Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-02
GORDON SAND AGAIN.
1t Is Adding Materially to the Pro-
ducti0n of Mcdonald.
WELLS WHICH ARE DUE TODAY,
Root & Co.'S Fogle Farm Test Well at EEL
ienople Is a Failure.
ENGLISH PIPE LINE STORY A MYTH

The Gordon sand is again in the ascend.
ant in the Mcdonald field. The develop
ments Yesterday were all in his formation,
and within the next three days there will
| probably be half dozen wells drilled into
| the Gordon in localities where it is believed
that this sand will prove productive.
There are several fifth sanders due. The
production OF the Mcdonald pool fell off
| 500 barrels Yesterday and is given in the
| gauges as % 000 barrels.
One nice Gordon sander was developed
| yesterday in the territory southwest of the
! town of Mcdonald. 1t is the Wheeling Gas
| Company's, or rather its producing end. the
Venture Oil Company's No. l, on the Rich
| ard GLADDEN. farm. According to the re-
ports received at the companys office last
evening it was making ten barrels an hour.
Tho same company's No. l on the w. B..
Moorehead farm, which was shot few days
ago. and its output increased to 10 barrels
yesterday from the Gordon. This was the
initial Gordon sander in the region i'm
mediately southwest of Mcdonald, and for
several months it made over 500 barrels a
day.
Their No. 2 on the Moorhead property was
on top of the Gordon sandlast evening, and
was shut down until they can measure up.
the Cook Wen Still Producing.
The old Cook we'll at the Mcdonald sta
tion, which took fire last fall and burned for
a week, while it was making from go to Is
barrels an hour, is still doing a fraction
over six barrels an hour.
They have an ugly fishing job on hand at
their No. l on the Robbins farm. When with
in less than Is feet of the filth sand the tools
were dropped from the top of the hole.
and the contractor hopes to be able to get
the iron out. In a dry hole such an accident
almost invaria bly, results in abandoning the
hole. According to the mathematical form-
ula the tools would be at the bottom in
seconds and would drop l.0A feet in the last
second. reckoning the depth of the well at
2 200 feet.
S. S. Wilson Co.'S WELL on the Church
lot, half a mile south of Willow Grove, was
on top of tine Gordon sand last night and
will be drilled in this mdfning.
The Devonian Oil Company expected to
get the Gordon sand last night in its No. !,
on the Mcdonald Bros. property.
The Woodland Oil Company is rigging up
at its No. 2, on the Mckee farm, back OF
Oakdale.
The Oakdale Gas Company's No. 4, on the
Robb farm, is down 200 feet.
viii Get the Fifth To-Day.
Greenlee & Forst's No. ! on their No. 2
McMurray lease was on top of the fifth
sand last night. 1t is located a few hundred
feet north of the Noblessown coal tipple.
Their No. on the No. Marshall lease,
should be in the Gordon sand to-day, and
No. is due in the Gordon Friday.
Cutler and Stewart have tubed their well
on the Morsaint lot, south of Willow Grove.
1t Is good for 200 barrels.
Mcmahon and the Steubenville Oil Com
pany expect to finish up their well at
Noblestown this week.
Keil. Friday & Co. expect to get the 100
foot this week on the Mrs. Robb farm, which
is located between Willow Grove and the
Meise we'll of Lynch, Buchheit & Co.
Down at Sistersville the well of the Victor
Oil Company and the Devonian Oil Com
pany at -Padens Valley is expected in the
sand to-day or tomorrow, and is being
closely watched by large number of oper-
ators 1t is located about four miles up the
river from Sistersville, and is considered as
a good test of the territory northeast of
Ludwig & Moneys big we'll on the Russell
farm.
Another test we'll which is attracting
much attention on account of its proximity
to the sand is Murphy & Co.'S, on the Stew
art farm, located almost due west of Sisters
vile. in Perry township, Munroe county,
Ohio. They are looking for the oil in the
Berea grit.
Z-lienopIe Gets a Black Eye.
The Zeieuople field got a black eve yes
terday. For several days Root & Co.'S well,
on the Fogle farm. has been near the sand,
and as 1t was the most important we'll in the
field, it has been attracting more than tho
usual attention. 1t Is located about
of a mile southwest of the
Mckenzie Oil Company's big No. on the
Miller farm and was the flrthest well to |
the southwest in the field. Reliable reports
q
three barrel well. Farmers and leasehold- |
ers in the neighborhood are corresponding
ly depressed.
Guckert & sseele's No. on the Meyer
to 100 barrels u day. Their No Eichotz is
due to get the sand tomorrow. They have |
a rig up for No on the Scheile farm.
Yesterday they sturted to pull out tho |
wildcat which they drilled on the Flinner
farm, five miles northeast of Zelienople, and |
within short distance OF Lancaster.
1t is about two miles southwest of j. NJ.
Gartland's we'll on the Phillip
NaSel farm, near Portersville. There was
report in circulation yesterday that the
latter well was to be drilled into the sand
Yesterday. This was denied by interested
parties VINO claim that the flow of salt water
Is too strong to allow them to work ut it.
Call it "a Chicago Fake.
Reports have been published in the lead
ing cities of the country for several days to
the effect that syndicate of English cap.
italsts were about to construct network
Of pipe lines through the oil regions of Penn
sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, which
would terminate at the seaboard.
These reports emanated from Chicago,
and a man giving his name and address as
George B. Cowlar, of Pittsburg,'' is re-
,ponsible for the statement. He says the
syndicate has more money in sight than is
by the Standard Oil Company.
No such person as George B. Cowlan is
known to the oil men OF Pittsburg, and his
name is not in the directory. William
Guckert. OF Guclxert & Steele; F. E. Boden,
Of the F. +. Boden Oil Company; Henry
Stewart. Bob Stafford and a dozen others |
any knowledge of such a man,
Ind said that whoever he WAS he was
talking through his hat, Oh else
'he story was Chicago fake.
The Mcdonald Gauges.
The following estimates we're submitted
,y the gaugers of the Southwestern Penn
ylvana Pipe Line Company:
The production of the field was 2200O
,r 500 less than the day before. The
lourly gauges were as follows: Mat
hews' No. 3. 90; Lynch 4 Co.'S No. Meise,
5; Morgan No. 2. 40;J. NJ. Guffey & Co.'S No.
Iankedick, %: No. l McMichael, 20: Brown,
Robson & Co.'S No. ; McMnrray, 20; Pro
luction, q, 900. Stock in field, 81 000
The runs of the southwestern Pennsylva-
lia Pipe Line Company from Mcdonald
tuesday were 25O31: outside of Mcdonald,
53Sl. The National Transit runs were
4, ,243: shipments, 2z.607. New York Transit
hipments were 1856 Macksburg division
f the Buckeye Pipe Line Company, 2.47s.
buckeye rms, g. l31: shipments, 1928.
outhern Pipe Line shipments, none. Eureka
uns, O,562; shipments, 3,l27.
Yesterdays Market Features.
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