Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-23
A WELL ON THE HEBRON.
The Forest Oil Company's No. 10 Making
16 Barrels an HOur-A Duster and Two
Light Fifth Sanders Reported-Gordon
Well ON the Wallace.

| Inc rOreSt Oll COmpany5 no. ~ Maklng
10 Barrels an Hour-A Duster and Two
Light Fifth Sanders Reported-Gordon
Well on this Wallace.
One new fifth sand oil we'll was reported
yesterday in the local oil fields 1t is the
Forest Oil Company's No. 10 on the W. G.
Heron farm, and last evening it was max.
| ing 16 barrels an hour from the fifth sand.
| 1t is located about u mile north of Mobiles
| town, and is in an old part OF the field.
Jennings, Guffey and Co.'s No. 10 on the
! Bell farm is a duster in the fifth sand. 1t is
also north of Noblestown.
The Devonian Oil Company's No. on the
K. Mcdonald farm has been drilled through
| the fifth sand, and is light we'll. They in
| tend to shoot it to-day. Their No. Cub
| huge is also a small we'll in the fl th sand.
The Forest Oil Company's No. L on the W.
E. Edmundson farm in the eastern Nc
Curdy district was drilling in the fifth sand
yesterday, but according to the last reports
from it, q pay streak had not been reached.
The same company's No. on the Coventry
farm in the Murdocksville field will make
about so barrels naturally.
Jennings, Guffey s. Co.'S No. IL Bell is
down l. 700 feet.
The W oodland Oil Company cased through
the salt sand yesterday at its No. 8 on the
The Devonian Oil Company's No. 10 Eli.
OFT and No. K. Mcdonald are each drilling
at ]. $50 feet.
The Peoples Gas Company has well on
the Wallace farm, south of Willow Grove,
which is good for l5O barrels day from the
Gordon sand.
McCurdy district, which came in big a few
days ago-are not holding up as was an
ticipated Mt first. Guffey & Robison's No. l
Ewing. which started or at nearly 100 bar
rels an hour, was reported yesterday after
noon to have made only IA feet in 19 hours,
or q fra ction better than - barrels an hour
1t has not been drilled any deeper since it
was brought in, as the cold weather solidi-
fes the oil in the pipes and has made it al
most impossible to run the oil.
The No. Marshall of the Tidal Oil Com
panv fell below 90 barrels an hour in its pro-
duction yesterday, and it was dropped trUm
the list in the gauges.
The Gauges Yesterday.
The estimated production of the Mcdonald
field yesterday was 1900 barrels, the
same as the day before. The Woodland Oil
Company's No. Scott was making IS barrels
an hour. The stock in the field was a, 900
barrels.
The runs from the Sistersville field were
15,450 barrels.
Runs and Shipments Wednesday.
The National Transit runs were 25, l99;
shipments, s,049. Runs of Southwest PENN.
sylvania from Mcdonald, Il, 767: outside of
Mcdonald, 7.lO7 total runs, 2l,sH. Buckeye
runs of Macksburg oil. 1862; shipments, none
buckeye TuIlS Vi 1lIud OIL. 4I,OO4. shipments,
1884. Eureka runs, 1909; shipments, 2,S39.
New York Transit shipments, 39,5H. south
ern Pipe Line shipments, S,65l.
The runs of the W. L. Mellon Pine Lines
were 7,S41; receipts from other lines, none;
total receipts, 164l; shipments, 6,422.
The runs of the Tidewater Pipe Line Com I
phny on Wednesday were 1906; total; 90, I39;
average, 4,3SS; shipments none; total, POI, ,449;
average, 1855 barrels.
The Oil Market.
Range of the January option: Opening,
52szc; highest, 5s5sc; lowest 52szc; closing,
52Ac.
Refined oil-New York, 5.45c; London, 40
45sd; Antwerp, 127Sf
New oRK, Dec. 22.-Petroleum opened dull
and continued so to the close. Penn
sylvania oil, spot sales, none. January
option, sales, 1000 bbls, at 52ssc. Lima oil,
sales 1000 barrels. at l9c; l9c bid. Total >.
Sales 5000 barrels.
OIL CITY, Dec. 22.-Opened. 525Sc lowest,
52ssc; highest, 525$sc; closed, 529sc Sales 5000
barrels; clearances, 46, 900 barrels; shipments,
81, ,06O barrels; Iuns, 9l,2H barrels.