Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-03-01
OIL NEWS.

WaVerly. W. Va. February 81 ne
keystone Oil COmpany's No. 1 on the
Mary Rawson farm is making about 20
feet. The rig will be completed for
No. > and the drill will start the first
of the week.
The Union Oil Company have located
their No 1 on the Peyton Triplett
farm. The rig will be erected at once.
The Florence Oil Company have made
a location on the Taylor tract; also one
on the Page tract. This company will
commence operations at once.
There will be a number of wells drill
ed in this immediate vicinity IN the
near future.
Bateman & WatsOn's well on the
Weatherill tract will be commenced on
the completion of the Strosnider well,
which viii be in some time next week.
The Henry Oil Company's No. ,, on
their Corbitt lease. came in Thursday
of this week a small we'll
The Eastern Oil COmpany's No. ! on
the Ross farm is being pumped. She
will settle down to about a 10 barrel
we'll No. will be in by Wednesday.
The rio is completed and ready for
the machinery on No. 5.
The OCtagon Oil Company are drill
ing in their No. , on the Corbitt farm
on Bull creek.
The Charlotte Oil Company expect
their No. I on the ReynOld farm in to-
| day or Monday.
Afford & Baer's gusher on the Lewis
Ogden farm still promises to be the
| biggest we'll in the Waverly field Ii is
making $50 barrels, and when shot will
/ no doubt greatly increase. The COM
/ pany have made two more locations.
! The rigs are now being erected and
| there will be a number of wells drilled
| in this part of the field: all to the deep
\ sand
A we'll will be drilled on the Z. D.
/ Steere farm right away. The timbers
are now being placed on the ground.
HOsteter q Tenents No. II on the
| Ingram. the well that was reported
| buster, is now making - barrels. The
rigs are built for Nos. II and 13, and
! several locations have been made south
| west of these wells.
Henderson & Co.'S No. I. on Win
| grove, Will reach the sand next week.
Work in the jolly Mills territory will
/ begin again soon.
Capt Frawley's No. 3. on the James
Hunter farm, is down 600 feet and is
| expected in Monday. No ! is doing
pretty we'll Bugram No. 1. on the ad-
! joining lease. is steadily improving.
Snyder & Co.'S No s. on the J. p.
/ Sharp farm, is making so barrels. No.
Q Will be in Monday, the rig is being
/ built for No. 10.
| West Union. w. Va. February %
| The oil excitement still runs high here,
/ caused principally by the large wells
| that have been struck recently on In
/ diana creek and Davis run. in Tyler
/ county, which wells are located about
! II TO IL miles north and northeast of
! here. Several of our local capitalists
are investing in royalties, leases. etc,
/ in that locality. John \. Markey, of
! this place. owns One-half of the royalty
/ on the Weekly tract. on Indiana creek,
upon which the great gusher is located,
| which is now making Is barrels an
| hour w. II. II. Ringer, J. ~ Markey
/ and Milton Underwood. of this cOun-
| ty have bought One-half of the royalty
| in the Pitts land containing 1876 acres.
| Tt lies near the Weekly land The price
/ paid was $1,000. w. G.. Bee and w. J.
/ Horner have taken an option on a tract
| of eight acres lying on Indiana creek
| near the Weekly well, the price to be
| paid being s. 500. b. W. Foley. Fran
| cies Bros and Sheriff John NJ. Gribble
| and others have been buying royalty
| interests in the Davis run and Indiana
| creek fields.
The well on the 1. J Scott farm. two
miles below here drilled by Judge Ed
| win Maxwell. of Clarksburg. came in
| this week duster i'm the Big Injun"
| sand. This is quite a blow to the Pig
sin run field as six wells have been
/ drilled and only one Of them is produc-
ing OIL but it is said that some of the
/ parties interested i'm this territory will
/ drill "a we'll 10 the Gordon sand in the
near future
| There is no new work going on in
this county TO amount to much. except
near the mouth of Little Flint. where
! the South Penn Oil Company are drill
| ing several wells. On Ragans run
| they are also drilling some new wells.
! The Minda Allen No. on this run came
in yesterday good well.
Murphy d jennings are drilling a
number of wells on the Hardman tract.
on Elk Lick and Davis run. They have
made a. locations on this tract and now
/ have "a producers. with no dry holes.
! They have struck oil on a 5000 acre
| lease they have in Wetzel county.
The roads are very bad from here to
! the on fields, and for a time were al
most impossible, but are some better
now and a great deal of material is be-
| ing hauled out. As soon as the roads
get better there viii be a big boom in
Doddridge county.
! Drilling has not been commenced on
| the Prudy A. Taught land. on Bever-
line Fork of McElroy. in which several
/ Wheeling people are interested. the
owners of the lease not being able to
get their boiler out on account of bad
roads.
A well has been located on the II. L.
Wanstreet land, near the Rastle wells.
i'm Lewis county.
Special TO the Register.
Sistersville. W. Va. February %
While there We're not many wells drilled
i'm this field this week it was one of
great excitement The first thing on
the programme was the drilling in of
| the DevOnian OH COmpany's No. 1 on
the Lloyd Weekly farm.
The Mountain State Gas Company
shot their No. on the Ferguson farm
yesterday and so far it has not re-