Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-05
IT IS A BIG OIL WELL.
Brown O. Robison's McMurray Max
ing Fifty Barrels an Hour.
SGME WELLS DRILLED DEEPER.
Three Light Fifth Sanders Which We're
Finished Yesterday.
PRODUCTION is STILL UNCHANGED

The well of Brown Bros. & Robson, on
the McMurray property at Noblestown, is
making !, 200 barrels a day. 1t fully bears
out the prediction made in The DISPATCH,
when the fifth sand was first struck, that it
would be good well.
Some alleged scouts who know all about
wells Oh paper declared that it simply struck
4 pocket OF gas and was throwing out Cor
don OIL when it put 90 barrels into a tank
ii half an hour. As the hole was almost full
OF oil from the third sand there was doubt
less Il good deal of this came uD in the flow,
but the way IN which it flowed afterward
showed conclusively that there was plenty
of oil left in the fifth.
Early yesterday morning the gas was so
strong that the connections were broken
and nearly 800 barrels escaped before the
damage could be repaired. The operators
who were skeptical ut first regarding the
well have no longer any doubt as to the pro-
ductiveness of the fifth sand in this locality,
and are going ahead with all possible speed
TO complete wells around it.
The well of Guffey & Queen and j. NJ. Cuff
feN. on the Mark Robb farm, was drilled
deeper into the sand yesterday, but did not
do better than p barrels an hour. The sand
seemed to get harder, and the drillers be-
heved that they had struck a hard shell in
the sand.
Gardiner. kennedy & Co.'S No. 5, on the
Mertz farm, in Southwest McCurdy, was
four or five feet in the sand last evening and
filled mp several hundred feet. The pay is
not found IN the neighborhood of the Mertz
until the bit has penetrated the rock or 10
feet, ana the capacity of this well may not
be known before tomorrow morning.
Another Western Well Due.
Galley Bros expect TO get the sand to-day
in their No ], on the Walker farm. Their
No on this property is making is barrels
an hour. These wells are located south of
those on the Wetmore farms. They are
building n rig for No. 8, on the Walker,
located 400 feet southwest from the big Sam
NeJmOre No. l.
The Oakdale Oil Company is drilling
pocket out of its old No John Wetmore,
which was a gasser, and will put it down to
the NTH sand.
Westhead & Co.'S No. on the Mcfarland
lot, at Laurel Hill, is through the fifth sand
and dry.
The Jolly Oil Company, which has had a
the station at Noblestown for several
months. is preparing to rig up and drill
their well to the fifth sand as result of the
The Forest Oil Companv's No on the W.
{. Heron farm is in the fifth sand, showing
for a light well. Their Shaffer No. is
through the fifth and good for only 20 bar
rels day. This company's No. l on the
Martha Wright is drilling few feet above
the last sand.
Gutfey & Queens No. l. on the Nancy Bell,
Is down 900 feet. They drilled their Sam
Wetmore No. ! 4 few minutes yesterday and
brought its production up to 100 barrels an
hour. They are building rig for No. 2 on
the Nancy Bell.
4. ". Campbell & Co. are down LOO feet
on the Mrs. McMasterS farm.
Hirsh Cos Fife farm well is still ma king
Is barrels an hour.
The Devonian Oil Company shot its No.
4 Elliott yesterday, and sent its output up
to so barrels an hour. Last evening it was
reported to have dropped to 80 an hour.
Production and Runs.
The hourly gauges yesterday were as fol-
lows: Jennings, Guffey & Co.'s No. 8 Mat
thews. 35: Heron No. ., 20; Heron No. L. 50;
Guffey & Queens Nos l and , Wetmore, s.;
No / samuel Wetmore, 145; Patterson &
Jones No. 3 Keiso, %; Devonian Oil Com
pany's Nos. l and . Boyce, 40; Oakdale Oil
Company's No. , Morgan heirs, 30; Nos. and
Baldwin, %: Nos. and Wallace S5 Guffey,
Galley & Murphyis Nos. / and Sam Stur-
geOn. so: Cfu1iey & Queen and J. NJ Guffey's
No. Mark Robb, 25: Royal Gas Company's
No. Mary RObb, %: Brown Bros & Robin
sons No. McMurray. 30; production, IS, ,5O0
stock in the field, 66 500. 1
The runs of the Southwest PENNSYLVANIA l
Pine Line Company from Mcdonald Wednes- |
day were y $40: outside of Mcdonald, 1881
National Transit runs were 1919; ship |
meuts, 32 So. Buckeye runs, 2s 335: ship |
ments. 1854. Macksburg runs, 9S9: ship |
ments, G66. Eureka runs, 5.253: shipments |
J.. .l6S. Southern Pipe Line shipments, IA 752. |
New York Transit Company shipments 49,
ia barrels.