Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-09
WHEELING REGISTER SUNDAY. DECEMBER 9. 1884,

little every new field Of oil for selfish
reasons and the Pittsburg papers resdi-
ly publish its reports. The McCook
we'll is good one and the other three
are pumping from twenty-five to seventy
barrels. The Plttsourg reports OF the
Steubehville field are not reliable
SteubenUille Star.
The above Is not only the case In re-
gard to the Steubenville field, but also
in regard to the oil fields In this State.
The Slstersville and Warrington fields
have always been misrepresented in this
manner by the Pittsburg papers and by
the OH City Derrick. which is the organ
OF the Standard OH Company. 1t is
impossible TO get any reliable informa-
tion from the employees OF this great
monopoly. or course the men who
work for the Standard are not to
blame. They are virtually slaves. In
support OF this assertion 1t may be
said that man in the EN-
OF that company is not allowed to spec
uate 10 oil in any way. Should an en-
ulove in any manner become possessed
of lease on some oil territory, she
company either compels him TO give 1t
up or discharges him. No man in the
employe of the company is allowed TO
give out information TO the public, but
must direct the person seeking knowl-
edge, to the superintendent or superior
official who will tell them just what
suits the interests of the company. 1t
does not suit the interests of the Stand
ard Oil Company to have the Steuben-
Gold ha IUaot VIRGINIA Hplhs
either, reported correctly and they bring
their influence to bear on the Pittsourg
papers which publish anything given
them.
One OF the big strikes during the
week was the we'll brought In by the
! South Penn Oil Co., on the Bayles form
in the Amos district. The we'll was
drilled q short distance into the sand
and is reported to be doing about GOO
barrels day.
The South Penn Oil Company has
ompleted its No. 10 McReynolds in
Doddridge county ard will have So
barrel pumper.
Knight No. 4, owned by the same
company, located in the same field, Is
drilling on top of the sand.
In the Sistersville field the Kanawha
OIL Company has complsted several
! wells during the week, among them be-
| ing their No. on the Mullendick farm,
| No. IL on the Clay farm and No. on
the Bowman. The wells on the Bow
man and Mullendick farms are both re
ported to be good for about 100 barrels
day while the one on the Clay farm is
doing about so barrels.
Eight miles east of New Martinsvilie,
| on Little Fishing creek, Wetzel county.
Carr Bros. have started TO drill Wild
| cat.
The South Penn Company's No. 2
Wilson in the Jacks Run district is In
the sand and flowing.
Nos. ?, 3, 4 and Pfeil, in the Sisters.
Vile field, on the Ohio side, are drilling,
ana some Of them are about due. These
wells all belong to Sutten and Koble.
They will probably be good ones. as No.
l OIL that farm is doing about 100 bar
| rels day.
In Wetzel county Robson No. 81, %
and % are producing 100, so and 80 bar
| rels respectively.
Last week the Victor Oil Company
succeeded in clearing their big gas we'll
out on Junction Creek. A report re-
ceived from Slstsrsville yesterday was
to the effect that the gas was finding
It's way out under the ground and was
coming up in large quantities through
! the water in the creek.
| f. A. Sutten e Ce. are drilling wild
cat on the Craig farm on the Ohio side
OF the Sstersvile field. The owners
have good hopes that it will be a pro-
Queer of some magnitude.
The Pittsburg papers continue to
| publish reports 10 the effect that Duffy
g. Queen are still drilling on the boiler
In Austin we'll in Marshall county, near
Darlington. There is nothing in that
story at ali; the we'll has been
plugged up for two weeks, aud no work
has been done in that time.
A special from Warrington last night
saws: "Gil operators from Pittsburg be-
gan this morning to make preparations
TO drill seventeen miles south OF this
city and are confident of success" This
is in Wood county and is probably
some one connected with the Standard
Oil Co., as they have been leasing in
that section all the past summer.
The test well at Willow Island Is re-
ported to be as dry as punk end will be
abandoned Another we'll may be put
down in that locality. The we'll was
drilled by Parker & Duke, who drilled
several in the Big Kate field.