Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
SCOTT FARM HAS OIL.
Knox Bros. Well Is Making Over One
Hundred Barrels a Day.
WILL BE DRILLED IN TOMORROW.
One Well Should Get the Sand This After
noon and Others Due.
THE FIFTH SAND AT INDEPENDENCE

souLnNeSL OF McD0nald. Frlday even
ing it was reported to have reached
the top of the fifth sand and made several
flows. There were rumors flying thick
and fast that it was making anywhere from
200 to 400 barrels a day These could not
be conf1l med but yesterday the we'll was
visited by q number of operators, who found
that 1t was making better than l00jbarrels a
day.
There were no tanks at the well and the
OIL was not being saved. One of the owners
said last evening that a couple of 250-barrel
tanks would be furnished by Monday, and a
pipe line would also be laid TO il. The
owners then intend to drill it into the sand.
Judging from present indications it will be
good well as the oil which it has been
| making so far comes from the top of the
sand.
The well is located on the John Scott
farm, about two miles northwest OF Venice
and ~ miles southwest of Mcdonald. The
John Reed well, which was drilled by Mer-
Ger and the Pittsburg Oil Company. is locat-
ed about q mile southwest or the Scott, on
almost a As degree line. Oil was found in
the fifth sand in the latter WELL but not in
sufficient quantity to warrant the drilling Of
other wells on the Same farm.
Salt VI ater In the Gordon.
In all of the wells which have been drilled
southwest of the Moorhead, salt water has'
been found In the Gordon sand in such
quantities that the owners are compelled to
case through that formation and over 2, 300
and the Wheeling Gas Companys well on
the W. j. Kelso farm is now shut down wait
ing for casing to shut off the Gordon sand
water.
If the Scott well should prove to be as good
as its present condition would seem to indf-
cate, it will stimulate the lease holders in
that territory, and cause an increase in
operations.
W. P. Rend's well on the ]. D. sauters
farm, located about q mile south of the
wheeling Gas Company's No. Moorhead,
10 RI foo M
Graham, and is an important test Of the
Venice wells.
The Woodland Oil Company's No. l. on the
GLADDEN. farm near the Moorhead was on
top of the Gordon yesterday, but will not
be drilled in until Monday.
McManus & Co.'s No. l. on the Richard
GLADDEN., located 700 feet west of the Moor
head: is expected to reach the Gordon sand
by Thursday.
Two Boyce Farm Wells.
The Devonfan Oil Company's No. 8, on tho
Boyce farm, north of Oakdale was reported,
last evening, to be just in the top of the
fifth sand and showing for good well.
Hustler, Davis & Bolts No. g. on the Boyce,
is due to get the fifth sand this afternoon.
They intend to drill to-day, as it has been
making from IS to SO barrels day from the
fourth sand and they are afraid to stop
drilling lest it should settle back and stop
flowing when it would take much longer to
drill it into the fifth.
Their No. on the Boyce is down 1soo feet,
and they have started to build rig for No.
4. They have been cleaning out No. l for q
week and will start to tube it Monday.
Kennedy, FitzgiDbons & Gardeners No. 8
on the Mertz farm. in southwest McCurdy,
is on top of the fifth sand, but will not be
drilled in before tomorrow.
Phillips & Co. will commence spudding to-
morrow ut their No. l on the Schieb farm
just north of Mellon & Co.'S pump station.
The Forest Oil Company drilled it's No.
Martha Wright deeper yesterday, but did
not improve it. Their No. 8 e. Wright was
also agitated, but went down to 15 barrels.
an hour
Haymaker Bros. & Says No. / on the Moore
property, in southwest McCurdy, is between
the fourth and fifth sand with the tools in
the hole. The able broke yesterday. They
expect to be able to get them out by Tues
day.
McMurray Well to Be Tubed.
Brown, Robson Co. intend to tube their
well on the McMurray property east or
NobIestown. This is the well which started
off at the rate of from IS to 100 barrels an
hour, but Went off within week to about |
100 barrels day. One of the owners said |
yesterday: 'We struck considerable salt |
water in the Hundred foot and some in the |
Gordon sand, and now we believe that the |
water has gone down and is holding the oil |
back in the rock. We will tube it, and |
start to flowing again almost as good as it |
did at first" |
The Jolly Oil Company is down 800 feet in
its well on the bridge lot, across the railroad |
from the station al Noblestown.
Harris Co.'s we'll on the schoolhouse lot |
at the Jumbo mines,w of Mcdonald about |
a mile, is drilling at Is feet in the Gordon |
sand without showing for a producer 1t |
has made few flows and there are several |
hundred feet of oil in the hole. It will be |
drilled to the fifth sand.
Shay & Smiths we'll, down at Sistersyille,
was reported yesterday to be showing lit |
tie better than it has been heretofore, and |
the owners are now almost certain OF get
ting good well.
The Emery Oil Company's we'll on the
Hissem farm is drilling for second pay but |
had failed to reach it yesterday.
Fifth Sand at Independence
INDEPENDENcE-Davis & Co. have cased OF |
the salt water in the well on the Mcconnell
farm and are now two bits in the Gordon
sand,
Mellon & Co. have another fishing job at
their well on the Boles farm. The tools are
in the hole with Couple of hundred feet of
cave above them.
Carr Bros. are on the top of what they
claim is the fifth sand at their well on the
Beall farm. The drillers have been telling
the neighbors that, the sand is coarse and
full of pebbles They have no OIL however
The Columbus Oil Company has COM
menced to spud on the Smith farm near |
Atchison, five miles southeast of this place
and three miles from the Taylorstown field.
Greenlee & Forst have not yet commenced |
to SpIQ on the Beall- -hnOO 1arm, on account
OF some hitch in the lease. The rig has
been finished for ten days
Fritz & Sammels will start to build rig
on the Liggett brothers farm Monday The
lumber is ON the ground.
Personal
E. N. Southwick, Henry Blair, Warren
Lesh and David Kehoe will leave tomorrow
for Gillette, Wyoming, to drill
water wells for the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad. They have recently been
drilling at Willow Grove. Southwick and
Blair belong in Bradford, where the former
was Chief of the Fire Department. in the
palmy days.
Production and the Gauges
The estimated production of the field
Wednesday morning compiled from gauges
was 2s, 900 barrels, decline of 600 from the
day before. The hourly gauges were as
follows: Jennings, Guffey Co.'S No Mat
tliews 25; Heron No. 4, 40 Guffey & Queens
Nos. l and Wetmore, 20; No. l. Samuel
W etmore, 60: Devonian Oil Company's Nos
and Boyce, 45 Oakdale Oil Company's
No. 2 Morgan heirs, 25; Nos. and Baldwin,
IS: Nos. l and Wallace, 35;, Forest Oil Com
pany's No. NJ. Wright, 80; Gu1fey, Murphy
& Co.'S Nos. and Sam Sturgeon, 25:pro-
iuction, 2S, 900; stock in the field, 81, 900.
The runs OF the SOuthwe Pennsylvania |