Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-21
B0RERS NEED WATER.
Pipes, Streams and Springs Frozen
in the Field Yesterday
on THE GLADE RUN EXTENSION.
Operations Active in the Harmony and
Zelienople Districts.
WHERE BIfs ARE NEARING THE SAND

great drawback to operations in the field
Yesterday. AT many of the drilling wells
water lines which had been left unprotected
were frozen up, and in dozens of cases it was
absolutely impossible to get water as the
streams and springs upon which the con-
tractors depended for fheir supply were also
frozen. The drillers were in most cases de-
lighted at the prospect of shutting down, as
few of them care to work in such an atmos-
phere as prevailed yesterday. 1t was par
ticularly hard on those who could not have
fires in the derricks, owing to gas in the
upper sands or their proximity to the oil
bearing formation.
The operators remained in Pittsburg and
were contented to keep within range Of the
small amount of heat which they could coax
from the gas burning stoves, which were, as
a rule, short of fuel. Field men were also
careful of their health, and only where their
EMPLOYERS had a we'll near the top of the
sand, would they venture far beyond the
railroad stations.
The results of the operations of the past
week have given new interest TO the field,
and hope has revived In the breasts OF many
who believed that it had lost its prestige,
and was going TO the same grave
ward in which Wildwood and McCurdy
were only recently laid to rest.
To thousands of others though the return of
the gushers is ghost of awful hideousness
In all of the fields outside of Mcdonald the
producers had hoped that Mcdonald would
soon decline, and when its production went
below so, 600 barrels day they crowed with
delight They believed that when McDon- |
aid had dropped to ordinary proportions
better prices would be paid for petroleum,
and the recent jump it made scared them
worse than does the bogie man the news
BOYS.
Slight Decline in Production.
The production took slight drop |
YESTERDAY and slumped off 1000 barrels or |
from 81, 900 to $4,000. The stocks in the |
field, however, made the remarkable in |
crease Of $4,000 or from $4,000 to In, 600 |
barrels The pipe line runs from Nc |
Donald were 42,66S, an increase of more |
than 5000 barrels over the day before.
Guffev, Queen & Co. IS No. on the Wet |
more farm is holding up its record. 1t was
making Yesterday about 145 barrels an hour |
as near as could be estimated. Only about |
40 barrels were being saved as the gas was |
so strong that from Is to 25 barrels got |
away every hour at the flow tank and ran
down the ravine below the well, in steady |
stream.
The we'll of Guckert & Steele on the
Thompson property, $50 feet northeast of
the railroad station at Willow Grove,
reached the top of the Gordon sand yester-
day afternoon and filled up several hundred
feet with oil. 1t was shut down until the
boiler could be moved back. Brown & Co.'S
well on the McMurray farm at Noblestown
is due in the fifth today. Hays & Cart
lands No. 10 on the Miller farm was ex-
pected to reach the top of the sand late last
evSning
The Woodland Oil Company brought in
its No. 5, on the Gamble farm, back of Oak
dale, early yesterday morning, and last
evening it was reported to be doing 25 bar
rels an hour Guffey, Murphy & Galey's
well on the Connell farm, back of Mobiles
town, which was doing 20 barrels an hour
from the Gordon sand Tuesday, was re-
ported yesterday to have increased to be-
tween 200 and 500 barrels a day.
The Miller Farm Test.
The Mcconnell well on the DR. Miller
farm, nearly mile south of Laurel Hill, is
down 9, 100 feet and on top of the 50-foot.
The owners expect to get the Gordon Mon
day at a depth of 2,27O feet If it is any
kind of q well in the Gordon it Will not be
drilled TO the fifth sand.
Forty quarts of glycerine were put into
the Dougherty lot well of Shay & Co., east
of Laurel Hill, yesterday at the Gordon
sand and it was reported to have increased
to IS barrels a dsy. An operator who was
at the we'll said: "Those 40 quarts did not
seem to have any more effect in knocking
down the sand than if 40 quarts of castor
oil had been put into the hole, although the
well was helped. The Gordon sand and the
fifth are entirely different in this respect as
a small shot in the fifth will knock down
cart loads of rock. p"
Bcggs Roy have made location ofthe
schoolhouse lot east of Willow Grove
Haymaker Bros. wildcat on the McCou-
naughty farm, three miles southwest of Nc
Donald, is down !, 800 feet. The Oakdale
Oil Company's Nos. 10 and IL on the Wal
lace farm will be finished up early next
week with good luck.
Jennings, Guffev & Co. are fishing at their
No. 5 on the Heron farm at short distance
above the sand The same parties No. s, on
the Bell farm will be completed early next
week. The Peoples Gas Company's No. z
on the Miller is down to the hundred-foot,
and their Nos. s and on the same farm are
drilling at about 1,500 feet.
Glade Run Extension.
There was a good deal of Inquiry last
evening in regard to a well of Dale &
Thompson's on the Anderson farm ahead of
Glade Run development, in Penn township,
Butler county. There was a report current |
that it was doing 15O barrels day
from the third sand. This was found to
be incorrect. The well is only in
the hundred-foot where 1t has a show
ing of oil The interest attached to this
we'll is due largely to deal which was
made q couple of months ago. On a
portion of this same farm johnson & Co.
completed q well in October. They held
leases on 800 acres in the vicinity
which was undeveloped Their
well was good for over 100
barrels day, and it and their leases were
purchased bv the Eastern Oil Company for |
$40, 600. The purchasers agreed to give
johnson & Co. $40, 900 additional if they
struck 100-barrel well on the property
and $50, 900 more, making total of $50, 900,
if a 300-barreler was struck. Dale & |
well, lying as it does close to
this property, will be fair test of the lat
ter. 1t is reported that T. w. Phillips
held an option on the property at sec, 900, |
but declined to take it at that figure.
New Work at Harmony.
Harmony and Zel1enople still continue to
hold the attention of Butler county opera
tors. A great deal of new work is going on,
of which the following is portion: Sutton
& Co., Nos. 1 and rigs up on the Shott
farm; Cunningham & Co., Nos and rigs
up on c. Hollerman farm; Sutton & Co.,
No. rig up on Meyer farm; Brown & Co.,
No. rig up on the Geotman farm: Mckee
& Co., building No. 1 rig on Fichenour
farm; Golden & Co.. No. rig up on the
Brenner farm; Guckert & Steele No. rig
building on Scheel farm: S. E. NJ Niece &
Co. are still fishing for string of tools at |
No. 4, Pfeffer farm and are 1000 feet deep; |
same company's 3, Pfeffer, is 80 feet deep
and has No. rig up:
GucEert & Steele No x Staufor farrn |