evening and is only on top of tho
sand. 1t is gassing very strongly and the
line to the well and plenty OF tankage. as
they are confident that it will go from 200 to
SOO barrels an hour when drilled in.
Showing for a Gordon Well.
The No. 8 on the Shane farm, in the lower
or southwest side of the Meise pool, belong
ing to j. M. Guffey, was reported last even
ing to be six feet in the sand and showing
for well. If it proves to be producer 1t
which has already produced thousands of
barrels Of OIL
The Forest Oil Company's No. on the
John McEwen farm, and located about 300
feet southwest OF the Florence Oil Com
pany's No. Robb, may get the sand the last
o. this week. 1t is the only well drilling on
the McEwen property.
gram was received from the McCurdy
field to the effect that the Phiia-
delphia Company's test well on the
gasser in the ourth sand, but'little or no oil
had been developed. They were still drill
ing and will continue until they get through
the sand. unless the well turns into an oil
producer.
In Greenlee & Forst's office last evening
they reported that after little agitation
CH6lr NO. on the NODl6 1arm DaO increased
its production from l0O to $50 bar els.
FitZgbbons & Co.'S well No. on the j.
Walker farm, which had dropped to % bar
rels an hour. was stirred up and increased
Its output to 4S barrels an nour.
The Oakdale Gas Company and the Wood
land Oil Company were to have drilled their
No. John Robb into the fifth sand yester-
day, but at late hour last evening nothing
had been heard from it at the Woodlands
office. The we'll is located about mile and
a half north oi Oakdale.
Salisbury farm, east of town, is making 90
barrels q day.
Russell & McMullen's well, on the Thistle
farm. was reported to have made 150 barrels
from O'Clock Friday morning until noon
yesterday, which is at the rate of 1SO barrels
q day.
The West Virginia Fifth Sand.
Another startling feature OF the week was
the DEVELOPMENT OF Montgomery s. Co.'s big
fifth sand WELL on the Straight farm, 2I
miles southwest of Warrington, w. Va.
According to all authorities it is making
from 100 to 800 barrels 3 day, and the owners
expect to increase its output deeper drilling.
Speaking of this new feature yesterday,
the well-known President OF a large oil COM
pany said: 81 believe that the whole pro-
duction for the month OF September will be
greater than it has been for many months.
Out in Ohio they have been industrinusly
digging away in the Woodville pool, which
has run up an enormous production; in
Indiana they have a production of several
thousand barrels day; Mcdonald is making
over 2O,oC0 sistersville is averaging over
10000 barrels, while all around We have old
pools that are still producing, and on top of
all this comes the Warrington fifth sand
pool with one well doing from 700 to 800 bar
Iels day, and nobody knows what il may
develop into. ers
1T is from a sand that we know worry little
about, and have had no OeGDerience with ex-
cept at Mcdonald, and here we find it away
down in West Virginia. 1t is just possible
that the Straight farm we'll is located on the
edge of another Mcdonald pool, and ii it is,
1t will make little difference whether they
plenty of men In the oil business who will
bring it to the surface. All you have to do
is to show them the goods and they will get
them out, no difference what the price of
the product"
The Gauges.
The production of Mcdonald was q, 900 yes
erday, 500 more than the day before. The
hourly gauges of the larger wells at McDon-
aid yesterday were as follows: Fitzgib-
bons & Co. No. 6 j. Walker. 4S Greenlee &
Forst's No. Marshall, 25 No. 2 Noble
heirs, 100. Florence Oil Company's No. 7
Robb heirs, 40. The estimated production
was %, ,00o; stock in field, $4,000.
Runs and Shipments Friday.
The National Transit runs were 81, 5ss;
shipments. 81, 13L Runs of Southwest Penn
sylvania from Mcdonald, 20 800; outside of
Mcdonald, H. 1863; total, 80 1859 Buckeye runs
of Macksburg oil, 4,SJO; shipments, none.
Buckeye runs of Lima oil, not in; ship.
ments, 1854. Eureka runs, not in; ship
ments, 1U73 New York Transit shipments,
45 $50. Southern Pipe Line shipments, IA, ,209
w. L. Mellon Pipe line runs, $685. ship
ments, $3.50.
The Tidewater Pipe Line runs for Thurs
day were, 8 l55; total for month, Al ,O54 aver
age, g. 1876: shipments none: total, l15, ,9l3; av-
erage 7,727 barrels.