Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-17
FINISHING UP WELLS.
One Light Fifth and Several Gordon
Sanders Brought In.
WILLOW GROVE NOW IN ITS GLORY.
The Outlook Good for Nice Producers in the
Neise District.
REPORTS FROM VERONA CONFIRMED

Although ii is now year since the No
Donald field was opened up it is still active.
In Mcdonald, Willow Grove, Noblestown
and Oakdale, the four embryo towns which
have been brought into prominence bv the
oil industry, are yet almost rs many people
as there were nine months ago.
There are more permanent residents,
although the floating population which
always infests an oil town is not SO large.
No tanks are to be built now, no pipe lines
to be constructed. and the speculators and
scslpers who were for few months as thick
as flies about molasses barrel, have nearly
all disappeared.
1t is safe to say that not 10 per cent Of
them made any money.
The best of the land had been leased be-
fore they arrived. and the late comers got
only town lots or farms, which proved in
different territory.
Willow Grove was for a long time neglect
ed but with the daisies and dandelions it
bloomed into full-fedged oil town, just
like its neighbors 1t has its shanty restau-
rants and its p,latial hotels, unpapered un-
carpeted, but not unsung, for from every
train that passes can be seen the glarins and
gilded signs, Turing the traveller to taste the
oel1cacles con tatned within.
There it has its pool rooms, shooting gal
leries, and tents filled with liquid refresh
ments. The only features wanting to make
1t typical oil town however, are saloons
and dance halls. It is unlike its neighbors
in one respect in that it has not yet been ac-
cused of harboring the pern1cious speak
easy.
Willow Grove Now the Center.
Back of or south of Willow Grove which
Is almost IL miles from Pittsburg on the
Panhandle Railroad, is the big Gordon sand
pool which is being gradually and steadily
opened up. 1t has already gained the sobri-
Quet of the 'Meise district because the
initial well in the pool was drilled by Lynch,
Buchheit Co., on the Meise farm, a couple
Just south of Willow Grove is a hill 300 feet
high and it is nearly a mile from the station
to the top. From the top a broad fertile
valley stretches out to the south and west
In this valleg the big Gordon, or third sand
is now being found at depth of from q $50 to
1900 feet, and thus far every we'll has pro-
duced from $50 to ! 200 barrels day.
The beauty of the Gordon sand wells is
their staying quality. They did not play out
with f1zz and sputter, which has charac.
teriZed the latter day tth sanders. 1t is
true that some of them have declined from
the production at which they started, but
they hold on with a tenacity that is not gem
orally found in the lower level
In the valley south of the Willow Grove
hill there are 20 wells drilling and rigs up.
Even with this number the territory will
not be half tested. There are none east or
due south of the Meise No. |, and in these
directions Others must be put down in order
TO get at the value of the sand
No Change in the Production.
The production of the Mcdonald field yes
terdav was estimated at % 500 barrels the
same as Wednesday.
The Devonian OIL Company shot and agi-
tated their Nos and 2on the Boyce farm in
the southern part Of McCurdy, until their
combined output reached 25 barrels an
hour, and they were added to the list of the
big ones given in the gauges
j. NJ. Guffey & Co.'S No. on the Mankedick
fam, south o! Willow Grove. was agitated
and its production ran up from 90 to rs bar
rels an hour Forest & Greenlee's No on
the McMurray farm, located between Oak
dale and Noblestown, fell OFF very Sra pidIy
and, although it was given in the list of
gauges yesterday morning as making IS bar
Ials an hour, it was dropped from the list
last evening, indicating that it had fallen
below 20 barrels an hour.
Brown, Robson Co.'S No. 8 on the Nc.
Murray, located near Noblestown was
agHated and its output went up from 20 to |
The Forest Oil Company's No. 2 on the Mrs.
Campbell farm, south of Willow Grove, fell |
barrels an hour instead of 50 as on the day |
before.
