Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-10
REVIEW OF The OIL FIELDS.
What Has Been Done in This and
Other States.
The Sensation Of the Week was the
Refusal of an Independent Com
pany to Reduce the Price OF on.
General News of the Fields.

in oil circles not only on Jue dCCouHC Vi
finding good wells in unexpected quar-
ters. but in the actions of the Producers
and Refners Pipe Line COmpany's fail
ure and refusal to reduce the price OF
oil when the Standard Company did.
Last week as our producers and royalty
owners here we'll know, the Standard
reduced the price of oil from S1.4O bar
rel to S1.3S, but the Producers and he
fners refused to mark It's prices down
and continued to pay $1.4O barrel for
oil. This is about the only independent
line now operating against the big
Standard, and while it only takes OIL
from Butler county and the Mcdonald
fields, It's refusal to reduce prices VIII
have some effect at least on the Stand
ard and the reasonable result Of it viii
be for the Standard 10 raise prices again.
A prominent official Of the Producers
and Refners Company when asked why
this action was taken on the part Oh MS
company replied by saying:
Simply because we can afford 10.
Refined oil is selling at price that JUS
t.fies US in paying $1.40. and we intend
to pay it 50 long as the conditions re-
main unchanged no matter how low Une
Standard puts its prices. We want OIL
and can get it by paying what 1t Is
worth. If we need more we VII try to
get it by the same method. Our REIN
cries are doing a good business and we
expect them to continue to do So"
It is not stated that this stand taken
by the Independent line is a result OF
the organization of the Pure Oil Com
pany. but it 5 surmised that such is the
case. The result will be that producers
who can, will run their oil into the in
dependent line and get the benefit OF the
better prices. Whether the Standard
VIII attempt to fight it remains to be
seen.
In our field the week has been a fair
" good one. The South Penn OIL Conn
pany's Miller well on Middle Island IS
o large one, a surprise TO its owners and
will stimulate drilling out that way.
It opens up but little new territory and
is important only in demonstrating the
fact that it is possible 10 hit big wells lD
that part Of the field.
The Hugus well is making at least 10
barrels Of oil a day. 1t is a flowing we'll
producing big quantities Of salt water
and some oil. IF it follows the record
Of all the other big salt wells in this
field Il viii yet prove to be valuable
well. It is N undeveloped territory and
while not large it will stimulate drilling
very much. 1t is owned by Clint Moore
and others. and is south of town from
five 10 six miles.
The only well near it is the Jennings
we'll on the Williamson farm, which
they have started to pump since the
Hugus well has come in. 1t looks very
much now as if Z pool had been found
out that way and the question to be
solved now, IS Where does the pool be-
Gin and end" The drill only can tell
the story. and operations ought to be
quite active out that way this winter.
Most Of the farms down that way
have been leased at big bonuses and
good rentals. Whether there is pool
down that way or not the farmers are not
losing anything on the Williamson and
Hugus wells.
Another good strike has been the Con-
molly Bros we'll on the Gorrel farm,
ahead of development a considerable dis
lance in the Middle Island field, and m
portan. in that oil was found the Big
Iniun and not in the Keener sand as was
expected. We do not know exactly
wha, the well will make, but it is Well
and a good one and is possibly the op-
ening of pool out in Ellsworth district.
The Connolly Bros. have spent a good
big pile of money drilling out around
Niddlebourne. and every one will be
glad to know that they have at last
struck it and hope it will be big ricn
pool.
Drilling is quite active all over the
field. and especially will this continue
where the above wells have come in.
Down southwest of town the well OF
Ramev e Co., on the Hutchinson heirs
farm. will possibly make an opening
for an extension Of the field in that d.
rection.
The outlook IS certainly very flatter-
inc and the oil field of Tyler county
NAV vet only be in its infancy. what
ever the result may finally be in the IN
terror of this county, the FARMERS are
getting piles of money in the way OF
rentals and bonuses, and the county is
being developed and tested for oil.
The farmers now, or at least great
many of them, buy their groceries ana
other goods to be paid for when their
monthly rentals become due. Many OF
them are working but very little and
all depending on their rentals to Keep
them If this continues for many years
longer we will have tolerably lazy SCI
Of farmers. But they are enjoying II
now and we are sure no one OBJECTS 10
them having a good time out OF the
business as it is possible to be had
We only hope it will finally result IN
finding lots of oil.
The Fisher Oil Company, OF Pitts
brrf is having the timber and ma
cbinerv hauled on the e. ID. johnson
farm. across the river, in sufficient
Quantities to complete and drill seven
teen additional wells on that farm
There are now seven producing wells
ON If and the company intends TO drill.
as many wells as will drain he land
comnletelv. Mr.. Johnson's host OF
friends will join with us in hearty con-
aratulations over his splendid pros
pects for getting a big lot Of oil.
Ont in Washington county. the Nav
Kinney well. near Canonsburg, still con-
Times to enrich its owners. BY agi-
Eating it frequently its production ha;
been kept up to an average of 60 to 4
barrels an hour. but no one thinks il
will hold out long. Work in the i'm
mediate vicinity is not as active as
might be expected. since the well is IL
- r,iact of m exhausted field.