Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-10
DRY HOLES REPORTED.

Forest OIL Company's No. Campbell Is a
Duster-List of Wells Now Drilling in
tho Mcdonald Field-Activity In the
Butler and Garvin Districts.
There were few changes in the oil fields
yesterday. The Forest Oil Company's No.
6 on the Mrs. Campbell farm, located in
the Meise hollow, a mile south of Willow
Grove; on the Panhandle, was reported to
be 20 feet in the fifth sand and dry in that
formation.
Their No. L. on the McClelland farm, To-
Gated half mile east Of Oakdale, is down
400 feet Their No. 9, on the Susan Heron
Iarm. is 600 feet deep; No. l, on the Robert
Wallace, is down l,s0O feet, and No. 6, on the
John McEwen, is down about 1000 feet.
They expect to be spudding on the Turner
tarm the first of the week.
Down at Coraopolis the Forests No. ! on
the Getty farm is drilling at 1000 feet, and
their No. on the Cheever is about the same
depth.
Leedf farm in the northeast end of the Nc
Curdy field is strong gasser in the Gordon
sand and is being put down to the fifth sand
formation.
Back of Verona, in the Milltown gas dis
trict, there is good deal of drilling going
on. The Forest Oil Company and j. Nj. Pat
terson are down 600 feet on the Caldwell
farm. Their well on the Colgan property is
drilling at 400 ieet, and on the Ryan, the
Hamill. and the Snively they are drilling at
from 800 to 1000 feet.
The Equitable Gas Company is down 400
feet in a new well at New Texas, which is
located about six miles south of Parnassus.
Butter County Work.
PETERsvILLE - Dale & Thompson have
started to drill their No. on the Oswald
RAIDER farm. Gibson, Gaghagan & Younkins
have started to put down their No. on the
johnson farm in the Brownsville district.
The Forest Oil Company's No. on the F.
and c. Meder farm. in the Garoin district,
four miles southwest of Gallery Junction, is
drilling at 800 feet. No. 3 on the same farm
is ready to start to drill and the rig is being
built for No. 1. They are spudding in No. 2
On the Fred Meder and have located Nos. 3
and 4 ON the same farm.
Griesbauch Co. are ready to start on the
Garvin farm.
Guckert & Steele have rig up on the Gar
vim property, and Lenz. Schlegel & Co. are
ready to drill on the same Iar1n.
Egbert & Co. are down 1000 feet on the
Heckert farm, located midway between
Wildwood and Brush creek.
The Gauges.
The production of Mcdonald was 20, 900 YES
terday, 500 less than the day before. The
hourly gauges of the larger wells at McDon-
Company's No / Mark Robb 20 Florence Oil
Companys No. Robb heirs. 25; Fitzgtbbons
& Co. No. 6 j. Walker, rs. Lynch, Buch-
heit & Co.'S No. l Muse, IS The estimated
prnOuctlon was looUU; STOCK IN the uelQ
1900
Runs and Shipments.
National Transit Company runs yesterday
were "a, ,7O3: shipments, 1888.
Southwest Pennsylvania runs from Nc
Donald were 22,943. Outside of Mcdonald,
7,5l2. Buckeye runs, Macksburg division,
none: shipments, none. Shipments from the
Lima division, zoos; runs. As 29O. Southern
Pipe Line shipments. ELSA. New York
Transit shiOmeQts. 40 965
The Tidewater Pipe Line runs yesterday
were l. A3 Total, 81, ,l12; average, S,OH. Tide
water shipments were. 20,Hl; total, $3.50;
average, $685.