Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-07
SMALL OIL WELLS.

No Gushers Produced Yesterday in the
Mcdonald Field-One Good Gasser Re-
ported in the Milltown District-List
of Wells Completed in Ohio and In
diana Recently.
There was another jump yesterday in the
output of the Mcdonald field. It went up
from 20, 500 to 1000 barrels, and two new
wells were added to the list of big ones.
The Forest Oil Company's No. 8, on the
Heron farm, was dropped from the list. 1t
was making only 16 barrels an hour yes
terday, while the day before it was putting
out % barrels an hour.
Forst & Greenlee shot their No. on the
Noble heirs farm and succeeded in bringing
its production up from 10 to 30 barrels an
hour. Their No. 7, on the Marshal farm, was
also given a shot, and according to last ac-
counts was doing 20 l:arrels an hour.
Greenlee & Forst cased their No. on the
Noble heirs farm yesterday and expect TO
case their No. 5 on the same property to-
day. They shot their No. on the Marshal
farm yesterday morning and it is now doing
about five barrels an hour.
Greenlee & Co.'s on the Potter farm, To-
Gated south of Shane in the Meise hollow, is
due to get the Gordon sand to-day.
Small Well on the Mark Robb.
The Royal Gas Company drilled its No. 2,
on the Mark Robb farm, located mile north
of Mcdonald, through the fifth sand yester-
day, and it is good Tor probably l5o barrels a
day.
The Devonian Oil Company's No. 8, on the
j. w. Robb farm, which is only one location
south of the Royal Gas Company's No.
Mark Robb, which made l60 barrels an hour
at the start, is in the bottom of the sand, and
is showing for only 5O-barrel we'll
The Forest Oil Company brought in big
gasser yesterday on the Colgan farm. located
Pinhook field. back of Verona, on the AIle-
gheny Valley Railroad.
The same company's No. 4 on the McClel-
Oakdale is due In the sand this week. Their
No. 4 on the W. &. Heron farm is making l6
barrels an hour.
Indiana and OHIO Wells.
CAMDEN, IND.-A big gas well has just been
finished up on the L. Grissell farm. in section
35 Penn township Jay county, just east of
this place. 1t was drilled 60 feet in the
Trenton limestone without any evidence OF
crude.
The Indiana division of the Ohio Oil Com.
pany has finished up a light gasser on the
Maddox farm, located on the southwest
quarter of section IL. in Harrison township,
Tho Northern Indiana Oil Company has
just completed ten-barrel well on the
Joseph Clendenning farm, in Hartford town
ship, Adams county.
Long & Shugart have finished q light well
on the d. Pontius farm, in Hartford town
ship, Adams county.
BOWLING GREEN O.-The Ohio Oil Com
pany has $40 barrel well on the Anna W.
Cary farm, in Liberty township, Wood
county. Their No. ID on the D. j. Cary farm,
in the same locality, has been shot and Is
good for rs barrels day.
The Brown Oil Company's No. 2, on the
Peter kramp farm. is u l5@barrel pumper.
The Gauges.
The production of Mcdonald was 2l,0OO
yesterday, 500 moro than the day before The
hourly gauges of the largest wells at Nc
Donald yes erday were as follows: Clarke
& CO.. No Freeman 20; Forst & Greenlee's
: No. Noble, IS; No. Marshal, 20. The esti-
mated production was 2l,O00; stock in field,
H,000
Runs and Shipments Wednesday.
The National Transit runs were 2S929:
shipments, 1870 Runs of Southwest Penn
sylvania from Mcdonald, Is. 155: outside of
Mcdonald, SOL; total runs, as.257; Buckeye
runs of Macksburg oil. 6,47O shipments,
ESQ., Buckeye runs of Lima oil, A., 948;
shipments, A, 800; Eureka runs 1851; ship
ments. los; New York transit shipments,
36.066; Southern Pipe Line shipments, 7,77I.
The runs of the Tidewater Pipe Line Com
pany Wednesday were S,c36; total for the