Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-21
A FOURTH SAND POOL.
Lockhart Iron Company's Mccoy
Well Doing 13 Barrels an Hour
1T is NORTHEAST OF M'CURDY.
Wells Drilling in the Sand Yesterday We're
Showing Light.
7. W. PHILLIPS BIG BUTLER GUSHEl

No big wells were finished up. and tht
| production of the Mcdonald field fell from
q, 900 to 20, 500 barrels
The last crop of wells in the Meise Cor
don sand district south of Willow Grov.
has been disappointing. The Belmont Oil
Company's No. Morgan, Guffey. Galley 8
Company's No. Kirk, the Forest Oil Com
pany's No. Campbell, and the Forest Oil
| Company's No. McEwen were all light
and Yesterday the Eureka Oil Company
No 2 on the Kelso farm was reported to be
| from Is to 18 feet in the Gordon sand and nc
good.
The Forest Oil Company's No. 3, On the
Mrs. Campbell farm, in the same region,
was reported to be in the Gordon yesterday
morning, and filling up.
| Their No. Wallace is shut down on ac-
count of a defective boiler, and No. 8, on
the Campbell property, was on top OF the
Gordon last night.
j. NJ Gufey & Co.'S No. 2, on the Shane
farm, will be due the last of this week or
the first of next.
Greenlee & Forst do not expect to drill in
their No. 6 on the Marshall farm, located
| south of Noblestown, before Saturday.
Their No. l on the Noble farm southwest
of the File and Walker is shut down on
account of some broken machinery, but may
be drilled in this afternoon. The parties
No. on the Wade farm is due to get in the
Gordon sand this evening.
May Extend the Fife Pool
Slagle, LEM & Fried's No 2, on the
Noble farm, was on top of the fifth sand
| yesterday and may get in to-day.
S. S. Watson & Co. are starting well on
the Gibson five acres in Oakdale.
The Wheeling Gas Company's No 1, on
the Patterson farm, near Venice, five miles
south of Mcdonald, is in the 5O-foot and a
good gasser. Their Monreau well is also q
gasser from the 5O-foot.
The Wheeling has started couple of wells
on the Robbins farm, q mile and a half
southwest of Mcdonald. No. 2 Robbins is
located in the northeast corner of the farm,
and offsets Greenlee & Forst's No. 3, on
the GLADDEN. farm, but is $40 feet from the
line, making distance between the wells of
$50 feet
No. Robbins is located in the northwest
corner of the farm, and 500 feet northeast
from the Woodland OIL Company's No. 2,
on the Crawford farm, which started off q
few weeks ago at so barrels an hour
1t is about 400 feet northwest from the
To-day location will be made for No. on
the w. +. Woods by the Wheeling Gas
Company.
Patterson & Jones' No. 1 on the McGarr
farm, mile west of the old McCurdy
farm, was reported to be in the sand yester-
day afternoon and showing for a small we'll
New Fourth Sand Field Found.
Late last evening information was re-
ceived in Pittsburg that the we'll belonging
to the Lockhart Iron Company, H. S.
Stewart and S. D. Robson, located on the
Mccoy farm in the northeast part of the
McCurdy field, had been drilled into the
fourth sand and was making 13 barrels an
hour.
This we'll was drilled to the top of the
fourth a couple Of weeks ago and has been
making from 60 to IS barrels day since.
The oil is beautiful amber color and re-
sembles the Clarendon product more than
any which has been found in the Southwest
farm well last fall the present strike may
develop a new pool in the northeast Nc
Curdy extension and start a lot of drilling
in that locality.
The Philadelphia Gas Company has some
wells on top of the fourth sand in which
they expect to get oil in this region. Their
No. 1 on the Peet farm may get the sand
Saturday. In the same part of the field
their No. on the Leach and No. 1 on the
Cole farms, are due in the fourth early next
week
HussIer, Davis & Bolts No 4 on the
Boyce farm, in the lower part of McCurdy,
is down :, 300 feet
wildcatting in snowden Township.
The O'Brien Oil Company is drilling a
couple of test wells near Library, in Snow
den township. by which they expect to open
up new oil field. Library is IL or Is
,;1oe ouf on he Po1fimoro and nb;o Do;1
road. Thomas O'Brien, the head of the
company, is the man who drilled the first
we'll, 600-barreler, in the CHARTERS field
and opened up that pool
The O'Brien Oil Company has 1000 acres
leased up in the vicinity of Library and
Snyder Hare & Co. are doing their con-
tracing. No. on the Stewart farm is
down ], 800 feet They expect to get gas
in this we'll in either the Gantz or Elizabeth
sand. Only half mile away they drilled
gasser on the Nolan farm some time ago,
and sold it to the Jefferson Gas Company
Two miles from this well they have one
drilling on the Laramer, which is down 700
feet. 1t is two miles northeast of well on
the Wright farm, in which considerable oil
was found, but the we'll has never been
properly taken care of, and its capacity is
unknown. There are couple of tanks of
oil now at the we'll.
A meeting of the directors of the Cone
maugh Gas Company was held at the Sew
enth Avenue Hotel yesterday to act on
some minor business of private nature.
R. B. Stone, of Bradford, is the president
of the company, which gets its supply in
the Murraysville district and furnishes
light and heat to Blairsville, Salisbury, Sa-
lima and intervening towns along the West
Penn road.
Piftsburger Piping Zanesville.
A. J. Mercer, of Pittsburg, and s. Benet,
of Titusville, have just secured the privi-
lege from the Councils of GAINESVILLE, O., to
pipe that town and furnish its citizens with
gas They have 10000 acres of gas terri
tory leased in the Fairfield district, located
between GAINESVILLE and Columbus. on which
they have drilled a number of wells, which
show pressure of 700 pounds to the inch.
They are now organizing a company to be
capitalized at 81, 900, 600 to pipe the gas
from Fairfield to GAINESVILLE, distance of
35 miles
Mr. Mercer is well-known oil operator.
having operated for several years in the
Ohio fields and year ago came to Nc
Donald, and Is also interested in the Sisters
vile field.
Work in Butler County.
BUTLER-Crawford & Co.'S No. 1 on the
Wilson farm, east Of Valencia, is in the gas
sand, but will not get the hundred-foot be-
fore Monday. TIE same company have a
gas well three-quarters of mile west of
this with pressure of $50 pounds They
think they have chance of getting either |
q hundred foot or third sander.
Jefferson Center-Phillip's NJ. on the
W off farm made 20 barrels per hour this
afternoon after being drilled some.
Hendersonville Steelsmith & Co.