Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-07
THE OIL FIELDS.
A Review of the Events of the Past
Week.
Disappointments and Surprises all
ArOund-A Big Strike in Richie.
Tn Outlook for This Week.

1 AN O4i AC4Uo VI l4IS OtStl6 SldIl6u OIL
during the week with the largest well
ever drilled in local territory. This
well was the Henry Oil Company's well
on the Dye farm, over in Monroe coun-
", Ohio, which was drilled in Tuesday
morning. The we'll reached the sand
Monday night and showed up nicely,
but when drilled in Tuesday morning
it started of at 100 barrels an hour.
which gait it kept up for several days.
Lateritfell of TO rs barrels an hour, and
at the present time is doing in the
neighbOrhOod OF 60 barrels an hour.
The well is about 1000 feet ahead of
developments over in that section. and
Tor the rest of the week caused a great
deal OF excitement among the talent.
This well coming in such a good pro-
ducer has made the Associated Produc-
ers' stuff on the Deist farm TO the north
west look gilt-edged
There Is considerable talk about the
big wells in the Deist and Dog Skin
pools falling of in production very
rapidly. There is nothing unusual
about this for the reason that when so
many big wells have been struck in
such small space nothing else than
that they should decrease rapidly is TO
be expected. The Deist pool is being
drained at the rate Of about 5000 bar
rels day, and as the territory covered
is not more than half a mile square, it
Is but natural that they should fall off
rapidly.
\ well drilled in during the week
that was rather disappointment was
that Of Roe & Co., on the Eikelberry
ffteen-acre tract. 1t was expected that
this well would be equally as good as
the other wells drilled on the Eikelberry
farms over there. but late reports from
there only place its production ct about
so barrels a day. Two other disap-
pOintments were the Henry Oil Com
pany's Nos. and 3 on the Dye farm.
These wells were also drilled in the
early part Of the week, but instead OF
being good wells, as was expected, they
were both rank dry holes.
The Eastern Oil COmpany's we'll on
the Wright farm, drilled in Monday,
was perhaps the greatest surprise of
the week. There had been dry holes
drilled all around this we'll and every
body thought il was a pure waste of
time and money to complete the well,
and that when it was completed it would
not amount 10 anything. When the
well was drilled in it made a nice flow,
and the hole filled up with fluid. The
well is now estimated 10 be good for
about 125 barrels a day, and there is
possibility that when put 10 pumping
it Will do even better than that.
The principal event Of the week on
the West Virginia side Of the Sisters
vile field was the we'll drilled in by thA
Victor Oil Company on the Rockwell
farm, out on Middle Island creek, in
the Keener pool. The well is consid-
erably ahead of the developments out
in that section and is reported good
for about 900 barrels a day. The
Keener pool out in that section has
been productive of some Of the finest
wells ever drilled in the field and ac-
cording 10 the reports Of the pipe line
companies they are all holding up in
first class style.
The faScO Of the week was the drill
ing in of the wells on Long Run, near
New Bartinsville Early in the pres
ent year Carr Bros. and the Alpha Oil
Company drilled in a well on the Koch
er farm in this section, in which they
got q fair showing Of oil. The we'll was
made a mystery for a long time, and
was reported at various times as good
from anywhere from 10 10 100 barrels q
day. Ii later developed that the we'll
was good for about eight barrels a day
1t was thought that there was good
pool in this section somewhere, and
acting on the theory that the Kocher
well was on the edge Of the pool Wiley
q Slender and Gillespie Bros. located
wells on their leases nearby. Their
wells were drilled in this week, and
We're rank busters in the Big Injun
sand. 1t is understood that Wiley &
Slender will drill their we'll TO the Berea
grit, and if there is nothing found
there they Will go on down to the Cor
don. Gillespie Bros. have abandoned
their well, considering that it was only
q waste of time and money 10 drill any
deeper for the grease.
The Waverly field did not show up
with anything out of the ordinary this
week, but there is every reason TO be
lieve that during the coming week
there will be some good wells drilled
in. There are several due, and they
are all important and are being watch
ed very closely by the talent
Outside of the Sistersville field, the
sensation of the week was the we'll
drilled in by the Kanawha Oil Cimpany
on Plum Run. in Richie county. The
we'll was a rank wildcat, and is re-