Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-26

gaugers to have dropped from go to 35 barrels
| an hour.
TSs yensas sss on ~ .6s which s sn
| pany, has a peculiar suit on its hands, Il
has been sued for IS. 900 damages by W. F.
| Woods, q farmer living south of Mcdonald
| Wheeling, said yesterday: 1--WE have the
farm of Mr.. Woods leased and have drilled
one well upon it.
| Trouble Over Reservation.
'Tn the lease is a clause that we are not to
dril W within 40 rods, or $50 feet, Of the house
the west, is the Wade on which the Rock
| land Oil Company has drilled producing
| well near the Woods farm line. Now Mr..
his farm to Offset that OF the Rock
land Oil Company, bnt. to do thi.
| we would have to drill within AZ
to allow us to do. In TACT. he orders us to
drill, and then refuses to consent, and we
are in quandary. He bases his claim foI
damages on the supposition that the Rock
the sand under his farm, and that he is los
ing money bec"use we do not put down a
| we'll"
| The Wheeling's No. on the W. B. Moor
| land farm is shut down on account of a lack
of water. Their No Robbins is down 1,2o0
feet. They are starting we'll on the May
No William Patterson in the same locality.
1t is being put down to Offset their No. ]
Gifen, which is producers from the fourth
sand.
The Forest Oil Company's No. 2 on the
Gregg farm was reported last evening to be
making only IS barrels an hour. They have
started No. 4 on the McClelland farm east of
On<dale.
THIS company will soon have five strings
OF tools running on as many different farms,
southeast of Verona on the P!nhook anti
on the Colgan, Caldwell and Ryan, and they
are starting on the Hamill and on the
snively farms.
New Work at SistersviIle.
SIsrERsvILLE-Friday,K Keil & Co. are on top
Of the sanu on the Schiever farm, three
miles south Of this place. johnson & Duel
are shut down on the Moore for water.
Gillespie Bros well on the Stocking farm is
reported to be pumping 25 barrels q day.
Shannon, Pratt & Brenneman are down
16O0 feet on the McCOach, and 900 on the
Stewart Apple, Mercer. Patty & Co. are
drilling two wells on the E. Wells farm
below town, and have located two more.
Brenneman and Forsyths' No. Thistle is
down 900 feet, and they are spudding in
Noe.
Run Oil Company, is starting from eight to
ten new wells on the Ohio side of the river,
and Captain Jones Is starting IL on the Ohio
side Duels well On the island Ia is making 70
Station, four miles up the river, is dry and
has been abandoned.
Parkersburg and Marietta capitalists have
leased $500 acres in Ohio opposite Neales
Island and started we'll in which oil is re-
ported to have been struck at a depth of
700 feet. Other wells are being started.
Personal
A. B. Daily, superintendent for the Wheel
ing Gas Company, has gone to Asbury Park
c. d. Greenlee, of the firm OF Forst &
Greenlee, is taking vacation with his family
at Mountain Lake Park.
James Robinson, superintendent of the
tank guaging department at Bradford, was
In Pittsburg yesterday.
The Gauges
The production of Mcdonald was IS 900 yes
terday, OF SEQ less than the day before
The hourly gauges of the larger wells at Nc
Donald yesterday were as follows: Sinclair
Oil Company's Nos. and 2, 20; Greenlee &
Forst's No. McMurray, 20; No 6 Marshall,
35; Forest Oil Company's No. Gregg, 20.
The estimated production was $1,000; stock
in the field, Al, 500
Runs and Shipments.
National Transit Company runs were %, ,6s7;
shipments, 20,460.
Southwest Pennsylvania runs from Nc
Donald were 1880. Outside of Mcdonald,
10s61 Buckeye runs, Macksburg division,
4,023; shipments. none. Shipments from the
Lima division, 57,095; runs. 49, ,34l. The Eureka
runs were L, ,0s7; shipments, 2,347. Southern
Pipe Line shipments, 9,075. New York Tran
sit shipments, 81, $685.
The Tidewater Pipe Line runs were 1859
barrels; total, s5, l55 barrels; average for
month, 3548 barrels. The shipments were
g. 24l barrels; total, 1s9, ,591 barrels; average,
1889 barrels.
The runs from sistersville Tuesday were