Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-23
NO WELLS REPORTED.
There Are None Now in the Mcdonald
Field Making Twenty Barrels an Hour =
Production Still Going Down - Wells
Due and Drilling in Two States

| fIeiu making twenty barrels an nOur -
Production Still Going Down Wells
Due and Drilling in Two States.
For the first time in over IA months there
are no wells in the Mcdonald field which
are making 20 barrels an hour. For several
days the only we'll which has been reported
as doing that much was the Peoples Gas
Company's No. 155 on the Dixon farm,
south of Willow Grove, and it has been
| putting out petroleum from the Gordon
snad. This well was dropped from the list
yesterday.
The daily production OF this wonderful
field fell to 1900 barrels. which it has
touched only once before since it passed
that point OIL its way TO the 5000 barrels q
| day mark, whic h was reached about a year
ago. There are now no wells coming in
| which can possibly revive it although some
| OF the old ones may be stirred up by glycer-
inc sufficiently to bring it up few hundred
barrels a day.
When it fell below 2o,o 900 barrels a month
| or two ago the Gordon, or third sand, came
| to the rescue, and the Meise pool was opened
| up. 1t brought forth some good wells and
for time they rejuvenated the declining
| field.
The wells on the strip north of Mcdonald
| borough, and lying between the Walker and
| farm, have proven almost absolute failures.
When big wells were drilled in on each OF
| these farms, which are over two miles apart,
the operators at once concluded that
| they we're at either end of rich
| streak, and within a couple OF weeks, eight
| or ten wells were under way on the inter-
vening fary~s.
These haze so far been small wells, and
those around the BIZ. ones have been light.
to the conclusion that the big Walker we'll
Of Fitzgibbons & Co.. and the Royal Gas
Company's gusher on the Mark Robb farm
We're located over isolated pools. With
gh uinor inhf fhar nuy
drilling which can be expected to add very
materially to the output ofthe field.
Mcdonald and West Virginia.
Jennings, Guffey & Murphy expect to drill
in their No. l, on the Joe Robb, tomorrow
morning. Their No. 5. on the Matthews
farm, was drilling at 1000 feet yesterday.
The Peoples Gas Company tried to get a
squib into its No. 156. on the McMurray prop
erty, near Gregg Station, where the rig WIS
burned Thursday. The shot which they
were trying to put off when the rig took fire
Is still in the hole, and they now believe that
the hole is bridged about 80 feet above the
S. S. Wilson stated yesterday that he was
just on ton of the Big 1njun sand on tho
Wilson & Ruff tract in Wayne county. West
limestone and is down over 1,200 feet. The
well is shut down on account OF the cable
being too short. He has 10000 acres leased
from the Guyanootte Coal Company. The
well is located about 40 miles east
OF Huntingdon and so miles from
south OF it Is the warfieid rasser. s:
which has made big lot of oil. It is still
big gasser, but on account Of the sparcely
settled country around il is almost value
less. Wayne county is the most southwest
erly county in West Virginia.
The South Penn Oil Company has started
to drill several of its wells at Warrington
to the fifth sand, at depth OF $500 feet,
where A. J. Montgomery & Co., of Washing
ton, got q big oil well on the Straight iarm.
The latter il now plugged by u cave in in the
slate between the Big 1njun and the fifth.
The Gauges.
The production of Mcdonald was 5000
yesterday, 500 less than the day before. The
estimated production was 1900: stock in
field, 5000
Tue runs from the Sistersville field were
1880 barrels on Thursday and on Friday
1926 barrels. -
Runs and Shipments Thursday.
The Thursday runs of the National Tran. .
sit Company were IS, ,466: shipments, 7,l99;
Southwest runs from Mcdonald were 1876;
outside of Mcdonald, 1881; total, 1851.
Buckeye Pipe Line runs from the Macks-
burg field.no in; shipments, not in. Buckeye
runs of Lima oil, not in; shipments not in /;
Eureka Pipe Line runs, 1855: shipments.
none. Southern Pipe Line shipments 30, ,S67:
New York Transit shipments, 33.9C6.
Tho Western and Atlantic lines ran 3,s70
barrels Thursday; shipments, 1,545.
The runs of the w. l.. Mellon lines on
Thursday were $500: receipts from other
lines, 1875; total receipts, 6,595; shipments,
424S.
Runs and Shipments Friday.
The National Transit runs were not in;
shipments, 80 s7l: runs of the South west, Pa,
lines from Mcdonald, F.I5l; outside OF Nc
Donald, 5.s75; total, eS.O29. The runs OF
Macksburg and Lima Oil were not in.