Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-04-02
in THE OIL FIELD.


Carter Oil Company's we'll on the Stone
king farm is now drilling at a little
more than 95 feet in the sand with but
a very small showing of oil, perhaps
not more than one barrel an hour a
slight decrease from what it was re-
ported to be making yesterday.
The Deyonian Oil Company's well on
the Ash farm is reported to be on top
of the pay andSshowing a little oil.
The general condition of affairs has
changed but little during the past three
or four days, on account of the gas
struck in the wells in the Indian Creek
field. The work out in that section,
nevertheless, goes merrily on, and from
forty to fifty wagon loads of material
leaves here every morning for Indian
Creek and intermediate points. Every
day men arrive who are in many cases
unacquainted with the oil business, but
who are not only willing but anxious
to invest their money. At the present
time all the hotels are full of guests,
and people failing to secure rooms be-
fore 4 o'clock are compelled to sleep on
cots at the restaurants or seek lodging
at private residence.
The Carter Oil Company's No. White,
mile and half northeast of the pro-
ducing wells in the Indian Creek pool,
is on top of the sand.
c. w. Brockunier has completed rig
for No. 1 Conway heirs.
The Joseph Spencer No. 1, big gas
ser, is spraying some oil.
A prominent Oil man of this city who
was out in Washington county yester-
day, said last evening that Harmon &
Co.'s we'll on the Hanlon farm was MAX
ing three barrels day, and that he
did not think it would ever make
paying producer. This will give a
black eye to big lot of territory out
in that section. The Hanlon we'll will
probably be shot, in which case it may
be of some account.
Parkersbnrg, w. Va, March 31.-H.
Wilson e Co. will drill another well at
Athey, this county, as their efforts to
remove the casing from the Plum Run
well was unsuccessful. No. we'll, on
c. S. Reeds farm, has been plugged
and abandoned, and another we'll will
be put down near by.
In the Waverly field developments
are becoming little livelier. The we'll
on R. P. Ingraham's farm, owned by
Barnsdall, is making over 16O barrels
a day, and Baer & Affords we'll on L.
Ogden's farm is keeping up at over IS
barrels day. Tie well of the Echo
Oil Co. on Noah Ogden's farm had a
good showing of oil in the Salt sand,
but not in paying quantities, and the
company will drill to the Berea grit.
Rigs are being erected for Baer G.
Affords Nos. apd wells, and they
haye two wells drilling on L. Ogden's
lease. A well is also being put down
on the Headley farm by Gillespie Bros.
The we'll of the Murrayville Oil & Gas
Co. was drilled to the Cow Run sand
last evening at 72O feet. The sand is
40 feet thick. There was not sufficient
showing of oil to warrant pumping,
and on account of an error in starting
the well the hole was too small to drill
deeper as the company desired to do,
and at a meeting held last night they
decided to sink another we'll on the
same lease.
Several barrels of oil have been taken
from the well at the bottom and the
fluid is standing 35 feet in the hole
The owners are in Pittsburg, where a
meeting is being held to decide what
action to take in the matter.
Nos. 2 and 3 wells of the Davidson
Oil Co., in the Athey field, near Will
Jamestown, will commence drilling
next week.
Only about Is barrels a day can be
taken from the Florence Oil Co. IS No. 4
we'll on the Cross farm at Wayerly.