Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-17
STILL HOLDING UP.

The Big Fourth Sand Well in Northwest
McCurdy Is Making 25 Barrels an Hour
"A Gordon Well Showing Good Below
Willow Grove-Other Oil News.
The sensation In the lower fields yester-
day was j. NJ. Guffey, Stewart & Robison's
No on the Mccoy farm, which started of
Thursday at so barrels an hour, and yester-
day it was putting out about 25 barrels an
hour, and the we'll was visited by dozens OF
operators. This is by lar the biggest we'll
developed in the fourth sand, and aston
ishes even the old timers who might be said
to have become calloused when the big
hfth-sanders came in at Mcdonald, making
from 200 10 600 barrels an hour.
Staley & Co. are making preparations to
drill a second well on the Speer iarm, which
lies just north and within a lew hundred
feet of the big well on the Mccoy. Other
leaseholders in that locality are looking up
their property, and the chances are that
many well will soon be going down in the
north and eastern McCuTdy districts.
The Philadelphia Company is preparing to
drill its No. >, on the Martin Clever farm, to
The Forest Oil Company had not discov-
cred any oil yesterday in its No. !, on the d..
b. Clever iarm.
The Sinclair on Company's No. s. on the
Kirk farm, was reported last evening TO be
in the Gordon sand and showing for q well.
1t is in the old Meise pool
THE Belmont Oil Company's No. is drill
ing on top of the Gordon, and the Peoples
Gas Company may get into the Gordon to-
morrow dFthe Wallace farm.
The production of the Mcdonald field de-
ciined from Is, 500 to 1900, aud there was
only one well in the list OF big ones. 1t is
the Woodland Oil Company'S No. . on the
Scott property. and was reported to have
dropped from 40 to 35 barrels an hour.
SIsTERsvLLE-Sullivan & Co.'S test well on
the Scott farm, 10 miles east of this place, is
down 900 feet
The Gauges Yesterday.
The estimated production OF the Mcdonald
field yesterday was 10, 600 barrels 500 less than
the day before. The Woodland Oil Com
pany's No. . Scott was making 80 barrels an
hour The stock in the field was As. 500 bar
rels.
The runs from the sistersville field were
l6 AS barrels.
Runs and Shipments Thursday
The National Transit runs were 80, 624: ship
ments, 10, $40. Runs of Southwest Pennsyl-
vania from Mcdonald, 1886; outside of Nc
Donald, 7,430; total runs, 81, l,3N Buckeye
runs OF Macksburg oil, 1856; shipments, none.
Buckeye runs OF Lima oil. 45. 249: shipments,
A, I63. Eureka runs, 10, 426: shipments, 2,SOO.
New York Transit shipments. Il, l4. South
ern Pipe Line shipments, SC lbs.
The Western and Atlantic Pipe Line runs
for Thursday were 1852 barrels and the
shipments were 1901 barrels.
The runs of the w. L. Mellon Pipe Lines
we're 1852; receipts from other lines, none;
total receipts. 1882; shipments, $50.
The runs of the Tidewater Pipe Line Com
pany on Thursday were 1914; total, &C 4sS;
average, ,433: shipments, none; total, l45 $50;
average, 1856 barrels.
The Oil Market.
Range of the January option: Opening,
5S1%c; highest, 5SLc; lowest, 5Sc; closing,
53c.
Refined oil-New York, 5.45c; London, ~
645sd: Antwerp. 125z..
NEW YORK, Dec. l6.-Petroleum opened
weaker and was dull throughout the day;
Pennsylvania oil, spot sales, none; Janu-
ary option sales, 5000 barrels at 5Sc. Lima
oil. lie bid Total sales, 5000 barrels.
OIL CITY, PA. Dec. l6.-Opened, 5S$Sc: high
es5, 5S5sc; lowest. 525zc: closed. 5235zc: sales,
a. OO0 Drr els; cleerances, l02, 900 barrels: ship
ments, l02, 9S4 barrels: runs, 92,03S barrels.