The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-01-11

The well being drilled by the Victor
OH Company on the Kyle farm. out on
Indian creek, Tyler county, reached the
sand Thursday night and wasshut down
until the boiler could be moved back
and tankage erected, for the reason
that rs soon as the bit struck the sand
the we'll showed considerable gas and
nice lot OF oil. Drilling was resumed
In the morning. says the OIL Review, and
when the drill was only short dis
lance in the sand the well commenced
to How, and at noon was reported 70 be
making twenty barrels an hour. This
well is located about quarter OF q mile
10 the west OF the Big Moses gas well
(. drilled I'm by the Victor on Company
about two years ago. which was re-
Gently sold TO the Philadelphia Gas
Company. The Kyle well was q rank
wildcat, and was drilled solely on the
theory that there is almost always a
pool OF oil in close proximity TO big
strike OF gas. The well opens up n
block OF territory miles in extent, and
will make things hum in that section.
Some of the largest oil companies held
large amounts of territory out In that
section. and this well coming in a gush-
er Will likely be the cause OF quite q
4 number OF them starting to drill. There
are at the present time number OF
locations made on leases and work
viii be Commenced on the wells at once.
The youthful but lusty Colerain field.
across the river in Belmont county, Is
attracting more attention than ut any
time since the Gasmire company's Star
buck producer came In last summer,
In the coleraip field proper there has
not been a duster recorded, a record
approached by no other field in the
southwest district. There are now fbur
producers, whose daily out put Is lS5
barrels; they are; Lupton well, Stand
ard ou Company so barrels; starbuck
wei. Gasmlrc & Thompson. % barrels:
Clarke well, Standard oil Company. 70
barrels. and the new Shorkey well. Is
barrels. That Is n showing which IS
sure to attract attention 10 the field,
especially while the market Keeps
around the 81 50 mark
Operations are lively In the Colerain,
field just now Here Is what Is being
done over there:
Mcclure & Westwood are building
rig on their lease.
The West Virginia NGoiral Gas Com
pany Is building rig on the Theo Clark
farm.
ne ctAnOAFu ID pbNNA4Ab
mp two rigs on the Mrs. Clark farm,
where they recently brought in the
Clark No. /, which Is now doing 10 bar
rels
Heard & Barnsdall are drilling one
well on the Broken farm.
The Ohio OH Company Is putting up
3 another rig on the Lupton farm.
The Thompson Oil and Gas Company
Is drilling on the Waller tract.
Thompson & Gasmlre have their rig
completed on the starbuck farm and
.wilIlcommence drilling early next week
The same firm have moved their rig
on the Thomas Malin farm and Will
begin drilling next week. Gasmire 4
Thompson have rig up on the =. d.
I Steer farm and will drill at once.
chauncey Hogg has a rig completed
on his Hall lease.
westwood & Shubert arc building Q
rig on the Walker farm near the west
ern edge OF the field.
on the Jacob Null farm Heard u
Barndall are drilling at 700 feet.
The Standard is drilling well on the
/. Bundy tract Yesterday the drill was
down 800 feet.
How many people could correctly
answer the question as to who drilled
the FIRST oil well in West Virginia? Not
an overwhelming number we venture
10 say, and yet II was prominent and
influential citizen OF ParkersburS. says
the State Journal.
q. II. Shattuck Is that historic per-
sonage, and the hole was drilled in
Writ county on the bank OF the Hughes
river in 1859. II was during the time
when the oil fever was a national cpl
deniic, aggravated by thefblg strikes In
Pennsylvania. In those days 1t was
the custom of the people along the
Hughes river TO gather up the oil,
which fIosted on the surface OF that
stream. by means OF blankets, from
Z which they wrung the precious huiu
and then sold II ut the rate OF $50 per
barrel for use us medicine. 1t being
considered q sovereign specific for
rheumatism and stlff joints. Mr.. Shat
ft1ck came from Michigan to this re-
gion and put down the first well by
means of q spring pole. II was about
100 feet deep and WINS as dry as the
desert OF Sahara or a Kentucky man
in temperance town.
II was left for General Samuel Carnes
10 strike the FIRST oil, and that without
drilling at all. AT Burning Springs n
well had been drilled for salt. II might
have been brilliant success had not
dirty, bad-smelling. disagrceable fluid
called petroleum persisted In flooding
the hole, thus utterly running the val
liable salt. The builder OF this hole
gave It up in disgust, being unable to
yet rid OF the obnoxious fluid which
spoiled his chance OF making his for
tune in salt. General Carnes camo
Z along later I'm 1900 and quietly put
i pump down the well and began pump
ing petroleum, II was n big well,
though a shallow one.
II remained for our own Charles b.
Tavenner to put down the first deep
well in the state, in 1883. 1t was Tor Is,
as II Is flowing yet. being owned by a
stock company 2.l1O feet deep. and ia
located on Rock run, tributary OF
stlliweil.
w. II. Moore started the phenomenal
eruption Of that Volcano-now, nlasl
extinct-by drilling the first well there
In 1853 That Is to say this was the
first well at Volcano proper; several
wells having been drilled. prior to
Moore's in the territory between Vol
cano and Petroleum, by Ford & Han
len.
Big GHAsrT.
Yesterday a big Ensser came In Mt
Limestone. in Marshall county, where
InIIy Rrnfhnru Vcrc drilling FIR nil The