Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-09

southwest quarter OF section IL. Portage
township. Wood county. For the first "a
hours it produced i20 barrels.
James Hszett has completed and shot his
No. 8, on the F. Legally farm, on the north.
east quarter of section 10. same township.
1t is good for $50 barrels.
L. D. Langmade has shot his No. ], on the
southenss corner of the Augusta Patterson
Liberty township. Itis good for so barrels
STEUBENvILLR, GA member of the
Steubenville Oil and Gas Company has becn
leasing territory for oil ana gas purposes in
the neigh borhood of st. Johns Church. The
company intends putting test well down
as soon as they can get sufficient territory.
Drilling Far-Of Burmah.
The Petrolia> Topic says regarding oil
operations in Burmah:
The Information received from our Petr o.
lia boys while at work drilling in India has
been very meager. and we have to apply. to
other sources for Information from that far
off field. We find that the Indian Govern
ment, with curious perversity, has confined
in the past its efforts to providing few
in hopelessly bad position for in Industrial
development, while totally neglecting the
submarine seas of oil that underlie the
Irrawaddy, in sight of that river and within
60 miles of the Burmese railway system.
These enjoy an easy and organized access to
the sea-. and occupy splendid midway
position between the 300, 100000 oil con-
sumers of India. and the 100000 600 oil con-
sumers OF China. The early wells of Cam
ada we're sunk where the Indians had been
accustomed from time immemorial I'd OBJ
slams. on their part, concentrated their ener-
gies on the oil pits of Baku. which for thou
sands OF years had been known to ana work ed
by the Persians. Hayinf come II into TO-, the ne
Burmah, from which also Tor thousands OF
years oil had been extracted from pits, one
would have thought chat the Indian Gov
ernment, initiating Canada and RuSsin,
wOuld
known to be in abundance, instead of pok-
ing about in totally new locality, from
which no oil had ever been exported, and
where its existence was simply matter OF
surmfse. Burman is dotted with Oil
indications, but there is not much
doubt that the Oldest and largest pools
OF oil lie close to the river and sea.
The Gauges.
The production of Mcdonald was 90
yesterday, 500 less than the day before. The
hourly gauges of the largest wells at Nc
Donald yesterday were rs follows: Forss &
Greenee's No. 2 Noble, q. The estimated
production was ~, 500; stock in field, $4,000.
Runs and Shipments Friday.
The National Transit runs we're 30.396;
shipments, s., ,703 Runs of Southwest Penn
sylvania from Mcdonald, H,470 outside of
Mcdonald, 1913; total runs, s24iS; Buckeye
runs of Macksburg oil. 5,639; shipments,
none. Buckeve runs of Lima oil, 4l67s;
shipments, IS, 552: Eureka runs, 49, ll9; ship
rnents. 2 us: New York transit shipments,
26. 72l; Southern Pipe Line shipments, Is. AL.
The runs of the Tidewater Pipe Line Com
pany Friday were 3ls4 total for the
month, 2l,750; average, 3,l07; shipments,
not in: total, 80 66s; average, 4,3sl.
The Western and Atlantic Pipe Line. runs
were 2,7S4: shipments, 264i.
The runs of the w. L. Mellon lines on
Friday were 6055; receipts from other lines
1881; total receipts, 74S6; shipments, 62s6.
The runs fronNthe Sistersville field were
1851 barrels.