Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-07
OPENED WITH A SHOT.
Mercer e. McClurg's Well Doing rs
Barrels an Hour at Present.
NITRO-GLYCERINE FREELY USED,
Big Gusher Developed on the Lumber Yard
Lot at Noblestown.
GORDON SANDER AT WILLOW GROVE

That 100 quarts of nitro-glycerine will
tear hole in the earth and change the as
pect of a we'll was demonstrated at Mobiles
town yesterday.
When Mercer, McClurg & Co. drilled
their No. 1, on the McMurry seven acres,
through the fifth sand Monday, and it
showed for little or nothing in that rock,
the owners felt that only heroic treatment
would bring it to life. 1t was showing for
80 or 100 barrels in the Gordon sand, but
this was only an aggravation when the
wells on either side of it were doing from
10 to 25 barrels an hour from the fifth
sand.
Yesterday afternoon Mercer & McClurg
went to the well and put in 100 quarts of
glycerine. After the shot went off they
waited half an hour without getting re-
sponse. The tools were then run, and the
put out its product by spasmodic efforts,
but rolled it into the tank in q regular
stream, which, last evening, was estimated
by conservative operators at 25 barrels an
hour.
There was big lot of glycerine used in the
vicinity of Noblestown yesterday. Four
wells within stones throw OF each other
were shot. Greenlee Forst's No. l. on their
No. Marshall lease. their No. l McGrady,
and Vesey & Murray's well, ON the McMur-
raw. were also torpedoed.
The No. l, on the No. Marshall lease. had
been making ten barrels an hour, and is
located about 400 feet southwest of Mercer &
McClurg's well.
Lumber Yard Well Gusher.
Another gusher was added to the list yess
terday. It belongs to Iseman & Co., or the
Lumber Yard Oil Company, and is located
in the eastern edge Of Noblestown, and
north of the railroad.
Late Tuesday night they reached paw in
the fifth sand, and 1t started to flow ut the
rate of 40 barrels an hour. At times during
the night the men at the we'll claimed that
it made as high as ll5 barrels an hour The
pipe line gauges taken yesterday morning
place it ut 45 barrels an hour.
This well is north OF Brown. Robson 6 Co.'s
No. McMurray about 500 feet,and from 100 to
800 ieet northwest of Greenlee & Forst's No.
on the National Coal Company's property.
North OF the lumber yard we'll n couple of
hundred feet is the Little Oil Company's
well on the the Little property. 1t was
ago, but as a well north of it few hundred
feet was dry in the fl :th, the Little Oil Com
pany made Gordon pumper of its well.
They intend now to drill it to the fifth sand.
Struck Hard Column.
The Bear Creek Refining Company's No 8,
on the Campbell farm. located between the
Wettengell well of Guffey, Russell, McMullen
& Co. and the lumber yard well, was abont
six feet in the fifth sand yesterday afternoon
was located for one of the best wells in the
Noblestown pool. 1t is possible that lower
pay may be struck, or that it has been
drilled through hard pillar of sand similar
to that found in Mercer & McClurg's well.
A hard column of sand was also found in
hussler, Davis Bolts No. on the Boyce
farm, in Southwest McCurdy. 1t was dry all
the way through the sand, but when shot
started off at 20 barrels all hour.
The Jolly Oil Company has bailer In
the hole at its we'll on the bridge lot.
One of the owners claimed last night
that there had been an increase in its gas
after the shots were put into the we'll of
Mercer & NIcClurg, and Greenlee & Forsts'
No. l on the No. 2 Marshall lease. 1t is from
300 to 500 feet distant from them.
The shot put in to uffey, Russell & McMul-
lens Wettengel well Tuesday increased its
production from 20 to so barrels an hour.
Gordon Sander at Willow Grove.
Hite & Hothiaus we'll near the school
house lot in the eastern part of Willow
Grove was reported to be in the Gordon
sand yesterday morning and showing for
Kennedy, Miller & Co.'S well on the Pry
lot at Willow Grove, which was drilled to
the fifth sand, increased its production
was small in the Gordon sand.
The Royal Gas Company's No. on the |
Sauters & Patterson property, west OF |
the fifth and making about Is barrels a day. |
w. P. Rend is drilling his No. at Laurel |
Hill to the fifth sand.
The Forest Oil Companv's test we'll on the |
Stirling farm, south of Willow Grove, was in |
The 100-fo sand yesterday.
Guffey & Queens No. g. on the H. II. Wet |
more farm north and west OF Oakdale, has |
to flow from the fifth sand and |
IS good for about Is barrels day. 1t is too |
much of gasser in the fifth to be shot.
Millison, Fried Miller's No. 2, on the |
Henry Shaffer farm, in the western part of |
The McCurdy field, was expected to reach |
The fifth sand last night.
Patterson & Jones' No. 8. on the old Nc |
1urdy farm, is due in the fifth to-day Their |
No. Kelso is good for about 100 barrels u
lay.
T. P. Thompson, one of the best known |
brokers' that ever made trade on the floor
If the Bradford Exchange, was in Pittsburg
James NJ. Lambing, who was sworn in as
Mayor of CORY Monday to serve his second
erui, was in Pittsburg yesterday looking
after his Ajax engines.
The Mcdonald Gauges.
The following estimates were submitted
~ the CANCERS of the Southwestern Penn.
ylvania Pipe Line Company.
The production of the field was % 9,500
100 more than the day before. The hourly
,auges were as follows: Matthew'S |
40. 8, 20; Jennings, Guffey & Co.'S HERON
10. 4. SO; Devonian Oil Company's Nos. and
Boyce, %; Oakdale Oil Companv's Nos. 2
md Baldwin, As: Forest Oil Company's No.
NJ Wright. 30 No. l Jane Stewart, Is; Rus
ell McMullen & Co.'S No. Wettengel, so;
Ireenlee & Forst No. l National Coal Com
,any, 55; No. l McMurray, SIS: Lumber Yard
Dill Company's No. l, As; production, $500.
stock in field, $500.
The runs of the Southwest Pennsylvania
Pipe Line Company from Mcdonald Tues
lay were 2s, ,370 outside OF Mcdonald, IO, ,740.
The National Transit runs were 4O, 032; ship
nents, 1861. Southern Pipe Line ship
nents, 1908. New York Transit shipments,
0Sl2. Eureka shipments, LAS; runs. 662I
division of the Buckeye P. L. Co. !
80 Buckeye runs, 90 322 Shipments 26,95s.
Yesterdays Market Features.
There was some improvement in the trad
Rg, but the opening price was not main