Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-09-08

As if to be in keeping with the DoI
Skin district Of the sistersvine held
the Middle Island territory showed uu
yesterday with a gusher of no mean
proportions The We'll drilled in yes
terday was the Oxford OH Company'a
No. /, on the Thomas farm. out in tho
big Keener pool Of the Middle Island
district The well was drilled seven-
teen feet in the sand Yesterday after<
noon and started OIL al 30 barrels an
hour. 1t is located about three loca.
tions to the southwest OF the Victor
Oil Co.'S wells, on the Rockwell and
only short distance from the same
company's gushers on the Holmes
farm. 4 short time ago a well was
drilled on the Kellar farm about q mild
southeast OF the well drilled in yes4
terday, and It came In terrific gasser.
| spraying little OIL The Victor COM
! Guided they We're little too far out
on the edge and came back ON tbG
! was found yesterday. This we'll opens.
up considerable territory in that sec
| ton, as it shows thaJ the pool runs
IN a northwest and s0utheastern di-I
recuon If it has an extension. Quite
a number Of operators have territory
in that locality and q large number og
wells Will be started at once. The Vic
| tor Oil Company have been exceptions
ally fortunate i'm this territory. this
being the sixth or seventh well drilled
| by them, all, with tLs exception OF ona
on the Rockwell, being good produc-
ers.
The receipts of the pipe line compa-
MES IN the Sistersville field yester-
day were 1881 barrels The recelpta
OF th Eureka lines were 1869 barrels,
and those OF the Mellon lines 4.26S bar
rels. AT present The production seema
10 be. holding up nicely, occasioned. nd
doubt, by the big wells recently drilled
in on the Ohio side
l.. A. Ramey's well ON the Tuel farm,
which was drilled in last week. was
tubed yesterday and packed and Is re-
ported TO be making three barrels am
hour.
The Associated Producers No. 8, ont
the Deist farm. which was drilled I'm!
Friday, Increased , ,----= 4ea yesI
terday, and is now doing 20 barrels e..
hour
The following apoarod last night IN
a Sistersyile sheet, which purports ID
be an authority on oil matters: The
Associated Producers No. 3 Deist is
! due tomorrow evening or Monday"
! The we'll mentioned was drilled I'M
Thursday and is making 80 barrels an'
hour, as reported exclusively in tho
Register Friday morning. The above,
is certainly news.
The Philadelphia oil and Gas Co y
we'll on the Williamson farm out in
the Middle Island district. viii be dua
the latter part of nest week.
The South Penn's No. i'm the Flab
| Run district came in tle last of this
week and is reported 10 be a good
we'll
The South Penns Absal0m Holbert
No. /, i'm the same district came In
the last of this week it is reported
a big gusher IL is impossible now to
J to tell what it will do. but IL is thought
! to be as good as any in the field.
Both wells are near the first big ones
struck in the field. and they open up
! little new territory. Several other
wells in the same locality are nearly
due.
The Freoland well, in the Flat Run
district. which came iu this week, is
making 250 barrels 0IF
A new wclG the John r. Mason, on
/ Bingamon. has just been started. IL