Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-05-01

son farm. Some time during last win
ter they arranged with the North Penn
people, a new oil company made up
principally of Wheeling men, to drill a
test we'll on the Rogerson farm.
The we'll was drilled and the result
has set the stubble on fire. The well
has been producing from the shallow
sand for more than twenty days, yet
the production holds up to the top rec
ord after the head was pumped off,
To estimate the production of the well
at 20 barrels is altogether on the con-
servative side.
The new ventures that this well has
brought into existence is the North
Penn No. 9, located about 200 feet from
No. /. in d northeast direction. The
drill was started yesterday evening.
The Moundsville Oil Company's
(Ramy & SULLIVAN well on the George
Griffith tract and located about 400 feet
southwest OF the North Penn NO. L,
started 10 spud yesterday. =.
Johnson, Dorsey & Co. have a well
started on the Mccarthy farm. Their
well is located about 400 feet northeast
of North Penn No. 2. They are down
about $50 feet with the first string OF
casing placed. With good luc!', the
drillers will tap the Cow Run within a
week.
]. b. Mckee has rig stared on the
Bell farm, about three-fourths OF mile
west of the Rogerson farm. The der
rick is up TO about the first tier OF girts.
Holt, Carnegie & Co. have rig start
ed on the Ryerson farm, some distance
north of the Rogerson producer.
Stewart has the timbers on the
ground for a rig on the Griffith 20-acre
tract. about a mile direcaly east OF the
Rogerson farm.
A Wheeling party is placing stun on
the ground for rig on the Reilly tarm(
about l 300 feet north of the North Penn
producer.
AS far as could be learned. the above
are the ventures commenced and under
way at this date. With fair luck these
wells will all touch the sand by the
middle of May and will go long way
toward defining the shallow sand pool.
The Rogerson pool may not prove TO
be large in territory, but it has been
fully demonstrated by other test wells
drilled about the neighborhood of
Moundsville that territory in that vicin-
ity is we'll dotted with shallow sand
pools of more or less magnitude. There
is plenty of evidence to substantiate
this conclusion without the aid of the
rabbits foot. Besides the conclusive
assurance that this field will soon be a
great shallow sand producer, it is
known to certainty that there is a
pool of Big Injun sand oil in some part
Of the field This has been fully DEM
onstrated by the developments in the
old Hicks well and other tests in the
field
The Rogerson farm Is beginning to
show blossoms of the TYPICAL oil field.
Steam is blowing off from the boilers OF
the drilling wells, the ring of the tool
dreSser's sledge is heard from the der
rick anvil, while the teamsters are here
and there shifting heavy material.
Ii is evident from the line drawn
around the big well that the company
does not take much pleasure in the in
terest visitors take in seeing and know
ing for themselves what the we'll is do
ing, how she squirts oil, etc. Within
radius Of an acre space around the well
are big posters. which read:
"Notice.-Positiyely no admittance
on these premises. This means you.
By order OF North Penn Oil & Gas Co"
The Eureka pipe line has been COM
pleted to Glendale and work is going on
at the receiving tank at the railroad