Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-30
SHOWING DRAINAGE.
The Forest Oil Company's No. l Camp
bell Is Light in the Gordon.
FOUR GUSHERS EXPECTED TODAY.
Sistersville Wells Casing, and the Field
Going Eastward.
WORK IN THE GAsToNvILLE FIELD

WORK. IN THE GAST0NvILLE FIELD
There was little change in the Mcdonald
field Yesterday, and even some OF the most
sanguine are inclined to believe that the
bottom may be dropping out
the estimated output was q 900 barrels,
the same as the day before. Lynch & Co. 5
old Meise well was reported to have dropped
| from so to 20 barrels an hour.
The Forest Oil Company drilled its No.
on the Mrs. Campbell farm to depth Of ten
feet in the Gordon sand Yesterday, and it is
| still only showing for about 126 barrels q
day. As it is located between the original
Meise well, which has produced many thou
sands Of barrels, and the Forest OIL Com
pany's No. 2, on tho Mrs. Campbell farm,
which is yet making 20 barrels an hour, it
| is generally believed that the poor showing
made by the Campbell No. Il may be due to
| drainage. The owners hope to get pay
streak with deeper drilling. The Forests
No 3, on the John McEwen farm, south OF
Willow Grove, is due in the Gordon to-day.
There are couple of other wells which
| should be in the Gordon to-day. They are
M Guffey Co.'S No on the shane meta farm; m;
Company's No. l, on the Kirk farm.
The Florence Oil Company's No. l. on the
Parsonage Par property VIII get the &c Gordon T
on the John McEwen farm, is 600 feet deep.
Nobl-stown and sistersville.
NoBLBsrowN-weixelK Kennedy. Marshall
& Co.'s No. j, on the Steigligliter, will make
probably 10O-barrel well from the fifth
sand. They are getting ready to tube their
No. 2, on the Roy property. e
Greenlee & Forst's No 8. on the Marshall &
Chalfant lease, half a mile southwest OF this
place, will be in the fifth sand to omorrow.
Malarkey & Co.'S No. Freeman is due this
week.
Greenlee Forst are drilling No. on the
Marshall farm.
Hussler, Davis 4 Bolts No; on the Beyes oss
farm in the lower end OF the McCurdy held,
is drilling in the 100-foot
Millison, Fried Co.'s No. 4 Sha1fer, is ex-
pected to get the fifth sand this afternoon,
The Greensburg OIL Company will drill in
q we'll at Midway this week.
The Devonian Oil Companys No. on the
Jackson farm at Burgettstown was on top
of the sand yesterday.
G. w. Stocking farm. mile east Of the big
wells above town, was gassing very strongly
yesterday, and one of the firm said yester-
day that they would hardly be able to drill
so far discovered in ssSistersville have been
big gassers at the start, and this leads the
Gillespie Bros. to believe that they will soon
score one Of the big ones. X. G. Gillespie has
personal charge of their work in Sistersv1le.
McFadden's we'll, on the Thistle farm, was
reported yesterday to be good for 100 barrels
q day from the first pay.
Ludwig & MONEYS well, on the Dunfey
farm, was In the first pay and showing oil.
All these wells are east of the previous de-
velopments.
Charley Duels venture on Wells Island,
below town, was reported in the sand yes
terday and gassing heavily.
Warrington County Ga.sers.
GAsToNvILLE-Littlen notice has been taken
of this field for some time. There have been
nearly 90 wells completed in this locality
and others are being started.
The divers completed the last well. 1t is
on the Hunter Iarm, and they got good
gasser in the salt sand at 1000 feet.
The Carnesies' well, on the. Kerr, is almost
The divers have started to drill on the
Joseph Estep, near the Hunter iarm.
The Philadelphia Company has com
vile. One is on tho Thomas McGowan and
the other on the Jacob Legler farm. The
Weller we'll has been put down to the fifth
sand. in which they got an increase of gas.
farm, is in and a fair gassef. 1t has been
turned into their lines.
John A. Snee is down 600 feet on the John
Houston farm Oil is looked for in this
venture.
U. ~. q
Forst, is in Cincinnati. He is a delegate from
Butler to the Prohibition National Conven-
ton.
H. B. Anderson who was in the McCurdy
field for the past two years, has resigned
and accepted q position as superintendent
for Marshall, Kennedy & Co. Mr. Anderson
has been IN the oil REGIONS for years. and Is
one of the most popular and widely known
men in the business.
E. E. Smathers. an old upper country pro-
ducer, is visiting in Pittsburg. He is now a
Of the Chicago aa Board 0 Taae f5a
wood field by his wildcat well on the old
Whitesell farm, has returned from Chihua-
hua, Mexico, where he owns what is claimed
to be tho best silver mine in Northern
Mexico
Harvey Rose, who was in the oil well tool
manufacturing business in Bradford for
supplies for an electric plant which he is
putting up in Bradford.
Mayor James NJ. LamDing, Of Cory, came
to Pittsburg yesterday to meet few of his
tics, and says Cory will flatter the Repub-
lican Presidential nominee with the vote it
will give him.
The Mcdonald Gauges
The following estimates were submitted
by the gaugers of the Southwestern Penn
sylvania Pipe Line Company:
The production of the field yesterday was
q, 900 or the same as the day before. The
hourly gauges we're as follows: Lynch &
Co.'s No. Meise, Is: Oakdale Oil Co.'s No
Morgan, 30; Forest OIL Co.'s No. campbell,
20; Friday, Keil Co.'s No. Mrs. Robb. 80;
Porter Oil Co.'S No. Miller & McBride. 20.
The stocks at the wells are reported at
56,O 600 barrels. The runs from Mcdonald
Tuesday were 19,S03 barrels. Outside of
Mcdonald the Southwest Pipe Line runs
were l3 566 National Transit runs. 27,51l;
shipments. 1894; New York Transit ship
ments, 35 739: Southern Pipe Line. 80 646; Eu-
reka runs, 949l: shipments, $500; Buckeye
shipments of Lima oil, 5l,A3 Buckeye runs
of Lima oil. 6l.59s; Macksburg runs, 2,446;
shfpmen ts, none.
The Tidewater runs for Monday and
Tuesday were 10, 553; total, IL 179; average for
month, 4.0O6 The shipments for the month
are 1877 Alb: and the average $685.
The National Transit runs Monday were
ss s217 barrels.
Yesterdays Market Features.
Trading was light and the finish at the
lowest point of the day. The opening and
highest was 53ll, lowest aad close 90. Refined
was unchanged. Daily average runs, 77i26;
daily average shipments, 67.226.
OIL CITY, June 90 National Transit GER
tif1cates opened at 531sc; highest, 531<c; low
est 525sc; closed. 5251c. Sales, 1900 barrels;
clearances, 10000 barrels: shipments, 100 62l
barrels: runs, l31. 545 barrels.
NEW YORK, June 29.-The petroleum mar