Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-10
THEY CANNOT AGREE.
Oil Well Supply Men Have Been Try
ing to Organize a Trust.
WETTENGEL NO. 8 IS A PRODUCER.
Forest Oil Company's Test Well on the
Gregg Farm Is No Good.
FOURTH SAND OIL ON THE CUBBAGE

some time among the oil well machinery
men to organize trust, put the various
manufacturing plants under one man
agement, cut down expenses as
much as possible, and sell their
goods at a uniform price. Since the
opening of the Mcdonald field they have
been fighting among themselves, and have
! not been able to agree upon scale OF prices
for any great length o. ,,,n time; would bs ooinv
/ nicely 1t would be found that some one mad
| started to undersell the others, ana then
They were at big expense for agents and
outside men, and owing to the fact that in
hundreds of cases they were compelled to
wait indefinitely for their 1nOney, eSaS Rod Sney
tfcipated considering the vast amount or
| supplies that were suddenly demanded. 1t
was to remedy these evils that the trust was
| proposed.
Like the shutdown movement, however,
it has failed to materialize; supply
dealer said yesterday: %lf all ine ~ PGlleas Inys
| bility and usefulness, it would pc an easy
matter to organize combine Ii they were
all the same price, only Two Or OF
| all others would be relegated to the JUNK
pile This is the stumbling block, and do
not believe that a trust of supply men Is
| practicable.~
wettengeI No. Is a Well.
Tho production OF Mcbonaiu So'eoi
day was estimated at $1,000 barrels, or the
same a. Sunday. Saturday it was only 2l,-
500 barrels.
Two. of the parties interested in j.. NJ.
Guffey, Russell, McMullen & Co.'S NO. on
the Wettengel farm. half n mile west of Oak
dale informed THE DISPATCH scout Saturday
evening, that their well was almost throu9n
the fifth sand and was almost dry. rms
was the opinion of all who visited the well.
They had made a mistake in measuring up
and we're not as far in the sand as they ex-
pected.
At an early hour Sunday morning pay in
at 25 barrels an hour. Yesterday IL was
making from l. to Is barrels an hour and the
people who were drilling in the vicinity ana
had almost decided to abandon their wells
were correspondidgly elated.
Greenlee,& & Forst's No. . on the McMur.
ray lease was on top OF the Gordon SAND yes.
terday afternoon. They expect to be Ill 1t
Brown, Davis & Co.'S. well on the Wilkin::
son lot is through the Gordon SAND ana
should be in the Fifth by Thursday. 1t is
several hundred feet east OF the Wettengel
No.
Coal Company, Is still doing 20 barrels an
hour.
The Gregg Well Is Light.
One OF the most important features Of the
day was the drilling of the Forest Oil Com
pany's test well on the Gregg farm, south of
the railroad near Gregg station on the Pam
handle into the fifth sand. After being shut
down for a day or two it was started up
yesterday morning, and in few hours was
almost through the sand.
The quality of the latter was very poor,
and last evening there was only 200 feet OF
oil in the hole. 1t may make q 10 or u barrel
pumper. 1t is almost due south of the Nc |
Curdy field proper, and indicates that there
is little possibility of an extension OF the |
pool being found in that direction.
The Bear Creek Refining Companv's test |
fb + in, fa McCnrlr. |
is due in the fifth sand some time this alter
noon. The chances are that 1t will be light |
well.
the Cubpage farm, located about ~ miles |
south of Mcdonald has developed oil In the |
fourth sand. but scarcely enough to make it |
a paying well from that rock. 1t Will be |
drilled to the fifth.
The Forest Oil Company's No. John |
Scott, north of Oakdale, is in the Gordon,
and their No. l Campbell heirs is on top OF |
the same sand. |
WHEEL1NG-Of was found in Doddridge |
county, w. Va. near the Big Isaac's gasser, |
and pipe line IS being laid from Center |
Point to Lima station, on Indian creek. 1t |
will be laid to the Sullivan well. The South |
Penn Oil Company will make a thorough !
test of the Mcclellan field this summer |
Samuel MCMILLAN has paid 50, 900 bonus for !
23O acres and So a month rental. 1t is eight |
miles from the well.
The Mcdonald Gauges.
The following estimates were submitted |
by the gaugers of the Southwestern Pennsyl- |
vania Pipe Line Company:
The production of the field was p 900, the |
same as the day before. The hourly gauges |
were as follows: Matthews No 8, 20; Oak |
dale Oil Company's Nos and Baldwin, 20; |
Forest Oil Company's No Jane Stewart, 30; |
j. M. Guffey s. Co.'s No. McMichael, %; |
Lynch & Co.'S No. Meise, so; Greenlee & !
Forst's No. l National Coal Company, 30. |
Production, g, 600. Stock in field, IS, ,OO0
The runs of the Southwest Pennsylvania
Pipe Line Company from Mcdonald Satur-
day were o. SS3: outside of Mcdonald, $685. |
The National Transit runs were 4,2l6: ship
ments mono. New Yofk Transit shipments /
were q, 140. Macksburg division of the Buck
eye Pipe Line Company, 9A Buckeye runs.
"a $40; shipments, "a, Sol, Southern Pipe Line
shipments, IL, ,30s Eureka shipments. 1s90.
The runs from Mcdonald Sunday were /
16AT., National Transit runs, 1856; ship
ments, IS 9i5. Buckeye shipments were 800.
Macksburg division, l47