Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-26

Oil operators are interested in the
new process Of shooting" oil wells with
acids instead of nitrO-glycerine. From
an extended account of the new method.
which is working successfully where it
is being tried it is learned that this
method is based on the fact that the oil
( bearing rock is lime formation, which
is readily dissolved or disintegrated by
acids Hydro-chloric acid is the one
preferably used, as ii changes 40 per
cent. by weight OF the rock and it dis
solves into carbonic acid gas and the
remaining 60 per cent. into chloride
| of calcium. The chloride Of calcium is
more soluble in water than common
salt, while the carbonic acid gas is
readily bound by the water when under
/ pressure.
The oil bearing rock is made up of
/ hard particles cemented together. This
/ cement is more readily acted upon by
the acid than the hard particles, there
fore when the acid is pressed into the
/ rock. it dissolves out that part which
/ binds the rock together; for this reason,
when ten or twelve tons of rocks are
/ dissolved and removed from well hun
dreds of tons of rock have been disin-
tregated and new channels formed,
causing the rock to give up its oil, which
cannot be done done in any other way
known.
This is an important discovery and
may in a measure reyolutonize the
/ business.
The Henry Oil Company, which has
a lease of 100 acres of land in jackson
township. Monroe county, Ohio, have
been pumping q salt water well on that
land for eighteen months. The well IS
now producing Il barrels of oil day
and increasing. The company have de-
cided to drill a well on this land at
once. 1t has already five rigs up and
has made seven more locations. They
think the farm is going to prove to be
q very rich one for oil deposits, and
will have it drilled full of holes at once.
They think the production, when the
wells are in, will go up past the thous-
and barrels a day mark.
A slight increase is reported IN the
production of some Of the New Castle
Ohio wells. That is much better sign
than the rapid decline OF many OF the
wells in other fields.
The casing was pulled in the Wells
farm well in Marshall, last week, and
moved the boiler down to the Austin
well 10 null thecasing there also. AS
soon as that is done they will move to
the Arrick well and serve it the same
wav. The 81 inch casing in the wells
we're parted and they only got about
One-third of it out.
Cd IN reach the sand the latter part
of this week. and much interest IS cen
tered in that direction.
Nothing definite is yet known about
the Coon Run well near Board Tree.
II is now plugged and as no tanks have
been prepared and it is not connected
with the pipe line, no gauge could be
taken. and estimates OF its production
are the merest guess work. No doubt
but that it is a Big well.
The Abersold we'll. in Marshall coun-
+v near Proctor, is still making some
oil. and may YET be a paying producer.
TIE owners Of the we'll are leasing all
rba land they can get n the vicinity on
verv good terms. which indicates that
they have some faith that there is oil
in paying quantities there.
Several strings Of tools are fast in
the Crawford we'll near Antioch, Ohio,
and nothing is being done with il now.
The only well reported in so far is
that of Caldwell& Boyer, on the Eick-
cherry farm. over on the Ohio side
witch was drilled in last night. This
is their No. 6 on the Blackberry farm.
II is only showing for a small we'll
II is understood it will be put to pump
ing az once. and it IS expected to make
at least a fair producer.
D. C. Garman No. came in yester-
dav a good well, making twenty-five
producing wells in that field and no dry
holes. Five new locations were made