Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-21
OIL NEWS.

OIL NEWS.
The gloom in the Dye-Brooks sec
ton of the Sistersville field was par
tally dispeled Yesterday when the re-
port was received TO the effect that the
South Penn's No. 1 Bell Willis had
been drilled into the sand and was
making a showing for a good well.
The repart received said the well was
flowing spasmodically until shut IN
and that there was no doubt that II
would make good producer. The well
is one location north of the j. J..
Jones COmpany's Dye-Brooks No. ],
the big gusher drilled in there, and II
shows that if there is a pool in that
section il is very narrow and apparent'
~ runs direct north and south. The
well was shut in yesterday until 1t
could be cased, and it will probably be
drilled in to-day.
The Kanawha Oil Company's No. !,
on the +. and II. Williamson farm,
drilled in some weeks ago, is pumping,
and since the head was pumped off II
is making about 100 barrels OF water
a day without a show Of oil. 1t Will
be pumped with the expectation Of eX-
hausting the water and getting some
oil.
The receipts of the pipe line compa-
nies in the Sistersville field yesterday
were 1876 barrels. The receipts Of
the Eureka lines were 1884 barrels,
and those of the Mellon lines 5,621.
The Portland (O) Oil and Gas Com
pany have 1875 acres OF land under
lease in that section of Ohio, and VIII
put down several test wells in a short
time.
The report published yesterday
morning to the effect that the well on
the School House lot, over on Dog
Skin, was in and a duster, was incor-
rect. The well is only about 1000 feet
deep. and will not be in for ten days
The well was drilled into the salt sand
Monday night, and that it what prob
ably gave rise to the rumOr sent in by
the correspondent.
The VOgler we'll on the Ohio side OF
the Sistersville field, over on Dog Skin,
had not reached the sand last evening
at o'clock, but it was expected in at
any time. This we'll has been due in
the sand for several days, and would
probably have been in by this time
had the sand been found at the same
depth as it was in the Frieden we'll
Last evening the drill was about forty
feet below where the pay sand was
found in the other wells, but there was
no sign of the sand. This is explained
by the oil men that there is probably
a break in the anti-clinal arch at that
point. and that the sand will likely be
found at q greater depth.
George A. O'Hara yesterday left the
following Ohio county oil leases for rec
ord at Clerk Hooks Office: Daniel T..
Atkinson. $50 acres; George Morrison,
129 acres; w. u. Davis, 100 acres; II. 5.
and William +. Porter, and others, IA
acres; w. II. and J. p. Whitman, 31S
acres. All the land is in Liberty dis
trict
A Jaw suitison between several parties
from Parkersburg and the owners Of
some leases they hold at Vancluse.
A good pumper was made out Of the
old Sullwel well. in Woode county
which was cleaned out a few day ago.
A well owned by the Standard oil
Company on the Knoke farm on the
Wayerly field came in a light gasser
Sunday.
The several big strikes in the Will
hanson oil fed of late has caused in
creased activity in that field and wells
are being located almost daily Opera
tors look for extensive operations there
The drill is on top Of the Big Ingun
sand in the well on the ]. T. McMechen
farm at Washington p. o.. Wood county,
and il is believed by local oil men that
the well has a good showing for oil, as
the owners are leasing all the territory
in that vicinity they can get. The well
was closed down several DAYS ago and
will be cased before it is drilled I'm. The
outcome is looked forward TO with great
interest by the oil men, as the well viii
open mp an entirely new field.
Stick & Beatty's well at Davisville
came in yesterday duster in the Big
Injun sand. and the owners are badly
disappointed. as they expected a good
well. Eight years ago however. Carr
Brothers went there from the McDon-
aid field and put down three deep wells
on leases they owned in the vicinity of
Davisville. Two of these wells we're
drilled 2,250 feet and the last 2. 800 feet
and all three were dry Messrs. Carr
became disguised and returned to the
Pennsylvania field. One of them said
at the time that the average cost of
these three wells was $4,000 each.
The No well on the Richards farm
in the Williamstown field. owned by
the Glover Oil Co.. which was drilled
in several days ago. and which at the
time was said to be good for - barrels
q day. is now pumping $50 barrels and
flows at intervals Of about two hours.
putting three inches in the tank AZ each
flow. IL is the largest we'll ia the field
since the famous Big Kate.
FIRST ARRIVAL OF COTTON.
Memphis, Tenn, August 2O-The
first bale Of new cotton 10 arrive in
this market came in this morning from
West Point Miss. II was grown in
Clay county, Miss. by !. z. CarOthers.
who shipped the first bale last year on
August II. The present bale weighs
57Oi2 pounds. classes strict middline
and Will be sold at auction. It's ar,
rival to-day was something Of a sur,
prise. as the crop generally is about
two weeks late.