Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-07-27
Special to the Register.

SPECIAL 10 tHc heSlSitI.
St Mary's, w. Va, July 2G.-Opera-
tons in the territory in this county con-
tinue brisk and quite number Of wells
are drilling and some new rigs are be-
ing built The next few weeks will see
operations more active than ever be-
fore.
boiler was taken TO Whisky Run
Wednesday for the Barndall well on
the Strickler farm. The rig for this
well is up and the machinery is on the
ground.
The Reese and Graham well at Wiley
School House has been abandoned. The
tools which were fast in the we'll could
not be gotten out and shot was put
in to drive them back. This caused a
cave. and the old hole was abandoned.
The Stewart well on Squire Riggs
farm opposite Raven Rock is down
about 200 feet and is showing up for
a good producer in the Big Injun'
sand. The Dye well half a mile above
T. down 400 feet.
Billiards. No. /, on Smith, is pumping
10 barrels or over per day; and the rig
for No. >, on Smith, will be completed
to-day.
The rig for Barnsdall No. I, on
Brown, will be completed to-day, and
the drill started as soon as the machin-
kerry can be gotten ready.
The Mahan we'll on Sugar creek is still
pumping. and keeps mp It's usual out
put. The we'll in the same reighbor-
mood on VIII Wells farm is down some
400 feet. and has a fishing job on hand.
The timbers are on the ground for
rig on 4. Is. Cores farm. on the right
hand fork of French creek, and work
will be pushed right along. A rig mas
been completed on the Barnsdall land in
the same neigh borhood and drilling will
begin next week.
The shallow we'll on the Sundreman
lot. near the mouth Of Green's run,
came in last Friday, and is Ialr
pumper
The rig for the Stewart well on Grape
Island Is completed and portion OF
the machinery on the ground. Drilling
will begin in few days.
4 we'll has been located on the Char-
ley belong farm by home company,
and the timbers are being gotten on the
ground.L. Z. Mallory has the contract
for drilling this well and will begin OPP
erations as soon as the rig is completed.
Barnsdall No. l, on Brown, Is down
about 400 feet and will probably get the
Cow Run sand to-day
The Reese and Graham well on the
school house lot is drilling ana expects
to reach the sand Monday.
Bradford. Pa. July 26.-Ihe OIL pro
ducers of the Mexican oil field are IN
the dumps tonight owing 10 the SUD
den slump in the price OF crude OIL
They are at a less TO understand the
cause of a fifteen cent decline in two
days. while refined oil remains at the
same price it was before the slump
They say there is nothing in the field
to warrant lower prices. notwiths-and-
ing the LARGE wells being opened IN the
West Virginia oil field, these wells are
short-lived and with the steady decline
in the older fields. they do not begin IS
make up the shortage in stocks, and II
ANYTHING the situation is more bulllsh
to-day than it was two months ago
One prominent producer said tonight
if the shipments this fall are up to
what they We're d year ago, the surplus
will be exhausted in six months.
Another heavy operator said he look
ed for lower prices. because the tanks
of the different pipe lines are again full
and the advance has stimulated opera
tons to such an extent that the de-
cline in stocks has been averted for
the present and the production viii be
large enough TO furnish oil for the
pine lines to do business with. Preyi-
Gus to the advance there were large
number Of oil tanks empty and the
lines had scarcely enough oil to run
their plants with
The outlook is anything but encour-
aging. said another producer. We
have been to great expense i'm build
ing new derricks over old wells and
cleaning them ont and putting them
to pumping. We cannot pump wells
In this field under S1.25 per barrel, the
WELD of the average we'll is TOO small,
but we have our money in them and
must go through with it now. The de-
probation in the commodity will have
a tendency 10 check operations in this
and the Allegheny field, where the ter
ritory that had been considered worth
less years ago. was being drilled for
two barrel wells, there : no money in
the business a. these prices.
The independent line men and oil
refiners declined TO express an opin-
ion