Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-27
A CHANGE FOR Luck.
Several Wells Drilled in the Sisters
vile Field Sunday and Yesterday
Which Will Make Good Producers.
Some Big Leases in Ohio-The
Big Moses Gasser Shut in Again.
General Oil News.


Big Moses Gasser Shut in Again.
General Oil News.
That beautiful sky blue feeling caus-
/ ed by the array of busters Of two weeks
ago still hoyers about Sistersville and
even the fact that one or two good
wells have been drilled in has not
changed the aspect of affairs any. The
school house well, about which there
has been such a furore for the
past two weeks, after all will
not amount to great deal.
There was a big flow of water in the
/ Keener sand which will be cased off.
fhe well is about one screw in the Big
Injun and makes a flow about every
five or six hours a very conservative
estimate does not place the we'll at good
for more than 100 barrels.
That Keener pool out on Middle ISL
and in the vicinity of the Rockwell and
Holmes gusher showed up yesterday
with another big well. The Victor Oil
/ Company drilled in their No. l on the
/ Curns farm. and it is flowing very nice
/ ly through the 81 casing. 1t will make
big well. All the wells drilled in this
section with the exception of one or
] two have been god producers. There
3 are quite a number Of locations made in
! that section and several wells drilling
which will be in shortly and they are
being watched very closely. Nichols Il
Co. located wells in that section last
week. and are now putting up the rigs.
Ballard x Co. got a good well on the
Smith farm on Broad Run, in Pleas
ants county, Sunday. II is estimated
at about sixty barrels a day
Lew MallOry'S we'll on the DelOng
farm in the same territory was drilled
i'm Saturday and is a buster in the Cow
Run sand 1t will be drilled TO the Big
Injun.
W II. Reece has the rig up and will
commence drilling on holland farm
in the Broad Run district i'm few days.
The Wiley & Slender well on the Roth
/ lesberger farm on Long Run, back of
New Martinsyille; in Wetzel county, is
drilling az eco feet
The receipts of the Pipe Line Com
panieS in the Sistersville field were 10,
1872 barrels. The receipts of the Mel
Ion lines We're 1920 barrels. and those
Of the Eureka Hop barrels.
a dispatclp from Findlay, o., last
night says: Owing to the two reduc-
tions made in the price Of Ohio oil last
week. the leading producers of this
field have ordered the suspension of all
drilling operations as soon as wells now
in progress are completed 1t is claim
ed the present price of oil does not af-
ford profit for continued operations.
A syndicate of Parker sbUrgerS have
leased all the available territory in the
vicinity of Byers near ChillicOthe. o..
for oil purposes. suj over 1000 acres
have so far been secured In 1889 three
wells were sunk az that point for the
purpose of procuring oil. The work
was under the supervision of Messrs.
John c. Entrekiu. Charles Lindley and
r. G.. Lewis. and after going TO depth
of $40 feet oil vas struck. but did not
flow i'm the way anticipated. and the in
terested parties became discouraged
and abandoned the enterprise as an un-
profitable venture, without first giving
In q thorough test. The wells were
abandoned. but it is alleged fine thick
oil has been coming TO the surface ever
since and in such quantities that the
owners of traction engines have been
carrying it away fer fuel
Ii is stated that Merrs. Entrekin,
4 Lindley and Lewis failed to shoot the
wells. as is usual. and for that reason.
il is said the oil did not show up as
well as it should have done.
A few weeks ago several oil men ar
rived al Byers on the quiet and made
thorough investigation, going over the
ground and testing the oil. As result
they think they have struck a bonanza
and will prosecute the work of develop
ing the wells. All will be shot and be-
sides each we'll will be drilled great
deal deeper. The Parkersburg people
have no doubt they can get oil in large
having quantities. and will not spare
labor or expense in accomplishing that
end. There are also strong indications
that natural gas will be struck at Rich
I land Furnace. only three miles east OF
Bvers. Natural gas was struck in 1861
after drilling for oil TO depth OF 1850
feet and has been going to waste ever
since.
The we'll of the Snyder Company on
the J. p. Sharp farm, at Waverly, which
vas drilled in Friday has proven to be
4 great producer. and flows at intervals
of one hour The owners of the well
are Kelly & Kennedy, who drilled the
famous Big Kate well in the Willrfns-
town field on the Reed farm and they
/ are sanguine that the field at that point
will be a good one. The we'll is in the
/ Cow Run sand. and the sand is said TO
be thicker than at any other point in
the field
After a number of Intellectual at
: tempts the Victor OIL Co.. has finally
succeeded in shutting in their Big Moses
gas we'll out on Middle Island. The
. Big Moses was drilled in almost year
ago and since that time millions OF feet
of Gas have gone TO waste. The COM
many made quite a number OF attempts
~ shut the well in and has spent up
wards of $4,000 in trying TO save the
gas from this well. AT one time they
sent 10 Pittsburg and had heavy cast
inc made said to have weighed in the
neighborhood of ten tons, and put 1t
over the hole. This was not enough 10
cc7fue the gas and in a very short time
The sand coming out of the we'll with
the gas had cut a hole through the
casting and the we'll was again free
.Iov The we'll was shut in this time has
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