Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-22
HALF NOT YET TOLD.
An Expert Says the PinhOok
Field Guarantees Gas for
Years to Come.
NEW ERA IN THE BUSINESS
The District Gives Evidence of Great
Staying Qualities.
ANOTHER BIG WELL BROUGHT IN.
Business Men Hopeful and Speak of Bene-
fits in the Future.
NEW ERA IN THE BUSINESS
ANOTHER BIG WELL BROUGHT IN.
LEASING GROUND IN THE TERRITORY

lore Deen worked, was Illustrated yeSter-
day by the great strike on the Equitable
Company's land at Milltown, just
one mile southeast of the development or
the Leopold farm. This, the Kidd we'll
makes the field now open two miles in
length, extending from the Hess farm to
Milltown. When the tools were withdrawn
yesterday the well practically continued to
drill itself, the force of the gas
throwing out the sand Experts
claim that it is the strongest we'll struck in
any gas region for the past five years. II
will be several DAYS before the pressure OF
the well can be taken, and it is believed
that from the immense rock pressure III
all the region of the Pinhook range there
should not for years be a shortage of gas
for Pittsburg consumers The Woodside
well is due to-day.
The big holders of this territory are the
Philadelphia Company, which has 1,7O0
acres; the Equitable, $50 acres; the Peo-
pies, zoo acres; the Carnegies, 1000 acres
and the Kensington Improvement Com
pany 1000 acres. The southern end of
the field near Williamsburg. where the
pioneer work was done and where the
lighter gassers were struck, is owned by
John NJ. Patterson and Say & Liggett. This
makes five large producing wells in this
field.
The Story Told BY an Expert.
That the reports from the Pinhook dis
trict have not been exaggerated, the fol-
lowing letter will bear witness It
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ployer, and for the present his name
is withheld, but it will appear in THE DIS
PATCH shortly. He is now making an ex-
animation of the field, and the letter is the
result of his observations so far. The ex-
pert is reliable man who has made correct
predictions in other districts. Here is
what he says, and it is given as it was
written:
Are you acquainted with the reporter for
TIE DISPATCH who has written the articles
in Yesterdays and today's issues of that
paper concerning the recent gas strikes on
the Pinhook anti-clinal back of Verona? IF
so, l wish you would do me the favor to say
to HIM that the half hath not been told him as
to the probabilities of the future outcome of
the gas areas carried on the back and slopes
OF the Pinbook uplift. In neither OF the
articles referred to was any mention made
whatever of the great Crooked creek gas
district on the same Pinbook axis 10 miles
northeast of Bagdad on the Allegheny
Valley road along the Kiskfminetas river.
Gas Found in the Fifth sand.
In the sketch in Sundays issue the fifth
sand of the Pinhook folding was con-
founded with the yenango first
sand which is the Murraysville
sand. The gas areas now opened on the
above mentioned anticlinal are in the fl fth
kiminetas, on Plum and Sandy creeks,
the other north of the Kiskimfnetas, on
Crooked Creek, y in Armstrong county, the
two fields being about Is to 20 miles apart,
The stratum from which both these fields
are getting their supplies is unique in the
history of the gas business. 1t has been tab
below the ferriferous limestone on Crooked
Creek. The sand may be the
lowest member OF the Nenango group.
or the top member of the Warren group, or
it may be an intermediate stray not belong
ing to either. At any rate it persists for 90
miles that we know OF, and the two
largest gas fields in the State
are getting their supplies from the same
stratum and on the same rock folding.
50 that the Pinhook axis is distinctly
fifth sand axis.
The wells belonging TO the Pittsburg Plate
Glass Company on Crooked creek have an
enormous rock pressure and great volume
as well. As the latter depends on the por-
oslty of the sand rock, it is only
question of gravel bed, and the volume or
minute pressure will exceed that of any gas
fields ever discovered. just think OF a rock
pressure Of I5oO pounds, or greater even
than that.
Probabilities of Great Field.
The fact that the wells in Armstrong
county, on Crooked creek on the Pfnhook
are producing from this newly
discovered fifth sand, and the wells back of
Verona in Allegheny county, are also
producing from the same sand
whole stretch of territory lying between
these two deposits, distance of say 20
miles, may be underiaid with this
creek the sand is 80 feet thick, and increases
in thickness to the southwest along
the trend Of the uplift. That
is the guarantee for great staying Qualities
in the fields opened at the two noints
named. From what we already know
OF the staying nature of the gas
justified in assuming that we are entering
upon a new and long-lived era in the natural
gas business. The Pittsburg Plate Glass
Company and the Eastern Oil Company a
Buffalo syndicate, are developing the
Crooked creek field, and the stretch of the
living between Crooked creek and
the klskiminetas is all under lease and will
be developed in due time.
Now, let your reporter-fiend of THE DIS
FATCH look over this hastily written letter.
md Gull out whatever he may deem worthy
Dt a place in the columns of his paper. 1
wouldn't have written anything about it,
but l felt that only half of the facts
had been given to the public, and that they
are entitled to any acts that give us reason
to hope for a continue tion of natural gas as
q fuel in the future.
Cutting Down Rio Gus r2iu
Little reference has been made to the big
we'll struck by the Pittsburg Plate Glass
Company about eight miles from Ford City |
two months ago Since that time up |
until two weeks ago, when another |
gasser was brought in, the single |
we'll supplied the town and the plate |
glass factory with fuel The town is |
quite large, and there was gas to
spare. One can get a good idea of the
strength Of the well from the fact that
Major Beale, Of Leechburg, before the
gas was struck shipped daily to Ford
Jity from 200 to 400 tons
If coal, but since then he hasn't sold a
pound in the town. Neither the people nor
he company had any use for coal. This
veil is in the Pinhook district
j. K. Beatty, of MurraysyilIe, the field
nan for the Philadelphia com pany, was
cen at the st. James last evening He was
n a facetious humor, and wanted
o know how much of rake
A The DISHATCH man received
or writing up the field. He said, however,
hat every statement made in this
aper about the pressure, ETC., was
orrect, ''but he added cautiously,
rock pressure of 900 pounds in a we'll is
ot an indication that it will be a yerv pro-
uctive field. should say that the Pinhook
istrict promises to be fair and good terri
Dry. The Equitable well brought in to-day