Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-25
N TIE OIL FIELDS.
The Report That the School House
Well Was Drilled In
Was a Fake-A Big Gusher in
Wood County - The Mountain
State Gas Cos Mystery Near
Parkersburg - Notes From the
Different Fields.

The special telegram published in
the Register yesterday morning from
Woodsfeld, O., stating that the briggs
d Co.'S well on the school house lot in
the Dog Skin district was in and that
it would make q 600 barrel producer,
was hoax. 1t was expected that the
well would be drilled in last night but
up TO late hour nothing had been
heard from il. The correspondent who
sent in the telegram had evidently
been misinformed. The well was not
due until yesterday afternoon and
there is a possibility that the CORE
sDondent was given the item by some
one with a nObject.
The well on the J. L. Ogdin farm,
several miles from Parkersburg, is be-
ing worked as a mystery by the own
ers, the Mountain State Gao Company,
who expected TO secure a good gas well
in that field. On Wednesday the drill
ers found that they had unexpectedly
struck the top OF the sand and there
was q splendid showing of oil but no
gas. The we'll was closed down and all
the officers OF the company were noti-
fed and arrived on the ground Friday.
They positively refused to furnish any
I information further than that the well
would not be drilled in, nor would they
say when operations would be resumed.
! This much is known, however, that the
drill is only on the top OF the sand and
that there is considerable oil in the
Well
The Waverly oil field is just now at
tracing the attention OF operators and
( promises to forge to the front as the
leading field in Wood county.
On the Edward Sharp farm the Sny-
der Oil Company's we'll came in yester-
day and is big gusher The well put
nearly 100 barrels of oil in the tank IN
II hours
A rig is being erected about forty
feet from this we'll on the Cooper farm
by the Florence Oil Co., who expect a
good we'll
The Snyder Company are also put
ting up second rig on the Edward
Sharp farm and on the J. 2. Sharp
farm also.
This company's No. / on tie Cooper
farm, in which the casing collapsed
when the drillers had one screw in the
sand. will be down again TO the sand
i'm q few days and is expected to come
in a gusher. as the indications were
such when the accident 10 the well Oc-
Cured.
The smith well. No. ?. i'm Peasants
county, near ST. Mary's, was Crilled IN
yesterday and is good for twenty bar
rels O day. The oil was found at $50
feet
Mallory No. !. on The belong farm.
iu the same district. was drilled IN
yesterday. Only sixteen feet of sand
was found and bat little OIL not sutti-
cieut 90 pay. The Wcll VIII DE drilled
Oh down 10 The Big lnjun sand.
The Wiley welI on French creek, is
again .u good working shape and drill
ing on DO is progressing nicely.
The Eastern OH COmpany's no. ?, on
Che Freilen farm, over in the Dog Skin
district. which was reported drilling
iu the sand yesterday and showing for
"a producer. was drilled through the
sand and is dry. AT the top Of the
sand there was a slight showing OF
OIL but the deeper they went the less
oil there was.
The receipts of the pipe line compan-
les in the Sistersville field yesterday
we're 1870 barrels The receipts Of
the Mellon lines were 460O barrels,
and those of the Eureka $40 barrels.
Murphy * Jennings No. ,, on the
Hardman farm, in DOddridge county,
which was drilled in over three months
ago. is increasing its production right
along. Since it was drilled in it has
increased 70 barrels day. The other
wells of this company in the same dis
trict are an holding up to what they
came i'm at. showing that they have
tapped a big pool No. g. on the same
farm. is on the top of the sand and
viii be drilled in Monday
Nichols & Co. will put the timbers
on the ground Monday for a rig on thei
A. Taught farm, out in the Middle ISL
and district and viii commence drill
ing as soon as possible.
The casing waSput i'm the Associated
Producers No. . Deist yesterday.
The same cOmpany's No. 3, on the
same farm. is drilling at 300 feet, and
the contractors are rigging up on Nos.
7, % ana b.
It was reported on good authority
Yesterday that the big gushers in the
Dye-Brooks district were falling of in
production. and that they We're not
making now within POO barrels of what
they were doing when drilled in.
Clel Nichols will put the timbers on
the ground on Monday for rig on the
Thomas Mckay farm, adjoining the
Rockwell farm. out in the Middle ISL
and district.
LAST Atlantic City Excursion Wa Il. & o
Thursday. August ED, 1898.
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