Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-16
NEW RIGS BEING BUILT.
PRODUCERS STARTING NEW WORK TO
AVOID THE SHUTDOWN.

| Southwest Wi!doatters May Continue to
Dri:l-An Are Not Expected to Join
the Movement-No Big Wells Reported
in Yesterday.
1t was quiet day in the oil fields yester-
day.. No new wells Of any capacity were
reported as completed. Preparations are
being made by number of firms and COM
panies to start large number Of
wells within the next two weeks, as
an effort may be made TO put tire contem-
plated shutdown movement into effect on
May1 A clause in the agreement, which is
being signed, provides that all wells which
are drilling at the time the shutdown Is
ordered may be completed.
1t is to avoid this clause that the wells are
being started now. The parties who are
clnmoring loudest for the shutdown are
those who are either not interested in the
ested and have finished up all of their wells,
and have no new territory to develop.
There are q number of parties who may
not 70 into the movement. They have ter
ritory ahead of Mcdonald which some of the
wells now drilling may develop, and in that
case 1t is scarcely probable that the people
who hold adjoining leases will be content to
remain idle.
All Not Expected to Join.
A producer said lust evening in speaking
many who will not go into it as has been the
case heretofore when a shut down
was inaugurated. The fact is that
nearly all of the available territory in sight
has been drilled over in the body of the Nc
Donald and McCurdy fields. Last fail those
who had territory drilled it as rapidly as
possible. and the present agitation is only
the natural sequence of the feverish activity
of that time.
"As long as men can get a 2oO-barrel we'll
they will go after it, and those who hold
territory south and southwest of Mcdonald,
will be very likely TO develop it this sum-
mer. There is u practical shut down now in
the upper fields, and Harmony and Zelieno-
pie are the only spots north of the Ohio
where much real work is being done.
1.-THE wildcatter has already commenced
operations in West Virginia, and it is ex-
pected that during the summer interesting
region was practically stopped when Nc
Donald was opened up last year."
Light in the Gordon.
The No. 6 on the Morgan Elliott farm. be-
longing to the Devonian Oil Company, was
in the Gordon sand last night and showing
light in that formation. They have fishing
job on hands at their No. on the real es-
tate well in Southern McCurdy. The same
Company's No. Moorhead is down 500 feet.
The Forest Oil Companys test well on the
Stirling farm south of Noblestown was on
top of the Gordon sand yesterday a Afternoon.
OF Oakdale are in the 100-foot.
J. NJ. Guffey, Russell & McMullen's No. 2 on
the Wettengel lease. west of Oakdale, was
drilling in the shell above the fl tth sand last
night. 1t is located about 500 feet north of
their No. l.
Brown, Robson & Co.'S No. on the Nc
Murray lease may reach the Gordon sand
this afternoon.
Isemand & Co. have started to drill at
their No. 2 on the Lee and Marshall lease east
of Noblestown. :.
Bailey & Rolandis well on the schoolhouse
lot at Willow Grove will get the Gordon
sand early next week. Operators around
Willow Grove are resorting to nitro-glycer-
inc, and yesterday three wells were report.
cd to have been shot.
The Columbus Oil Company's venture on |
the Smith heirs farm is not yet in the sand. |
The Mcdonald Gauges.
The following estimates were submitted 1
by the gaugers of the Southwestern Penn |
sylvania Pipe Line Company:
The production OF the Held was 1880. |
!, 600 less than the day before The hourly |
gauges were as follows: Matthews |
No. g. %; Jennings, Guffey & Co.'S HERON |
No. l. 90 No. Bell, 40; Devonian Oil Com
panys Nos. and . Boyce, 20: Oakdule Oil
Company's Nos. 2and 3 Baldwin, 25: Forest |
Oil Compafiy's No. Jane Stewart so: No / |
NJ. Wright. 90: Greenlee & Forst No. l Nc
Murray, %: No. National Coal Company,
%; Russell McMullen and J. NJ Guffey's |
No. Wettengel, 90; Bear Creek Refining
Company's No Campbell, 20; production.
"a 500. Stock in field, 50, 500.