Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-03-15

The reports from Colerain field yes.
terday continued to be OF the most en-.
couraging nature, and it is a settled
opinion among oil men in this part Of
the country that the field has a future
and that it will be the scene Of a great
deal of activity during the ensuing few
weeks
Yesterday morning early the gauges
of the Bracl1en we'll showed that il had
averaged thirty-two barrels during the
night and up TO 9 o'clock Yesterday
morning From that hour until one
o'clock in the afternoon the hourly av-
erage was about twenty-five barrels.
and from that time ON to last evening
the average was a little less than twenty
barrels. The we'll will probably settle
down at something like three hundred
barrels a day, at which figure il will
be an elegant thing. 1t has already at
tracted the attention Of oil men over a
very wide extent of territory. while the
local talent are fully alive to the possi-
bilities and probabilities Of the future
and are preparing to get everything out
of the situation. Already seven or eight
new locations have been made East.
South and Southwest Of the Bracken
well, and before many days the drillers
will be at work.
Last night everybody conversant with
the field was listening for a report from
the Clark No. 3 well which Is located
just across the road from the Bracken
gusher, and which was due TO get the
sand last night. Whether or not the
we'll was drilled in could not be ascer-
tanned last evening.
The Thomas Malin well owned by
Barnsdall, Gasmire & Thompson. has
put in the last string Of casing, and is
due in the sand about Monday
The Waller well is down about ff-
teen hundred feet, and is due in about
two weeks.
The Starbuck well drilled by Barns
dali, Gasmire & Thompson, is due in
about the 22d inst.
There are six producing wells and
! fifteen holes drilling in the field with
half a dozen new locations made and
more to come in short time, which
statement will give an idea OF the ac-
LlNily VI ILlS llJClS lt.lu. 40 oool d.
something about the-oulines OF the
pool has been q = ~ Z d-a-et, the situa-
tion is sized up sS1il,l,.. -,
cided increase in the prL "" W., in viii
take place. At present, as a matter OF
course, there is a good deal of guess
work for the early operators. but that
/ is about the only thing to be- expected
in budding field. There is ar active
demand for maps Of the COlerain field,
and a supply was placed on sale in
this city yesterday.
The oil developments in the immediate
vicinity Of this city. as well as thoee far
ther down in tho State have brought a
! considerable number Of strangers TO
| Wheeling for permanent locations. and
others are 10 come a little later IN The
spring. Several families from Penuslva-
MIA have secured residences on the Island
lately. and enquiries are being made right
along for a good class Of houses With
the coming in Of the Colerain field and ths
promise OF paying developments In this
and Marshall counties, there VIII soon be-
further influx Of citizens Of a good class.
to say nothing of the increase I'm general
business. and the city Is bound 10 be very
greatly benefited from oil sources during
the next twelve moths. II would be
good thing for our people to recognize this
fact and aid matters in every way iH their
power.