Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-02
MAY BE A NEW STREAK
Brown, Robson & Co.'s Well Starts
at 100 Barrels an Hour.
PROBABLY AN ISOLATED SPOT.
Gufey & Queens No. Sam Wetmore
Jumps to 26O Barrels an Hour.
WELLS NEAR VERONA AND FREEPORT

WELLS NEAk NEkUNA AND FREEPUkT
Brown, Robson & CO. well on the Nc
Murray farm, just east of Noblestowp,
reached the fifth sand at 3 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, and at $50 it had filled 25O-bar-
rel tank. This is at the rate of 100 barrels
an hour.
1t is the biggest surprise in oil
circles of the year and nothing else
was talked about among oil men last
evening Scarcely any attention has been
paid to it by others than the owners as it
was apparently located too far to the east.
1t is east of the railroad track and only
few hundred feet south of the coal tipple,
between Oakdale and Noblestown.
The Gordon sand was reached couple Of
weeks ago, when the hole filled up
with oil, but it did not flow and
since then the drilling has been very slow,
on account of the hole being filled with oil.
The nearest well to it is the Little Oil
Company's on the Little lot, in~the north
ern part of Noblestown, which must
be 1t least 800 feet north of west
from Brown, Robson & Co. s
well. The well on the Little lot
was not drilled below the Gordon sand,
as other wells in that vicinity showed very
poor quality of fifth sand and in one there
was no regular fifth sand found.
The Brown, Robson & Co. well opens
up an entirely new streak, the existence of
Whlch was entirely ,unsuspected. 1t
lines up on 800 line with the Leonard
Shaffer, the Agnes Kemp wells on the
northeast, and the Moorhead well of the
wheeling Gas Company on the south.
s~ May j DIN the Kemp Pool.
Some operators, in speaking of it last
evening, pronounced it as an extension of
the Agnes Kemp and the Sam Sturgeon pools
northeast of Oakdale, but between these and
the Brown, Robson & Co.'s well are
couple OF dry fifth sanders. Last
evening number of lease holders east of
Noblestown were hunting rig builders and
contractors, and there will doubtless be
squirt in operations in that vicinity.
Another feature of the field which was ex-
citing Il great deal of comment last even
ing was Guffey & Queens No. l on the
Samuel Wetmore farm which came in Satur-
day at the rate of so barrels an hour. Yes
terday morning it was drilled deeper into
creased to 260 barrels an hour, which
it was still making at late hour
last evening. This remarkable pool is
just about mile east of north
from the famous wells in the Matthews
hollow, and the size of the wells which have
recently been developed has surprised
everyone connected with the trade.
Guffey & Queens No. on the Mark Robb,
located a few hundred feet to the southwest
of the Wetmore wells, was on top of the
sand last night, and will be drilled in to-
day.
Another Gusher Reported.
There was a report current last evening
that Galley Bros No. on the Walker heirs
farm was in the fifth sand last evening and
making $50 barrels an hour, but it could not
be confirmed. Hoffman & Co.'s No. Moore
was on top of the sand last evening.
The PittSburg Oil Company'S venture on
the Reed farm, three miles southwest of Nc
Donald, was being drilled deeper into the
fifth sand yesterday, when it started to flow
over the derrick. 1t made two such
flows within an hour. More gas
had evidently been found. but the
true condition of the well will hardly be
known for day or two
Hussler Davis & Rotts' No. 9, on the Boyce
farm, in Southwest McCurdy, should be in
the sand this week. The Mansfield Oil Com
pany's well, northeast of Willow Grove, is in
water in the hole.
Greenlee & Forst's No. 9, on the GLADDEN.
farm, is expected to reach the Gordon sand
tom. 1t is located only 400 feet west
the Moorhead, which was a good producer
in the Gordon sand.
Guckert & Steele expect to get the Gordon
on the McKeown property this week.
open1nS new lerrltOry.
Considerable interest is being manifested
in the territory southeast of Verona on the
Allegheny Valley Railroad. Some months
ago the Philadelphia Company drilled a
we'll on the Houghtelin farm, about four
strong symptoms of being a producer.
1t made several good flows Of oil, but |
rs gas was what tine owners were after |
they pulled the casing up joint and let the |
bSt ia n
the well continued to flow occasionally, and |
Is still putting out some oil through the |
water. Oil operators heard of the well |
and soon began leasing the oil rights |
in the vicinity. Deitz Brothers, of |
Allegheny, started a well about two miles |
northeast from the Houghtelin well, and |
have developed big gaser in the speach- |
John M. Patterson Co. are building rig |
On the Huey farm within 800 feet of the |
Houghtelin well, and will drill it as |
ast as possible and thoroughly test the |
territory for oil.
Patterson & Co. are also building a rig |
hear Freeport, and not far from the well |
which developed oil in the 100-foot sand
ew weeks ago.
Production and Runs.
The estimated production yesterday morn
ng was down to 81, 500 barrels, but there is
10 doubt that it will take jump tomorrow
IN account of the wells of yesterday. The
,ourly gauges yesterday were as follows:
Jennings, Guffey & Co.'S No. Matthews, 40;
Heron No. 2, so; Heron No. 4, 80. Guffey g.
lueen's Nos l ana Wetmore 80: No. |
Samuel Wetmore, so. Forst Greenlee's |
Nos and Gamble, 20. Patterson & Jones'
10. Kelso, 25. Devonian Oil Company's |
Nos, and Q Boyce, 40 Oakdale Oil Com
,any's No. 2 Morgan heirs, 80: Nos ana |
Baldwin, 70; Nos. and Q Wallace, 35 Gut-
ey, Galley & Murphy's Nos land Sam
Sturgeon, %. Stock in the field 81, 800.
The runs of the Southwest Pennsylvania
Pipe Line Company from Mcdonald Satur-
lay were $3.50, and on Sunday 1854 bar
els.
Yesterdays Market Features.
Trading vas fair according to the accepted
TO ndard l,ut the nrice steadv O r tho o,>,,, |