Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-01-23
OIL NOTES.

! Eastern Tennessee has q burning oil
| well at Glenmary. Ii was drilled By the
/ Weiser Bros. and i estimated to be flow
/ ing l 200 bbls.
/ The Standard is paying sl,40 today.
| MARIOS-The well IN the Levi Porter
was pumped last Thursday, and it filed a
/ 5O-bbl tank in hours II is located one
and half miles southwest of ClintOnVille
and Is owned by william Stuart d Co, OF
Grove City. When the third sand was
first struck the we'll flowed natural clear
over the top OF the derrick, and at last ac-
counts il was still flowing, although not in
/ such quantity. II is said 10 be good for
100 barrels, and will be the cause OF drill
ing taking on boom in that district.
MUDDYCREEE-The well on the Shields
did i bhls the hrst dey.
HARMoYY-The Big Crack extentengior,
is getting right to the front with some
very nice producers.
Sutton d Company have put their No.
Foeghtly to pumping and it is putting the
right kind of fluid into the tank, a, the
rate of 200 barrels a day.
The J. NJ. Patterson d 4cGIll well on
the Whiteside farm, is improving its pro-
duction, and is now producing $50 barrels
sday.
oYNOQUESESSING-The Forests we'll on
the P. W. Thomas reached the sand, last
Saturday, and began spOuting oil and
water over the derrick. II is but % ieet
in tao sand and il another pay is struck it
will make a good we'll.
Mt. CHESTYUT-Brown It Co.'S we'll on
the Henry Bright is doing II bbls.
MISUNDERSTANDING d Chaplin are
drilling on their own form; and have the
tools stuck in the % sand. Tebay &
Wubar have located on tie Hays.
HINGTON-Greenville parties got a
10 barrel well on the B. F. billiard.
KAYLOR-The Mattern d Co. well was
completed last Friday, and is a duster.
This well bad been drilling for about four
months and during this period, one dis
couragemeut has followed another, so that
numerous times the owners we're thinking
seriously of abandoning it, Several times
the tools were struck in the hole, and when
the matter would be fixed up, some other
difficulty would bob up. Something would
90 wrong with the casing, necessitating its
removal while i1numerable obstacles
enough 10 discourage the hardest prospec-
tons, presented themselves. At one period
things " ere running along quite smoothly
and the memEers of the company We're
cougratulafing themselves, hoping that
their trials were about over, when al un-
fortunate accident occurred. A dGller
named Braden, who lived with lis wife
and children at Two Mile run, near Frank
lin, as caught between the headache post
and the walking beam, being crushed so
badly that death ensued in a few hours
This caused operations TO cease for several
weeks, and caused some of the owners to
thiuk that the well was, indeed,
Jonah" They were in favor of giving
the business up, but a couple, more plucky
than the others induced the dishearted
ores to stay, and drilling operations were
once more resumed.
The Oil City Derrick Of yesterday had
the following cheerful outlook for Butler
county operators. The field situation in
this district has improved greatly during
he past week, and it now looks as if
Butler county, though disGgured in the
past three-months by numerous dry holes
and wells Of small caliber, is still to be
heard from as an oil producing center
The wells to infusR new life into the blood
Of the omnipresent propucer are located
in widely separated locations The Mar
ion Ill Co.'S venture on the Big Como
quenessing considerable distance south
J
nest important. The well has been shot
and is now being cleaned out Every in
dicatiohs points to well from 100 to so
bbls. per day, and opens up quite a space
Of territory heretofore classed as worthless
TIE McGill g. Co's.well on the j, White
side farm is another well that was in the
nature of a surprise party to the lucky
owners. Two wells had already been drill
ed on the same lease, with Indifferent sue
cess, and when the present well was in the
sand one Of the owners was so disgusted
with its promises hat he sold an one. eigh-
tn for $500. The well started off at 60 bbls
per day and gradully came up until it Is
now making ITO bbls.
1t has had rejuvcnating effect upon the
old Csoperstown field, and considerable
new work is being rapidly pushed in its
vicinity.
Another venture of the purely wildcat
kind is Brown & Co.'S. well on the Bright |
farm, near Mt. Chestnut The well was
drilled through the sand about a week ago
and set to pumping natural. 1t has made |
go bbls, already and Is holding quite steady |
at 10 bbls per day. The well shows up
good enough to induce one to experiment
still further