Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-24

WOOdSheld. o., August 23.-The
briggs well in the school house lot in
the Dog Skin district, is in and good
for 600 barrels. The Lentz also. re-
ported a buster, is making a good show
ing for oil to-day.
r. e. JONES.
A correspondent at St Mary's sends
in the following oil news from that
place Ii is reported that a we'll has
been drilled in On the Wilson farm near
PennsbOrO which is good for twenty to
thirty barrels in the Big lnjUn.'
The oxford Oil Co. has completed the
rig for a we'll on the c. p. Barker FARM
on Middle Island creek, back from RAJ
ven Rock
Dr. Gale received q car load of casing
for his c.. w. Bills well this week and
ne is getting things in shape to begin
drilling.
r. c. Caldwell has cased his we'll on
the Little farm and is now drilling for
the Big Injun.'
The rig is up for the Home Com
pany's we'll on the Jacob Delong farm
on Middle Island.
Ballard No. . on Job Smith is down
five hundred feet and ought to be in
the sand Saturday. They had a fishing
job. which delayed them some.
Stewart shot his we'll on the Dye
farm above Raven Rock and it is show
ing for q 20 barrel producer
IL is reported that the shallow well
which was drilled some time ago on
the Billy Hammett farm back of Bel
mont has been cleaned out and is MAX
ing 10 barrels per day.
The Barnsdall people are getting the
stuff on the ground to operate the Thos
MARBLE well on French creek, drilled
several years ago.
Barnsdall and MallOrys No. on
Brown has settled down and flows
steadily. putting forty barrels per day
into the tank.
Reese and Graham will shoot their
school house we'll and think il will be
a good producer.
The Lew Mallory we'll on Steve De-
long, is down near the sand and should
be i'm the last OF this week. They also
had a little fishing job, which has kept
them back
$. II. Mallory is drilling "a we'll on the
Stone lot at Nancluse, and the rig is
also up for a well on the ROdick lot.
The Eli Oil Company was organized
i'm this city last night. The organizers
Of the company hold large blocks of
leases i'm Jefferson and Belmont coun-
ties. Ohio. and also in the Truder dis
trict of the Sistersville field, which
they viii develop at once.
Yesterday the L. c.. Wilson Co. drill
ed in their we'll on the Williamson
farm out in the Middle Island district.
adjoining the Dye-BroOks farm, on
which the big gushers were gotten, and
it is a big gasser. This makes the
third big gasser in that section this
summer. The first one was on the
Kellar farm, and is owned by ThOmp-
son & Storey, and the second is the
Bartlett we'll on the BOles farm.
The receipts of the pipe line COM
panies in the Sistersville field yester-
day were IA. 500 barrels. The receipts
of the Eureka lines were S,736 barrels,
and those of the Mellon were 1903 bar
rels.
The Henry Oil Co.'S well, on the
Walkbaugh farm, near Brownsville, o.,
was drilled in yesterday and IS report
ed dry. This was a very important test
and was watched with much interest.
Johnson & Graham's we'll, on the
Riggle farm. out east of Middlebourne,
which was drilled in several weeks ago
and made a showing for a producer,
has been drilled through the Big lnjun
and is good gasser with a slight
showing OF oil 1t may make pro-
Queer when the gas is exhausted.
The we'll of the Standard OIL Co., on
the j. n Ogdin farm, miles northeast
OF Parkershurg. was drilled last even
ing mt 210O feet and filed to the top
with oil. The owners are elated ever
the strike. as the territory is wildcat.
The Eastern Oil COmpany's No. ?, on
the Frieden farm. about 500 feet north
of their No. l. was drilling in the
sand Yesterday afternoon and showing
for 10 barrels a day. This extends the
pool a short distance in that direction.
AT Washington p. O.. Wood county,
several miles south of Parkersburg,
the oil we'll on the McMechen farm
was drilled into the Big lnjun sand
Thursday evening at a depth of 1900
feet and the sand is said TO be nearly
two hundred feet deep and there are
scarcely any traces of oil. The opera
tors interested In the well are debat-
ing whether or not to go through to
The lower sand.
The Burt Oil Company's T. \. Hess,
in the Warrington field, which is due
In the Gordon sand, finished a fishing
lob Thursday night, and drilling was
begun yesterday morning. It is ex-
pected in to-day Especial interest is
taken i'm this well. as it is in new
territory.
The South PENIS we'll on the Sarah
Condit farm, in the Flat Run district,
came in this week. 1t is a gusher,
Ts'Sing from 100 to 1ss barrels an