Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-23
FEAR OF FAMINE.
r9Spects of the Pinhook Field
: Brighten With Every Well.
ITTSBURG ENTERING A NEW ERA.
Epers Claim There Will Be Gas for q
Quarter of a Century.
BE EQUITABLE STARTS TO LAY MAINS

Each day only proves the immense ex
Mt of the new Pinhook gas field and she'd
eater glory on Pittsburg's future. The
cid is even bigger than has before beer
ated. 1t is now stated cross anticlinal
0tends across the Indiana, Saltsbnrg,
-urraysville, Pinhook and Brady's Bend
lticlinals, which will give new gas field
ON East to West as we'll Is the ones
orth and South Cross ant1clinals have,
owever, never amounted to much and the
reatest richness is expected in the third
ind.
Two experts who have tested the wells in
le new field put the thickness OF the fifth
and at so feet. This means staying wells,
nd instead of ten years more of natural
as 1t may insure supply for quarter of
century if economic measures are used in
S consumption. The great feature of the
ew field is that gas in paving quantities
found in both the fourth and fifth sands,
nd it is claimed the latter sand will be
icher than the Murraysville. The Muir
aysville, though a deep sand, was not
roductive in its whole depth, while the
fth sand on the Pinhook axis is good for
as in every inch OF it.
Believes in a Cross AnticlinaI
Another expert, o. d. Lewis, puts up a
heory that as enormous wells have been
ound in the Murraysville sand on the
5rady's Bend anticlinal, that this stratum
sill be found on the Pinhook anticlinal
bove Parnassus and that wells equal to the
Id Murraysyille roarers will be found in
hat sand before even the richness of the
ourth and fifth sands is touched.
The wells gas producers were waiting on
test the territory at Milltown are in and
hey are big ones. In fact, wherever the
fifth sand has been tapped enormous wells
laye been found. The Equitable COM
Danv's Kidd we'll, which came in Wednes-
lay, is still an enormous ore. Yesterday
he Equitable put the Skinner well down to
where il gave evidence of being such roarer
hat they would not bring it in until they
cot main :here to carry off the gas. They
ave started TO build a main there and the
PnIladelphia Company is laying a 16-inch
md a 20-iHch main to the new field. The
Equitable tried to close of the Kidd well
yesterday, but it was too strong. Presi-
lent Pew, of the Peoples Company, has
wung around from his first position, and
N account of the rich find in the new Pin
'ook field he declares there will be an
bundant supply of gas in Pittsburg this |
'Inter. The Woodside well of j. n. Pat
erson, 134 miles southeast of the Plum |
reeA wells, is expected in to-day.
Roarers Expected at Tarentum,
1t has been stated frequently that part |
+ this new district has been drilled over
nd only dry holes found. Special stress /
as been laid on the dry holes about Taren- |
um. A well-known gas expert who was in
position to know more than anyone else |
bout the Pinhook field and especially these |.
arentum wells, explains the whole mvs-
Nv In private letter he signs his name,
IL, asks that it be withheld for obvious
easons. His letter is as follows:
In Your article of Wednesdays issue on
!, ,e 49,, IiLmook nelo there IS an extract from
n anonymous letter" concerning the drill.
II oi several fruitless wells on the Pin
ooN ANS south of Iarentum, by the Pitts
arg Pate Glass Company" Now, the fact
= the said company never drilled a single
ell on that anticlinal south of Tarentum
hey did drill three wells, however, on |
lat uplift six miles northeast of Tar.
isEiminetas. These wells were oniv
Illed through the Venango first
tud-or Murraysville gas sand-the 0o-fooG
Butler county-and abandoned; hence
'e bottom OF said wells is several hundred
ct above the horizon of the fifth sand. In
her words. the great gas producing sand
that antlclinal was not reached in any of |
0ese wells. The Philadelphia Company is
)w drilling one of these wells-the Arm
rOng-tO the fifth sand, having secured
j0O acres in that vicinity. Ten miles to
le northeast, at Walkers Mills, on Crooked
eek, the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company has
.yeral large wells on this same anticlinal
I'd in the same sand as the Hess and Deible |
ellis to the southwest Between the field |
D the Pinhook axis, to the southwest, that
n q r.aa ttans /
le equally as great, il not greater, field to
e northeast, on Crooked creek. and on the
me anticlinaL there have been no wells
'illed to the horizon of the fifth sand 1
z strata extend the whole distance from |
e Plum and Sandy creek wells to the |
cooked creek field? No man knows that it
res not.
W e have reason to expect great results in !
G development of the territory between |
ese fields and along the oval and slopes of
{ Pinhook folding. Mac.
Gas for Quarter of a Century.
Q. d. Lewis, the well-known patent
torney of Pittsburg, is also of the belief ,
at Pittsburg is just entering her greatest
s era. Mr.. Lewis is the man who de-
Hoped the famous fields on the Bradv's
end anticlinal notch of the Wildwood oil
strict, and put the Bridgewater Gas Com
ny on its feet when it was almost on the
&C VA an alhdbiOu 1eSltTuaF ne SAID. | d.
81 do not believe the full truth of the
nhook gas field has been told. 1 believe
e estimate that it will furnish !
S for ten years to Pittsburg
too small. There is gas enough :
thin reach of Pittsburg to last for 25 8
ars. The wells the doubling ones have !
ited on are in. They prove all that has ,
en- claimed for the field. The fifth sand
3 ricn one, and there is no reason why the
8 will no5 be found even in greater GUAM
les between the Plum creek and the
ooked creek wells. There is certainly a
eat field there that is 20 miles in length. q
In the Murraysville sand on the Brady's '
nd axis 1 got wells that had 325 pound :
mute pressure. There the coal is 500 !
I below the surface while at Parnassus 1t
only 20 tee5 below the ground. The fact a
II big well4 are found Just across the a
er in the BradY's Bend axis IN the Muir ]
7sville sand, together with the general r
Istrnciion of the strata. leads me TO the 7
let that just above Parnassus, and ex- S
ldlng ct a considerable distance, big y
lis all be found in that sand before the s.
lrth ald tifth sands are tapped. If there v
a cross anticlinal, and there is every +
son to bel;eye there is, Pittsburg can y
pend on gas for % years. We must have
and the increase it will give Pittsburg
only be measured by what it has done
her in the past"
Great Width of the Pinhook Field. o
other experts, however, disagree on this Il
mt, and say that cross anticlinaIs' have b
7er proven productive, but are rather d.
at are called ''bog backs'' The great W
ture of the Pinhook field is its width. a.
per!ence has shown that the Pinhook te
iclinal draws its greatest strength from
west, yet productive wells are being
lck away on the east, which means a
V wide sweep of good territory. :,
Another gas eIpert and geologist saws