Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-21
M'D0NALD DROPS OFF.
Production of the Field Declined
1000 Barrels Yesterday.
NEW WELLS ARE NOT HOLDING UP
The Forest Oil Company Has Two Wells Due
in the Fifth To-Day.
REPORTS FROM SCATTERED POOLS

The boom in McDonald's production was
put furnished by the pipe line gauges was
only %, 500 or 1000 barrels less than the day
before. No wells were dropped, while one
was added to the list of those making 20 bar
rels an hour or more.
Lynch, Buchheit & Co.'s No. l on the Meise
farm dropped from 35 to 80 barrels an hour.
The Oakdale Oil Company's No. 2, on the
Morgan farm, was agitated and increased
from 20 to 80 an hour.
Forst & Greenlee's No. O. on the McMurray
farm which was reported to be making 80
barrels an hour Thursday had fallen off to 25
an hour decline of IS an hour, or l,320 bar
rels a day.
Their No. 1 on the National Coal Company,
which was shot Thursday afternoon and re-
sDonded by starting off ut so barrels an hour,
was placed in the gauges yesterday and re-
ported to be making 25 barrels an hour.
The nearest well in yesterday afternoon
was the Forest Oil Company's No. !, on the
f,nI,' sc9tt iarm wniGn %as only rev 1set
fore midnight
Their No. 2 on the Jane Stewart property
was through the fourth sand and may get
the filth to-day.
Rig Burned on the McKeown.
The ri- at the No. !, on the McKeown
the ground yesterday. 1t took fire from gas
in the salt sand. They are drilling three
other wells on this farm, one of which is in
the salt sand.
Forst & Greenlee shot their No. in the
Gordon sand, on the Wade farm south of
Mcdonald. and 1t responded by starting off
at the rate OF 100 barrels an hour.
The Woodland Oil Company's No. on the
Crawford, and No. Scott, located two miles
southwest OF Mcdonald, are shut down in
the Gordon, waiting to be packed.
Forst Grcenlee's No. l. on the Marshall &
No on the Marshall lease No. !, and No. l
ON the Bartey lot, are each due to get the
Gordon sand to-day or Monday. Their No.
on the No Marshall lease is down 400 feet,
and they have n fishing job at No. 2 on the
Marshall & Chalfant lease.
Malarkey & McMnllin's No. on the Free
man lease, west of Oakdale, is due in the
second sand early next week
Gardiner Go. expect to get the fifth sand
in their No Kennedy, northeast of Oakdale,
br next Wednesday.
Jennings, Guffey 6 Co.'S No. 4, Matthews
helrs, Is reported light in the fifth.
In some Outlying Fields.
F. E. Boden 6 Co.'S No 5. on the Stevenson
farm, was due yesterday afternoon, but at a
late hour nothing had been heard from it,
Their No. 8, on the Linton farm, should be
finished up by the middle of next week.
OIL CITY-The well of Rhodes, Burns, Rey-
nolds & Co., on the Columbia farm, near the
ola Rynd was turned into a tank at 3 o'clock
Thursday afternoon: and by o'clock it had
put % barrels of oil in the tank
Kirkwood & Co. are in the sand on an
other part of the same farm. The lease is in
the old Oil Creek region.
A well is being drilled in the town of Mer-
GER by a local company. Salt water was
struck at COS feet, which leads the enthusi-
asts to believe that oil will be the next
fluid developed. Old oil men regard salt
n nn nc ci-
OF something else.
WEST EL1zADETH-Gillespie Bros. have
started well on the Alexander Mcclure
farm, at Boston, for the Philadelphia Com
pany.
John A. Snee has made location on the
Wright farm in Forward township 1t is on -,
the river front, q short distance below Parke
station, on the Mckeesport and Bellevernon
Railroad, and about half mile below Lock
No. 8. 1t is located for oil. Woodward No.
!, in Lincoln township. is down about LsOO
feet and the rig Is being built at Woodward
No. 2. The first rig was burned. Drilling.
has been started at Calhoun. On the west side
Snee's Roberts well, which came in Wednes-'
day, is good gasser. The tools in Wylie No.
3are stuck on top of the sand. The Phfla-
delphia Company has started a well on the
Reed farm.
The Mcdonald Giuses.
The following estimates were submitted
by the gaugers of the Southwestern Penn
sylvania Pipe Line Company:
The production of the field was % 500, or
1000 less than the day before The hourly
gauges were as follows: Matthews No 3.
20; Forest Oil Companys No. Jane Stewart,
%; j. NJ. Guffey & Co.'S No. 2 McMichael, e5;
Lynch & Co.'S No. Meise. 30: Morgan No 9
30: Peoples Gas Company's No. 12S McMur-
raw, %; Forst Greenlees's No. 9 McMurray.
35 No. l Coal Company, 25. Production,
o., 800 Stock in field So 000
The runs of the Southwestern Pennsyl-
vania Pipe Line Company from Mcdonald
Thursday were 20, 925: outside of Mcdonald,
1850. The National Transit runs were 81 325:
shipments, q. C6s New York Transit ship,
ments were IS 206. Macl1sburg division of
the Buckeye Pipe Line Company, 1,G4: Buck
eye runs 40054: shipments, IS, I67. Southern
Pipe Line shipments. 4I653 Eureka runs,
1907; shipments, $685.
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