The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-17
IN THE Oil. FIELDS.
Crawford 4 Treat Bring In n Good Wen
In the Rank Wildcat Territory In tho
Interior of Tyler County.


One OF the greatest surprises ever OK
perlcnccd by the farmers and oil men in
Tyler County was felt yesterday morn
ing. About s O'Clock word was received
In slstersvllle by telegraph that Treat &
Crawrord's well. on the Clutter farm.
near Wick. had been drilled in and had
started or Mt the rate OF ten barrels per
hour. Further news from there sub
stimulates the first report and predicts
that when the well IL completed Il will
make n 800 barrel producer. This freak
Is situated one and quarter miles
| southwest OF the famous Wick pool and
ove- a half mile from any other. loca-
tfons. and adjo!ns the Ell Davis proper
~. When the drill reached the sand the
| casing filled several hundred feet and
when It was sent deeper The crude ma
terial Is reported as squirting over the
top OF the derrick and flooding the sur
rounding territory. Great excitement
prevails and nearly all the available
conveyances In SIstersYille were imme-
dlately gobbled UP by the operators.
The fact that the oil men looked upon
this venture as q piece OF foolishneSs,
| owing 10 Its out OF the way location,
goes to show that nearly every farm
quIres confidence TO find Il.
Says ID. s. W." the Standard man, In
his weekly review of the West Virginia
oil fields: The lower southwest field
| rather outstrlppcd the local fields In the
| number OF good producing wells COM
| pleted during the week. The Benwood
pool. In Monroe county, and the Hebron
! pool. in Tyler county, both increased
| their production very materially, md
| from present indications they are both
capable OF doing still better. In the
| Hebron pool the Cow Run sand Is some
thing OF a factor The second well on
| the Catharlnc Jones farm was drilled by
the South Penn Oil Company, and start
| ed at 10 barrels day. In the Big In
| jun development the Carter OIL Com
pany got n fifteen barrel an hour pro-
Queer at It's No. 6. ]. D. Livingston.
The new wells In the Bercl Grit terri
| tory in Wood county, are not as large as
| first reported, but are q size that will en-
| courage operators 10 continue the search.
| The well on the Richardson farm, south
| west OF the Ogden pool. was worked AS
| mystery and caused good deal OF cN-
| element. II was shot early In the past
| week and tho most liberal estimate did
not place Its production nj more than
fifteen OF twenty DtITciS u uuy.
The deep sand territory In Tyler ooun-
| ty, close 10 the Wetzcl and D0ddridSn
county lines, IS claiming some attention
| and will be active during the winter
months. The big Hardinan tract In
| DoddrldSe county. presented Murphy,
| Jennings & CO.. with 300-barrcl pro-
| duncGr when No. 81 was drilled In to the
| sand carly In the week.
Operations in the lower southwest
| fields are increasing In several districts
| Along the eastern edge of Tyler county
some OF the larger companies have map
ped out n good deal of new work and It
will be rushed to completion. Operators
are beginning 10 complain Mt the bad con-
ditlon OF the roads In West Virginia and
are bending every energy TO got sup
| piles back into the interior before the
roads get In an impossible condition, as
J they were last winter.
In the Dolls run district, MonhnEala
county. the South Penn OIL Company
haH completed Its No. 10. on the Sanford
| Barrickman farm. and has twenty-five
barrel pumpcr. In Wctzel district the
same company has completed a twenty
five barrel well on the James Wade
farm. On the !. D. Morgan farm the
South Penn company has also drilled In
It's No. 0 and will have 100 barrel pro-
Queer
Murphy, Jennings &: Co.'S No. 4s.
Hartman. Is now past duo In ths sand.
but no word has been received from 1t
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