Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-06
CAN FIND MORE POOLS.
The Petroleum Business Will Not
Die 0utfor Many Years to Come.
OTHER STATES ARE LOOMING UP.
More Money Now Invested in Oil Than
in Any Other Industry.
JOHN F. cARLL TALKS ON THE SUBJECT

There has been an opinion of late among
great many oil operators that when the
present fields play out there will be no
more pools to discover.
In consequence of this reasoning they
figure that when the Pennsylvania and
West Virginia fields are thoroughly drilled
over that the oil men will have to seek a
new vocation. It is not generally known,
but nevertheless it is fact that there has
been more money spent in the oil fields of
this State than in any other business, even
including iron, in the Commonwealth.
1t is not possible that the men who have
spent their lives in the oil business will
give up without struggle, and consequently
they have had agents both in the South and
West within the last few years.
John F. CARL, who had charge of the geo.
logical survey of the State, under the re-
cent commission, was seen last evening, and
when talking of the prevalence of oil fields
in the country he said that there would un-
doubtedly be large oil fields found for years
to come 'There are still large fields in
Pennsylvania, he said, "but none of them
may equal that of Mcdonald. In the latter
pool bigger wells were found than in any
other field ever struck in the oil regions.
May Not Have Gone Down.
''The western part of the State of Pennsyl-
vania has been pretty we'll drilled over, but
there may yet be spots in which big wells
may be found. certainly affirm that the
discovery of the field was delayed many
months on account of the ignorance of the
operators They drilled in the field, but
they never reckoned on the distances of the
sands from each other. The result was that
in many cases they drilled down to the Cor
don or third sand, and never dreamed of
going to the fifth.
"This was probably the case at Jen-
nings, Guffey & Co.'S we'll on the
Marshall farm, which was by long odds the
biggest we'll struck in America. The own
ers drilled it down to the third or Gordon
| sand and it started off at 40 barrels an hour.
1t kept this gait for several weeks, when
the owners heard of other wells being put
down to the fifth sand and they followed
suit. The result was that the well started
off at 120 barrels an hour as soon as it struck
the fifth sand.
Never Drilled Deep Enough.
'This, of course, led to the belief that there
were many other wells in the vicinity
which would increase by drilling to the
fifth sand, and this was accordingly done.
The result was that q prolific fifth sand was
discovered and operators found that by
going deeper they were liable to discover
paw sands.
''This has been demonstrated frequently
since, and I still believe that there are vet
dozen fields in the State where the drills
have not been put down far enough to de-
termine whether there are any lower pay
sands
II recently returned from trip to the
vicinity of Monticello, KY, and must say
that the indications all point to big oil
field in that section. The conglomerate is
the same as that found in Bradford, and 1
honestly believe that in years to come there
will be an immense oil field opened in Ken
tucky and Tennessee. There are, besides
this, large fields in Wyoming and Colorado
which have shown that they will prove big
developers when properly opened up.
Indiana has not yet been exhausted by
any means, and the chances are that there
are plenty of pools in OHIO, as well as in
West Virginia that will yet be developed. -