Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-01-22
OIL NEWS.


Special to the Register.
S.s-ersv.le, January 22.-An oil man
las. evening was showing an oil map CT
the fed on the Ohio side Of The river.
He has been all over the ground and
was familiar with each farm from here
20 Marietta. He says that the whole
country from here 70 MARIETTA IS prac-
-.cally under lease with g0Od mon ny
rercals. OF course there are a number
CT farms no, under lease, but there IS
practically continuous line Of leases
from here 10 Marietta. 1. takes a good
big pile Of money to carry so much land,
but the land is held by hundreds Of d.T-
feren- men, and makes the tax cOmpar-
aiysiy ligh,. No one can give any
good reason for this state Of things, bur
ii is -rue
The Victor OIL Company win COM
mence building q rig for well on the
Thomas Smith farm near Centeryille
the latter part Of the week.
The Sou.h Penn has made two lOca-
lions this week near Cenreville, and
viii eyec- rigs az once. One of the wells
is located on the Andrew Ssckman
farm, q short distance east of the Fur
bee well, and the Other one is on the
John Seclman farm a lit,.e south Of the
Furbee.
There have been quite a number of
locations made on the southwes, side
of Indian cresk by persons holding ter
ritOry in that section, and the rigs will
be built al once These locations eX-
tend from Cenreville 10 Braden 5
pump station, a distance of eight miles.
A practical oil man came in this
morning from the John BuIlman well,
near Wick POs.Cffice, owned by the Vie
tor Oil Company. He said that he had
been az The Bulman well for Two or
three days and had taken an actual
gauge of the well. and that in twenty
four hours it had made exactly 4S0 bar
rels of oil a day that this was not guess
work what an actual gauge shows.
Judging from me location Of the Bull
man from the two wells on the Anthony
Smith farm, She producers guess that
the pool of oil opened up the Bullman
strike will run northeast and southwest
The drill alone, however, can tell this.
The pullman well flows regularly as
clock work and has no salt water in it,.
The runs of the Eureka Pipe Line
Company for the Uwenty-four hours
ending his morning at seven o'clock,
were 1867 barrels.
Craig. Ham & Ramey's well on the
]. r. Bo,eS farm, out on Middle Island
! creek. was drilled twenty in the sand
yesterday. and last evening was making
a big lc, Of salt water and very little
OIL L. is Thought the well Will not
amount 10 anything.
There is another important well due.
We'd from this evening was that they
were drilling in the lime and expected
TO reach the Big Injur sand tomorrow
sometime. The we'll is on the James
Fox land. abou- half way between the
XVI and Bu,lman well, on or near the
waters Of Sancho creek. If it also
should come in 2 gusher it would look
q great deal as If an oil field about tif-
teen miles long. and no one would know
how wide &c would be had it been open
ed -hsre in orr own county.
Contracts were closed in this city
last night for the drilling Of two wells
near the Bullman well, in the Wick
field
Some people used to predict that this
oil field would be a second Bradford
pool Now they reverse the order and
saw the Bradford field was second to
the Sis.ersviue field Sistersville will
lead
Word was received from the Kyle well
this morning to the effect that the
we'll was doing in the neighbOrhood OF
twelve barrels a day and had been MAX
inc that amount for the past two or
three days.
Mcclure q Co. are rigging up at their
we'll on the Thorn farm. out on Middle
Island. 10 the north of the Morris and
will comence drilling in a couple OF
| days.