The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-12
in TIE OIL FIELDS.


llcnwoOh Pool Comes to the Front with
More Good prOduCers-'rhis Pool Now
Attracting More Attention than Any
Other District In thn Southwest.
The Bcnwood pool, In Monroe county,
Ohio, Is getting quite nice little pro-
ductlon piled up now and tho Indications
are that II will be ahead OF quito u num-
Der of tho other pools. There are more
than dozen good producing wells in
that territory and all OF them are maxi
Ing more than ten barrels q day and
some Of them as high as 2JO. The hest
that Of the Fisher Oil Company, on the
Cchrs farm. This company's No. on
that farm, about which there was so
much talk about II declining, Is making
300 barrels every twPnty-rour hours ac-
curdlng to the official guaEe OF the pipe
line company, which takes the oil. on
account OF the volume Of water In this
well the owners have put In n string, OF
thrce-Inch casing, as the regulation two
Inch was not large enough 10 carry or
all the salt water and oil. The other
wells that are making more that ilfty
barrels day are as follows:
Fisher Oh COmpany-No. ] Price, 75
barrels: No. . Price. 40 barrels; No. 3
Price. 100 barrels: No. | Cehrs, 300 bar
rcls: No. l s. p. Wood, 125 barrels; No.
W. r. Wood. so barrels.
Henry OIL Company-No, Holtsclnw,
so barrels.
It will be seen by this guagc OF the
wells at Benwoou that there Is now
n h.. l. al
Of LOO barrels day. while with the
small wells the production ia probably in
the nelghborhood Of l,40O barrels Il day.
This Is n much better showing than
nearly all of the pools Of the southwest
with the exception Of GONE OF the larger
fields like Slstersville and Mannlngton,
have made. and a pleasing feature about
this pool Is that there has not. 80 far,
been n dry hole drilled IN 1t. This IS
showing that not one field In fifty can
give.
The production OF the Hebron field at
present IL In the ncighborho"d OF 1000
barrels day, about 400 barrels less than
the Benwood development. These pools
are the banner ones OF tha southwest
and are about the only territory attract
ing the attention OF the operators. There
Is great deal OF work going on In both
OF them and before another month rolls
by there will be in the nelghborhood OF
twenty-five or thirty wells drilled In in
the two sections. There are now about
thlrty-flve strings OF tools running IN
the two pools and the most OF these wells
will have been completed during this
month.
The outlook for the coming winter Is
good. All OF the large oil companies are
at present making preparations TO take
material TO their leases before the roads
become impossible. and Judging from
this there will be n great deal OF work
started in 4 very short time. The ad-
vance IN the price OF oil will also s;!Tu-
lat. many of the operators to renewed
activity and they will start in TO develop
all their holdings ns rapidly as possible.
The outlook FOR the coming couple OF
months in the oil fields Of this state Is all
that could be desired.
Another good well was drilled in Mt
Bcnwood yesterday afternoon and the
production OF that pool IS gradually In
crcas!n6. The well drilled in yesterday
was the Fisher on COmrany's No. ., on
the Cchrs farm, and Il Is reported ~ be
good for about zoo barrels n day, ma
turnl. II ls located n little to the north
and west OF the first well drilled in cc
this farm and considerably to the north
ments about two locations.
The Fisher Company has drilled In Its
No. !, on the Michael Wood farm, in the
same section. and the indications are
that they will have good producer.
When the well was drilled 10 the top OF
the sand Tuesday evening, 1t COM
mcnced to I'LL up with fluid and couple
0f hours later had filled UP 1000 feet.
This well Is located 10 the east OF pres
ent developments In that field almost
half mile and extends the pool that dis
tance in that direction. 1t is n little
southeast of the Henry OIL Companys
we'll. on the Holtsclaw farm, which Is
doing eighty barrels q day.
The Carter Oil Company drilled No. 4,
on the Thomas Freeland farm. in the
Sancho district. In the back part OF Ty-
Ter county, 1900 feet, and It should be
due In TIE sand In n day or two. This
company has several good wells on this
farm md others on adjoining farms in
the same section.