The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-12-06
N TIE OIL FIELDS,
News Late Doing, In Various Portions
orthe Great Southwest.


The pipe lire prices OF credit balance
oil declined yesterday from wednes'
days quotations OF 81 40 to 81 aS,
The Eureka pipe line company's runs
IN the Sistcrsvllle field yesterday were
$500 barrels.
The market seems heavy, but local
oil men do not believe that further de-
clineS in credit balance prices are con-
tefnplRted or expected. The prices OF
producers oils IN the custody OF pipe
line investors or spectators certih-
Gates and OF refined products TO con-
sumers are controlled and made by the
Standard. Producers and Independent
oil men are making an effort to sustain
competition against the monopoly and
establish independent markets. The
organization OF the Pure OIL Company
Is in that direction.
Roesser q I.alngs well on the Hol-
dren farm, at Sheets Run, Is not the
producer II was first supposed TO be. II
has but very little gas, not more than
enough TO supply three boilers, while
the oil Is not showing up as previously.
The Fisher oil Cumpany's Tull No. :
Is down 500 feet.
Connolly Bros. Gorrell No. Is due In
the pay sand hut nothing had been
heard from II up to last evening.
On Middle Island the Martin well OF
the oxford oil Company and NJ. keat-
ing Is n considerable distance In the
Big Intun formation and Is failure.
The casing is being pulled and the hole
abandoned.
The Kanawha on Company's old we'll
on the Raper lease. now controlled by
the Fisher oil Company, Is being clean
ed out and is down 500 feet. II viii be
the latter cOmpanys Raper No. I.
The Fisher on Company's Eaton No.
10 which dropped 200 feet OF casing and
shut OF a cave is drilling again, after
lengthy delay.
Hutchinson No, located below Sheets
Run, which has been drilled In several
weeks, but never before reported, Is
making nice pumping well,
Back OF the Fisher oil Compnny's de-
fined territory In the vicinity OF COch-
ransville. Ramcy & Company yester-
day struck the sand In what IL prac-
ticaIly a wild cat well on the Hutch
inson farm and made u good showing
for a producer. The wells production
Is being made q mystery. If the well
has come In good q large scope Of UNI
defined territory will be opened up.
The Carter Oil Company has drilled
in a well on the PILE farm adjoining
Rnmey's tract and VIII have II pro-
ducer good for from twenty-five to fifty
barrels per day.
Connolly Bros. Gorrcll No. Ia due In
the pay to-day.
Judge No. /. OF the Fisher oil Com
pany, which has been detained by n
crooked hole. is drilling again and will
hn ahnrtiv Iun In thn sand
The Henry oil Compnny's Luther
Hissom well above the school lands In
Monroe county. Is In the sand, but moth
Ing Gun belcarned as TO itschaructcr.ltS
location is rather important.
In the Wavcrly field. Barney Forst la
starting two new wells one on the Rut.
land and one on the KeEtcr place. about
q quarter OF mile distant from the big
Hammett srOutcr
The South Penn. oil Company Is
starting n new well on the McTaggart
farm and Roe Hammett & Company on
the Ed Ilnmmrtt lease.
The Little Venture Company. owners
of the Big Jim, has made u location nj
the mouth Of Brood Run. near ST.
Mary's, and will start the RIG inmcdi-
ately.
Russell & Skinner will further de-
velop their territory near Burning
SPRING.. by drilling several new wells
In CRbeii county the Sistcrsvllle peo'
pie will speculate for the grcnsy COM
modify, the Jenkins farm Oh Green
Bottom to be the place Of operation
Noar the center Of the j. W. EnHben.
Eer farm In Wctzcl county, is located
the weH recently drilled by the South
Penn oil Company. AZ the time tho
well came In, II caused great Interest
among oil men on account Of It's splcn.
d.d Showing a scramble for territory
was the result, but II was short-llycd
for the land owners are pronounced by
lcnsera az being the most difficult per
ROnagpB over they attempted "a np'
pronch II cost small fortune to talk
10 them while the agreements made re-
c0lYcd no consideration whatever Time
and time hgnin land owners hrvc failed
In this respect ana now len8rrE nre he.
coming diaGustrd ana leaving the terri.
tory. The EnHh"ngnr wrll II dccrcaE'
ing ~ production rapidly. ItA exact
location n on Bucks Run, near Robin
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