Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-03
OIL NEWS.

The Mahan well, on Sugar creek, is in
in the Cow Run sand, but does not flow
as did the well drilled by the side of it,
The well is nearly full of oil and will be
pumped, but no estimate can be formed
row Of her production.
The Barnsdall & Mallory No 1, on
the Smith farm on Broad run, is in ana
is a gusher It has filled all the tankage
that is at the well and is flowing out
over the ground while they are getting
up a new 500 barrel tank This we'll =
but a short distance from the Ballard
well, on the Cove, which is doing ten
or twelve barrels. 1t looks like this
might be paying shallow field.
The SisteTsville Oil Company will
drill another we'll on their lease near
New Castle. They have Just drilled in
a nice little we'll on this lease
The Colerain oil well was not shot
yesterday as was the intention for the
reason that the nitro-glycerine, which
is on its way from Pittsburg, did not
arrive. AS soon as it arrives, which
viii probably be to-day, the we'll will
be agitated, and it is to be hoped it
will respond freely. Outside Of this
there is very little to be said about the
New field as it is called. The fact
that the Standard has its men there
taking up leases is no indication that
the field will amount to anything
There is a small showing of oil and the
greasy octopus is making an effort to
get in on the ground floor and be theirs
should anything come out Of the Held.
The natives, of course, are very much
excited over what is reported to be
a find, but there never was well
drilled yet that the farmers did not get
excited. whether it amounted to any
thing or not. And it is invariably the
rule with an inexperienced person that
when little oil is seen to magnify the
amount many times. AS has been
chrOnicled in these columns, there was
a slight show of oil at the we'll on the
Starbuck farm, but it does not amount
to anything, and the general opinion
among oil men Of experience is that it
would not make, in its present cOndi-
ton. more than one barrel day, If
pumped.
Notwithstanding the report pub
lished in an evening sheet yesterday
that "the well had only been drilled
into the Berea about two feet" the
drill was sent entirely through the
sand and nothing better was gotten and
for this reason the we'll will be shot
in the hope that the formation will be
loosened up, and, if there is oil in that
vicinity, the we'll will make a better
showing. The report published in the
evening sheet last night that the drill
ers were running the tools and that a
check had been put in the cable for
the purpose of inveigling the people
into believing they were still drilling,
IS prepOsterOus.
Outside of the fact that the tools
were run down the hole once or twice
to find out whether the we'll had caved
or not, nothing has been done this week,
and there is no probability that any
thing will be done until after the shot
has been put in the well.
The general opinion among men Of
experience in the oil business is that
Colerain well is on the extreme edge
Of a pool of oil, and that a well put
down in the right direction would make
a good producer The trouble seems
to be to know where to locate a well
in order to strike the pool. If there
is any oil in that vicinity it is very
likely it will be known a short time
as some of the farmers leasing
have stipulated that wells shall be
drilled at once, and it should not be
more than six weeks, at the farthest,
before the tale will be told.
The Wheeling Millmen's Association
will meet at hall. corner Twenty-fourth
and Market street, Saturday evening,
July s, at 1870 p. m. Every milk man
is requested to be present.