Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-02-28
OIL NEWS.
Special to the REGISTER.


Sistersyille, w. Va, February 81
There was no change in the price of
credit balances to-day, but it is hard
to tell how soon there will be. The
operators are on the anxious seat, and
are looking for a luctuation at any
time.
The Associated Producers have
brought in a 2O-barrel-an-hOur we'll in
the fourth sand in the Mcdonald field
that is attracting some attention in oil
circles.
The Weekly well is reported at IS
barrels an hour and Kyle 80 barrels an
hour. Ten wells have been started il
the Indian creek pool since the Weekly
came in.
Finnegan Wilson & Co. have drilled
in their No. Hensel in the Deist dis
trict and have 75-barrel producer.
Holders Of leases to the northeast Of
the old Frieden pool are anXiously
waiting for the Betchel well which is
due next week, to come in. 1t is own
ed by the Eastern Oil Company.
The Victor Oil and Gas Company
have drilled their No FuTbee in with
no increase in the production. 1t is
making about 80 barrels day.
The Florence Oil Company have
drilled their well on Elk run into the
Big Injun sand and struck big flow OF
gas. They will go to the Berea grit.
The Fisher Oil Company have the rig
Up for their No. 5, on the Pfeil farm.
The well of the Wheeling Oil and Gas
Company on the lille farm, out to-
wards Archer's Fork, will be drilled to
the Berea at once.
The well drilled in by the Alta Oil
Company on the Bryant farm at Waiver
ly. which, when drilled in only made
showing for about seven barrels a day,
has been increasing right along and is
now making twenty barrels every TWEEN
ty-four hours.
Three new derricks are going up near
Dawes postofIlce in Ohio. A. A.
Stewart is putting a rig up on A. T.
Dyes farm, the Philadelphia Company
is building one on C. Holdren and the
Hardly Able Company is building an
other on Irwin Holdren's farm.
Specia to the Register.
Parkersburg. ". Va, February ~
Three new wells have been located on
C. =. Ross's farm at Waverly, and
Hoschtetter & Tenant have also To-
Gated three on the r. p. lngraham farm
in the same field. Butler has also To-
Gated two wells on the WingrOye tract.
An oil company has been formed at
StilweN. and is known as the Citizens
Oil Company. The company will at
once put down test well on the King
farm at that place.
The well at Burning Springs, which
created so much excitement by its
production of oil in the 400-foot sand,
has exhausted itself, and was pumped
dry in twenty-fOur hours. The well
struck a small pocket of oil in the 400
foot sand and the owners will go
deeper drilling having been already
resumed.
The Lubbock Oil Company have placed
a new boiler at their well near here,
and President Lehman states that the
drill will be sent down to the Gordon
sand at a depth of $500 feet.
A rig has been erected by Messrs.
Russell e Skinner near The well struck
by them at Burning Springs last week,
and the drill Will be started in few
days. A we'll viii aso be started on
the J. W Tucker OF and Lawrence &
Kennedy will also work on the rig for
another near the Tucker well. Park
Brothers are drilling on their well
near the Lawrence {. Kennedy well.
The uBrning Springs fed is the cen
ter of attraction for a large number Of
operators, and the outlook for the field
this spring is very dattering. The oil
now causing much interest is found
below the Big Injun sand in what is
known as the Keener sand.
Latshaw & Ernest drilled in their
No. well on the Henderson farm,