Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-20
OIL AND DUST FOUND.
Two Producers and Two Dry Holes
Developed Yesterday.
BOTH BUSTERS NEAR OAKDALE.
A Couple of Producers Expected To-Day,
With others TO Follow Soon.
REPORTS FROM INDIA AND ROUMANIA

Yesterday was a day of developments in
the Mcdonald field. One new we'll reached
the fifth sand and started of at nearly 1OC
barrels an hour, another is good for IS day
from the Gordon, and two wells were show
ing for busters in the fifth.
The estimated production of the field was
up $500 barrels. On Wednesday morning
the output was rated at % 900 barrels, but
yesterday it was placed at 24,5o0.
Forst & Greenlee secured the big well yes.
terday; in fact, they own both of the new
producers. Their No. on the McMurray
lease, between oakdale and Noblestown, hit
the pay in the fifth early yesterday morn
ing, and started off at 100 barrels an hour.
1t settled down gradually. and according TO
the last reports it was making so barrels
an hour.
The same parties No 5, on the Wade farm.
south of Mcdonald which was big gasser
in the 50-foot, reached the Gordon sand yes
terday and is good for NJ out IS Il day. Their
No G, on this farm which entered the Cor
don Wednesday, made 29l barrels in the en-
suing "A hours.
Their No. / on the McMurray lease was
shot Yesterday and its production was in
creased to so barrels an hour. Their No. ),
on the Marshall lease No. 2 is due in the fifth
by Monday, and will be closely followed by
Nos. . and on the same lease.
The same parties No. Barley is due next
week, also their Nos. and on the Marshall
and Chalfant lease.
The Two Rank Busters.
There were two wells showing for busters
in the fifth sand yesterday afternoon.
The Forest Oil Companys No. . on the
Sam Sturgeon farm, located about 400 feet
south of their No. on the Agnes Kemp, was
is feet in the fl TIL yesterday without show
ing of either oil or gas.
'laaG No nfn fhn
Stewart, and No. i, on the Nancy Scott, To-
Gated about mile and a halt north of Oak
Gale. should both he in the fifth sand this
afternoon or evening.
Fertig, keil & Co.'S No. ], on the malthouse
property, was seven bits in the fifth
sand yesterday afternoon without
Ierior quality and little hopes were enter
tanned of getting good producer.
1t is located about an eighth of q mile
west and south of the station at Oakdale,
and only $50 feet east of Brown, Walker
& Co.'S well on the Wilkinson lease,
which started off at so barrels an hour 1t
would seem to indicate that the pool ends
somewhere between it and the Wilkinson
well, and gives the town lot wells, now
drilling in Oakdale. n doubtful outlook.
J. NJ. Guffey, Stewart & Co. are down 400
feet in their No. on the McMichael farm
in the McCurdy field.
The Royal Gas Company drilled its No.
well on the Moore farm at Venice deeper
into the 50-foot sand yesterday without i'm
day.
S1srERsv11LE-LeComte & valliIee are
starting well on the Hubbard farm, and
Patty & Mcdonald are about ready to drill
on the Whitten.
The Mcdonald G ,uges.
The following estimates were submitted
by the gaugers of the Southwestern Penn
sylvania Pipe Line Company:
The production of the field was "A 500. or
8. 500 more than the day before. The hourly
gauges were as follows: Matthews No. 8,
90; Forest Oil Company's No. l Jane Stewart
IS: j. NJ. Guffey & Co.'S No. 2 McMichael, 25;
] .or & Co.'S No. Meise, 80; Morgan No. q
ople's Gas Company's No 12S McMur
25; Forst & Greenlees's No. 2 McMurray,
Production, "a, 500. Stock in field. 81, ,OOO
The runs of the Southwestern Pennsyl-
Nania Pipe Line Company from Mcdonald
"Wednesday were %, 371; outside of Mcdonald,
$3.50. The National Transit runs were 3S 09S:
shipments, 6.525. New York Transit ship
ments were 30.6SS Macksburg division OF
the Buckeye Pipe Line Company, 3, 723. Buck
eye runs, 42, l2l; shipments. 1859. Southern
lipo Line shipments, 1SsII Eureka runs,
5,432, shipments 1882.
Drilling in Foreign Countries.
W. B. Montgomery, who was foreman for
John j. Carter in the Bradford field, has
written to a friend from India, and claims
that the oil found in that country is superior
to either the American or Russian product
He went to India several years ago
TO drill oil wells and build refneries.
The native oil burns like alcohol, making
a clear, bright flame and does not clear or
Dlacken the wick.
He is located near BurInah, and the COM
pany for which he is working has three 600
barrel stills running. He drilled one well
from which the oil flows to Pangkalan Bran
dan, distance of ten miles, where the oil
and gus is separated tits making $50 barrels n
day and is only 500 feet deep. One well has
been fowing for six years and is only SO
1eet deep. Hugh johnson and Daniel Muir,
of Titusville, are with Mr.. Mont
gomery. The heavy work is done by
Nfalavs.
William H. McCrea, a welLknown driller
of PittsburG, has just returned from Rou-
mania, where he worked on two wells which
were put down by Philadelphia syndicate.
Oil Is Found on the Surface.
The wells were drilled north of Bucharest
in the vicinity of the Carpathian mountains
One was put down 1000 and the other i, 100
feet but no gas or oil was found in either
There is good deal of surface oil in the
region and this led to the belief that an oil
hearing rock would be found below Ma |
Jives secure Oil by sinking shafts from 100 to |
200 leet, but there seems to be no oil farther |
down. Near the city of Ployesti, about 100 |
miles east of Bucharest, a 100 barrel well was
struck recently, and there is much excite |
ment in consequence |
Hugh hcheever, 4. E. Culverson and John
W llliams, all well-known drillers, were with
Mr.. McCrea. He is glad to get back, as the |
natives around where he was drilling are |
only half civilized, and the country is rough |
and rugged. The ood was far from palata- |
bic and they were forced to live in the same |
seml-oarbarou9 way as the bloodthlrsty |
who dwelt in the region