This company's No. l John McEwen was |
nnlsned up terday ana will make $50 bar
rels from the Gordon SAND. No. 4 McEwen |
Is down 1000 feet. The Eureka Oil Com
pany's No. on the Kelso iarm is down and |
good for only l25 barrels a day. Their No. Q |
helso is down 500 feet.
Looks Like q Winner
Friday, Ken & Co.'s No. on the Robb |
of the Meise vel, ,ano within a stones throw
of the Forest Oil Company's No. Campbell, |
was just in the top of the Gordon sand yes
terday, and gassing strongly. They were
shut down at noon making connections, bu. |
expected to get it drilled in last night. Their !
No. on the Robb heirs property was drilled |
into the Gordon, and will probably make a |
250-barrel we'll. No. 2 is due in the Gordon |
to-day; No. is down 900 feet: No 5. l. 100. and |
rigs are being built for Nos. 6 6and7.
m N n Nc 6pfc 1,al
a well on the McVickars lot near Willow |
Grove station. 1t has been drilling for the |
last four months, and when it was finally |
put through the Gordon yesterday it did |
not make flow. 1t may make so or IS bar
rel puml,er.
Guffey, Gailev & Co.'s Nos and 9, on the
Mankedick farm, which have Just been
finished, will not make more than 100 bar
rels day each from the Gordon sand.
The oakdale OIL Company is starting to
drill another well on the Morgan heirs farm
near the Elliott hollow pump alton
Greenlee Forst and the Benner Brothers
will start to drill to-day on the Noble Iarm |
Their location Is LOO feet southwest of Fitz-
gibbons Co.'S No. 8 on the Walker farm.
They will start to drill at No. Kirk farm. |
southwest of the Meisa, next Monday. and
will start to build rigs for Nos. 3and4
Small Well on McDona.d d Properly.
The Devornian Oil Company's No. lon
small well. 1t was drilled as a test, and is
loo ated between the old Jumbo well and |
Mcdonald. little Oil was found in the
Gordon and an increase in the fifth
Greenlee & Forst's well in the McLea n or |
chard, located about 900 feet southwest of
Oakdale is 500 feet deep.
Kennedy, Marshall & Co., shut down on |
top Of the fifth sand last night in their No, .
on the Roy lease, east of Noblestown. and
will drill it in to-day. Their Steiglefghter
we'll at Noblestown will be in next week.
The same parties are drilling gas well one
mile south of Smithville, on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, which should get the gas
sand early next week. 1t is located ON the
Hugh Barr farm.
The Forest Oil Company's No. on the
Robert Wallace farm in the Meise district
was in the salt sand yesterday.
w. L. Rends No. ! on the j. ID. Sauters
farm, which is only three feet in the Gordon
They are afraid to drill it deeper for fear of
striking salt water and running the we'll 1t
Is good big gasser from the 50-foot and
com1lnes an oil and gas well in one. He is
rigging up at No. and will commence a rig
1or NO 3 the first of next week.
hkRoNA-The Equitable Gas Company's
Wen Wen on a lot In Midtown. two miles east of
tEis place, is reported to be showing for a
200 Obarrel well in the lOO-foot. They got an
excellent quality of sand.
Asa Say is drilling on the Stoner farm, a
nliIe 2 s9Sthwest St6 OF Milltown, for gas. He is
OIL IN tue 5o-foot, but none in the lOO-foot
The Mcdonald Gauges
The following estimates were submitted |
by the gaugers of the Southwestern Penn
sylvania Pipe Line Company:
The production of the field yesterday was
2, 500 or the same as the day before The
hourly gauges eere as follows: Jennings.
Guffey & Co.'S Matthews No. 8, 20; Lyncn &
Co.'S No l Meise, 30 J. NJ Guffey Il Co.'s
No. Mankedick, %: Fitzgibbons & Co No. |
; Walker, 40; Brown, Robson & Co.'s No 8
McMurray, IS; Oakdale Oil Company's No. 2
Morgan, 80; FOREST T on Company's No. 2