Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04
AMONG THE OIL WELLS.
The Moore Oil Company's Venture
Showing for Producer.
LIGHT WELL WEST OF M'DONALD.
Sistersville Extended to the Southwest by q
New Well.
A BUTLER MANS DRILLING MACHINE

The big wells of the Mcdonald field have
fallen once more, and yesterday the pipe
line gaugers had only one to report It
was Greenlee & Frost's No. on the
Marshall farm, which is located about half
q mile southeast of Noblestown.
The Royal Gas Company's No. on the
Mark Robb farm, located mile north and
west Of Mcdonald, was dropped from the
list. It has been making 20 barrels an
hour for some time, but yesterday it fell be-
low this amount and was left off the returns.
The chances are that it will be given a shot
in day or two, and once more be placed
among the few that are now classed as
big ones.
wells agitnted, and from up from
four and five to IL and 10 barrels an hour,
and on the Strength of this the production
of the field was estimated at 18, 500 barrels, or
800 more than the day before
The Moore Oil Company's well on the Oak
Ridge Coal Company's property, half mile
ing to be i'll the top of the fifth sand with
several hundred feet of oil in the hole.
No change was reported yesterday from
the Forest Oil Company's well on the De-
vine farm in the northeastern end of the
McCurdy pool. They were still drilling at
1t, but had not succeeded in bringing the
production up TO any startling h2ure. 1t
will probably be shot after they get through
stewart & Robson are starting on the
Mccoy farm, which joins the Devine on the
W.. P. Rend's No. on the sauters farm,
southwest OF Mcdonald, is due inthe Gordon
sand early this week, and his No. is drilling
at ], 400 feet.
VIII Be n go Barrel Well.
The Devonian Oil Company has shot its
No. on the Mcdonald Bros.' property. west
of Mcdonald, but it will not be better than
a 5o-barrel well. This company has just
started to drill eight wells in the Mcdonald
field fSd re,. Tnes are their Nos. = and on
the J. W. Robb, No. on the
J. h. Robb farm, No Q on the wettengel and
No. on the Mertz in the lower part Of the
J. Nj. Gnfey & Co.'s Nos on the Bate
Shane farm is down about 1900 feet, and
their No. is drilling at 900 feet.
Russell, McMullen & Co.'s No. on the
Robb farm will be in early this week. Their
No. on the same farm is down about 1,S00
feet and No. 7 Is down 500 feet.
The PEOPLES Gas Company's No. 152 on the
they are down 400 feet in No. l5S on the same
farm.
The oakdale Oil Company is still pegging
. Hutchinson is drilling at 700 feet.
The W oodland Oil Company is drilling No.
9 Crawford; No J. II Robb No l John
and No on the Scott heirs farm.
The Northfield Oil Company, which is the
producing end OF the Royal Gas Company, is
drilling Nos. 2 and on the Mark Robb iarm.
Neither we'll is yet down 1000.
Malarkey McMillan's No. 8, on the Free
man property, half a mile west of Oakdale,
is down 900 feet.
W. C. Kennedy & Co. are down several
n
farm in the old Fife pool.
Fitzgibbons Co. expect to drill in their
No. on the Walker farm the last of this
week.
Caldwell & Mays are down 1900 feet in No.
on the Robb property and No. on the
same farm is 1000 feet deep.
Extending the sistersviIIe Field.
s1srERsv1LLE-The Devonian Oil Com
pany's test well on the f. R. Wells farm,
located q mile and half below town, was
reported at the office of the company yes
terday to be in the top of the sand and
making 35 barrels of oil and 1908 barrels of
salt water day. 1t advances the territory
considerably to the southwest. The same
firm is building two rigs on the Keener heirs
farm, ~ miles southwest of Sistersvtlle.
New Drilling Machine.
The Oil City Derrick says: C. E. Glenn, Of
Butler, has been in the city for the past two
months experimenting the construction at
the OIL Well Supply machine shops here, of
his newly patented portable drilling
machine and traction engine, The machine
will be tested at the grounds of the new
hospital on Hasson's hill, where it
will be used to- drill a water well
from 700 to 800 feet deep. The machine
is built entirely of iron and steel
and weighs {, 900 pounds. 1t uses combina-
tion of the style of tools now used in drilling
oil wells and those of the diamond drill.
The inventor claims for it that it will drill
hole from NJ inches to inches in diameter
to depth OF 1000 feet. 1t consists of a trac-
tion engine, boiler and DERRICK the latter
mast shaped and built of steel and
SO arranged as to lay back on the
engine when not in use. The machine is
equipped with two walking beams, fitted
with coil springs that prevents the strain of
the weight of the tools from bearing upon
the engine. The regular tools Of the drfller
are used until the hard rock is passed and q
sample of the strata is desired when the dia-
mond drill is substituted. This drill is O
tube of steel II feet long, in the lower end of
which is fitted seven diamonds. SO arranged
as to cut out section OF the desired strata
3I inches in diameter, II feet in
length. In a previous test a similar
machine drilled p feet il 215 hours. The
time required to change from the bit to the |
drill is 80 minutes. The inventor |
claims his machine is especially valuable in |
for minerals, as by the use of
desired strata can be secured at any depth. |
The tools are all carried on the engine, |
every part of which is fitted with powerful |
brakes. 1t is guided by brake beam and it |
Is claimed it can be made to climb any Or |
dinary hill passable for wagons.
The Gauges. |
The production of Mcdonald was ls 500 yes |
terday, 500 more than the day before. The |
hourly gauges of the larger wells at McDon- |
aid yesterday were as follows; Greenlee |
& Forsts No. 6 Marshall 80. The estimated |
production was $500; stock in the field,
L, 900.
Runs and Shipments.
National Transit Company runs were |
30 634; shipments, not in.
Southwest Pennsylvania runs from Nc |
Donald were 16 730. Outside of Mcdonald,
$780, Buckeye runs, Macksburg division, |
J, ,962; shipments, none. Shipments from the |
Lima division notin; runs, 81, ,539. The Eureka
runs were 1894: shipments, not in. Southern |
Pipe Line shipments, not in. New York
shipments, not in.
The Tidewater Pipe Limo runs on the Cd |
we're 3497. Total, 6.459 average, 8,229 Ship
nents Friday were, %, 9os: total, 23, ,9os; aver
,ge, Il, ,94.
The runs from the sistersville field Friday
we're 1852 barrels.
The OIL Market.
Range Of the October option: Opening.
DC: highest. 551sc; lowest 55c; closing. 55c.
Refined oiI-New York, 6. l0c; London, 4s40
1850; Antwerp lower at 1877.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3-There was no bus-