Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-04
FROM THE THIRD SAND
The Wildcat Well on the Cubbage
Farm Is Dry in the Gordon.
MEISE WELL IS REPORTED DRY.
Production of Mcdonald Dropped Yesterday
to 2I,5O0 Barrels.
RIGS BLOWN DOWN AROUND BUTLER

| There was another tumble at Mcdonald
| yesterday and last night the production was
reported to be down to q 500 barrels, de-
| cline of 500 since Monday. There are only
six wells in the list at the foot of this col
umn, and these are supposed to be the only
wells in the field which are making 20 bar
rels an hour or more.
The combined output Of these six wells is
$50 barrels an hour or 1920 day, which
leaves 17,lSO barrels for tho other $50 odd
wells in the field, which gives them an aver
Lynch, Buchheit & Co.'S advance well on
the Meise farm, south of Willow Grove, is
the biggest well reported in the field at pres
ent. 1t is given in the guages below as max
ing 80 barrels all hour. This is from the
Gordon sand.
James Gormley came from the we'll yester-
day afternoon and stated that the employees
at the well claimed that it was making from
80 to 35 barrels an hour, but that in his own
opinion it was not making over 20 barrels an
hour. 1t was only flowing once in every 40
or 81 minutes, and that was through 5-1nch
casing.
The Devonian Oil Company's test we'll on
the Cubbage farm, which is located about
two miles south and west from the Meise
well. was drilled through the Gordon sand
yesterday and was dry in that formation.
In Undeveioped Territory.
1t is practically a wildcat and was being
closely watched by number of lease-hold-
ers in that region who have been hoping
that a well would be found in the Gordon
sand. 1t is southwest of the big Gordon
sanders which were tapped on the W. B.
Moorhead farm, and it was believed that it
might tap Gordon pool that would extend
from the Meise to the Moorhead and thence
to the Cubbnge.
The Woodland Oil Company expects to
next week. 1t is located two miles
southwest of Mcdonald, and only short
distance north of the wildcat which Knox
Bros, Apple s Elyea drilled on the Scott
farm, and which is good for about 100 barrels
q day from the fifth sand.
The Forest OIL Company's wildcat on the
Gregg farm, located south of the railroad at
Gregg station, is through the Gordon sand
and dry in that rock. 1t should be in the
fifth sand by Saturday.
Greenee Forsts No. on the National
been shot and will not be better than 125
barrels day well. 1t is only few hundred
teet south of their No. l. which made as
high as 100 barrels an hour. Their Nos. Sand
on the GLADDEN. farm south of Mcdonald
may be in the Gordon the last of this week.
The Bear Creek Refining Company's No.
on the Lorain farm. in the western part of
the McCurdy held, is on top of the Gordon
sand.
Guffey, Russell & McMullen's No. 3 Wet
tengei is in the Gordon.
Hussler, Davis & Bott are starting No. 8
on the Boyce farm in McCurdy. Their No. 4
is making about 20 barrels an hour.
Many Rigs Blown Down.
BUTLER-Many rigs have been blown down
this week all over the Butler field by minia-
ture tornados. The Forest Oil Company has
been the heaviest loser, and so tar it is re-
ported to have lost Is rigs Campbell & Co.
lost I; Friday Oil Company, 2; Gnckert &
Co., 2; Patterson Oil Company, ], and An.
drewS & Son. g.
Guckert & Steele have just finished up
west of Zelienope and the other is four
miles east OF Harmony. The boiler at their
No. Meyer exploded yesterday morning.
No one was injured.
Personal.
W. S. Guffey, of the firm of Guffey & Queen,
has lust returned from a trip through the
South.
The Mcdonald Gauges.
The following estimates were submitted
by the gaugers of the Southwestern Pennsyl-
vania Pipe Line Company:
The production of the field was q, 800 OF 500
less than the day before. The hourly gauges
were as follows: Matthews No. B. 20; Devon
ian Oil Company's Nos l and Boyce, 20:
Oakdale OIL Company's Nos. and Baldwin,
20; Forest Oil Company's No. Jane Stewart,
40: j. NJ Guffey s. Co.'s No. McMichael. 80;
el.50O Stock in field, $1,000.
The runs OF the Southwest Pennsylvania
Pipe Line Company from Mcdonald Mon
day were q, 3SS: outside of Mcdonald, 8, 1853.
The National Transit runs were IS 9.5; ship
ments, 1855. New York Transit shipments
were 1854. Macksburg division of the Buck
eye Pipe Line Company, ], ,345. Buckeye runs,
2l,75l: shipments, 34,6l2 Southern Pipe
Line shipments, 40,622 Eureka, 1858.
Moro Oil at sistersvillc.
SIsTERsvILLE, W. VA, May S.-[SpeciaL J.
The well on Fishing creek, about nine miles
northeast of this place, came in to-day and
caused quite little excitement for while.
1t will probably be hundred-barrel well.
The well on the Eaph Wells farm is expect
ed in tonight, and, as it is the lower one on
this side, is being watched with interest.
Yesterdays Market Features.
The close was nearly cent below the
opening. This, in the face of decline in
production, shows a discouraging absence
of outside interest Tho opening was 5SM,
highest 5s4, lowest and close 571% There
was no change in refined Daily average
runs, 81, s2S daily average shipments, 49, ,O92
Oil CITY, PA, May 3.-National Transit cer-
titicates opened at hs54c; highest, 5s4c: low
est, 571%c; closed, 5715c. Sales, 81, ,OO0 bar
rels: clearances, Isl, ,00J barrels; shipments,
l057l5 barrels: runs l03 602 barrels.
NEW YORK, May 3.-Petroeum opened firm,
but declined 1c on Western selling and
closed weak. Pennsylvania oil-Spot no
sales; June option opening at 5sAc; highest,
5s34c: lowest, 57s4c; closing, 57slc. Lima oil
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