Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-14

Things in This Neighborhood.
Ohio and Marshall County Wells.
Interest in the Colerain oil field,
which experienced a boom Wednesday,
when the Br6cken we'll came in at the
rate of ten or twelve barrels a day,
received another decided impetus yes
terday afternoon, when news was re-
ceived that the we'll had been shot and
that its production had been doubled
or trebled.
1t was the general concensus OF opln-
ion and report, before the we'll was
shot, that it was doing ten or twelve
barrels an hour. or say 275 barrels
day. but Yesterday after the shot was
put off it was pretty difficult to get
a reliable statement, even from men
who had just come in from the well.
One man who made the trip out told
Register reporter that after the tor
pedo was fired'the we'll averaged twenty
barrels. and that anything stated over
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gentleman said thirty-five barrels an
| hour was the correct figure, and that
! there was no use in putting the produc-
ton at less than it really was. In de-
spair the reporter hunted up third
man. who had also been out TO the well.
He said that thirty barrels an hour
was about the thing, and that the well
was splendid piece of oil property,
and ought not to be either Over-rated
or put at too low a figure, Under
| these circumstances it is likely that the
we'll is doing twenty-five 10 twenty
eight barrels an hour, or $50 TO Go bar
rels a day.
There were a great many visitors at
the we'll both Thursday and yesterday,
despite the cold and snowy weather,
and the greatest possible interest Is
being taken in the field not only by
/ local oil men. but those at distant points
as we'll. 1t is the general feeling that
the well is but the beginning of an num-
| Der Of good things in the eastern por-
| ton of Belmont county, and the pre-
diction was frequently heard yesterday
that within the next thirty days large
number of wells would be started and
! that Martins Ferry and Wheeling
would reap an almost immediate and
pronounced benefit from the oil boom
which would inevitably follow. There
is already talk of an oil we'll supply
house for either Martins Ferry or
| Wheeling. and a few more even moder-
ate gushers in territory around this
city will add very materially TO the bus
mess of this community and to the
corresponding benefit of the surround
ing country.
Just where the pay streak at Cole
rani runs does not appear to have been
very well settled by the strike on the
Bracken farm. and those who have
leases near by are in quite a frame of
mind as TO whether or not they are on
the line A number of new test holes
will have to settle this interesting ques-
ton. and then the fun will come in,
along with oil. There is no reason TO
suppose that the pool is confined to the
immediate vicinity of the present well,
but that the streak has a considerable
extension in one or two directions, with
a chance that it will show up even bet
ter at some point than it did on the
Bracken.
GOuld's Station, on the same line
north of the present Colerain field,
has been very profitable for its own
ers. but the COerain pool, farther
down the slope gathering in the oil
to its basin from a longer stretch Of
this "Barea' sand. which covers the
State of Ohio from Lake Erie to the
Ohio river basin. is now established as
far superior to the Gould Station
field. While Gould Station is good,
COlerain is better There are other
possibilities on the same line, a little
farther southwest in Belmont county.
and for same reason that COlerain is
better than GOuld's Station, this may
be better than Colerain. Reference is
here made to what is known as the
Glencoe field. i'm which three product
i've wells were drilled some years since
7 by some of the Old-time PENNSYLVANIA
| operators. before the Mcdonald field
was opened up. The wells were not
large, but larger than anything in the
COlerain field prior to the Bracken
well. before having been tOrpedoed.
The Glencoe wells were never tOrped-
/ Oed. Passing Glencoe on same line,
nothing important has been struck un-
til we reach the MaXburg field. The
+ richest 'Barea grit pool ever discover
ed. and which has produced millions
of barrels of oil. was opened first about
1861, and there are wells in it still pro-
ducing Oil
Work in the interior of this county
and over in Marshall by the Twilight
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