Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
ONLY ONE OIL WELL
Was Reported in the Southwestern
Fields Yesterday.
IT IS LOCATED NEAR VENICE
No Changes Made in the Undercliff Thirty
Foot District.
NEWS FROM AROUND s1sTERsv1LLE

There were Dut lew changes yesterday In
the Pennsyivania oil fields. No wells of
any consequence were brought in, and the
general production was not increased.
The only we'll In the Mcdonald. field re-
ported to be making 20 barrels an hour yes
terday was the Peoples Gas Company's No
1856 on the Dixon farm, located south OF
willow Grove.
The estimated production was given as
%, 900 barrels, which is the same as the day
before.
Sistersville runs were given as II, 44 bar
rels.S
Greenlee & Forst's we'll on the Oak Ridge
Coal Company's property was reported as
having gone up from 10 to Is or 20 barrels an
The Philadelphia Company got showing
OF oil yesterday in its No. on the Stirling
farm. near Venice five miles south OF Nc
Donald. They struck the Oil in the 5ofoot
sand.
The Devonian Oil Company was on top of
sand last evening in its No. 8, on the J. W..
Robb farm, and in No. 9, on the Elliott
heirs.
Patterson & Sohn made an effort yester-
day to drill in their well on the Erhmen-
trout farm, near Undercliff, but owing to
the gas and the difficulty in getting water to
the bottom OF the hole, they made but little
headway.
There are reports in circulation of a
couple of good wells in Doddridge county,
W. Va, but nothing definite can be learned
regarding their capacity, or the sand in
which the oil. If any, was found. There is
some excitement in the vicinity according
to the late reports.
Wells at Sistersville.
s1srERsv1ILE-J. NJ Guffey, Russell & Nc.
Mullen are down 1000 feet in well on Elk
Fork creek, located eight miles east of Sis
tersville.
The Emery Oil Company's No. 4whitten,
on the Ohio side of the river and north of
the other wells In the field. is good for 300
barrels day.
II is reported that there are so drilling
wells, 80 rigs up and building and ITO pro-
ducing wells in this field.
S. S. Wilson Is down nearly ], 700 feet in his
wildcat well in Wayne county, w. Va.
HAMBURG, N. Y.-The test gas we'll which
is being put down on the Cooper Ridge tract.
near this place, is showing good. II it is q
will drill number of other wells.
MADIsoN-James Deeds finished a dry hole
on the Ehret farm, near this place, yester-
day.
The Gauges.
The production of Mcdonald was 10000
yesterday. the same as the day before. The
hourly gauges of the largest wells at McDon-
aid yesterday were as follows: Peoples
Gas Company's N o. 155 Dixon. 90 The es-
timated production was 10000; stock in field,
1900.
Tne runs from the sistersville field were
Il, ,4H barrels on Tuesday.
Runs and Shipments Tuesday.
The Tuesday runs of the National Transit
Company were S2,735: shipments, 1874
Southwest runs from Mcdonald were 15s4s;
outside of Mcdonald, 1854; total 23,5ll
buckeye Pipe Line runs from the Macks-
burg field, 1897: shipments, 4s. Buckeye
runs of Lima oil, 80, 746 shipments, 4l,4l5
Eureka Pipe Line runs 1881; shipments
1887. Southern Pipe Line shipments, l6,20L
New York Transit shipments, 4s,759.
The Western and Atlantic lines ran 3,64S
barrels Tuesday; Shipments 2,3s2.
The runs of the W. L. Mellon lines on Tues
day were 9s25: receipts from other lines,
575: total receipts. 10, 400; shipments, 1885.
The runs OF the Tidewater Pipe Line Com
pany on Monday were 5,042 total for the
month, 50,sS7 average. 1888: shipments
30,66l; total, l23, $50: average, 1855.
The Oil Market.
Range OF the November option: Opening,
6lo; highest. 5lNc; lowest. 5lc: closing,
51c. Sales, 10000; clearances. 81. 900.
Refined oil-New York, &c; London, 4z4@
l5-l6d: Antwerp, 1877
NEW YORK, Oct. 19.-The petroleum mar
ket opened dull and continued quiet and
steady throughout the day. Pennsylvania
oil, spot sales, none; November option
5000 barrels at Sic. Lima OIL, sales none; l7c
bid. Total sales, 1000 barrels.