The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-23
BENW0ODFPO
In Monroe County Still tic rca.
t,ire in the Southwest.
is BELIEVED TOlBE A BIGPooL.
Tho Henry AMI Fisher. OH conpanie, to
Engage In a boundary Llns Battle.
Several Important Well. viii Iteae, the
sand this Week Development 10 tho
North Awell on the Tyler County Side
+ ofthe i,lrrr,-Oil Salts Mt st,nbpn VILE.

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The Fisher Oh company's well on the
cehrs farm in the BenyeDd (Monroe
county, territory, which was drilled In
last week, an account Of which was CIV
en- in the fntelllgencer, Is still holding up
at about 800 barrels a day. and is conced-
cd to be the best well that has been drill.
ed In. that territory 80 far. Since the
well was drilled In It has fallen Off a lit
tie In production, but not enough to
make the operators believe that the pool
Is only small one, and that II will soon
peter out, as has been the case with the
majority of the other pools that have
been drilled In In this section for the past
two years 1t Is thegeneral opinion now
that the Benwood pool Is d good one, and
that. 1t will be the largest southwestern
pool opened up for several years. All of
the wells that have been drilled In so far
are holding up In production very nicely.
There Is n great deal OF work being
done In the iBenwood pool at present and
1t is.expected that within The next thirty
days there Will be In the. nelghborhood Of
twenty-five or thirty wells started. It
Is likely there will be quite a line fight
between the Fisher and Henry OIL COM
panies. When the pool wds first hpen-
ed up, the two companies mentioned
made an agreement that neither ono
would drill within location of the lines,
but since that time one OF the companies
has located two wells right on the line,
and Is now drilling on them, This will
have the effect Of making the other COM
pany drill wells along the line In order to
protect Its interests, and the result Will
be Very Interesting. III. addition to the
number of wells stated above, which are
expected to start In very short time,
there are at present in the neighborhood
OF about twenty wells ready.to start and
drilling. The Fisher oil company has
the greater number of these wells while
the Henry Is next and individual pro-
ducers are putting up few rigs.
There are two or three wells drilling in
this development which should reach the
sand this week. One OF these wells Is the
Fisher OIL Company's No. 2 on the Price
farm, the farm on which the FIRST well
was drilled. This well has been expected
In for several days. but so far 1t has not
reached the pay. The Henry OH Conn
panys No. 3 on the HoltSclaw farm Is
also nearing the sand and should be In
the pay not later than Saturday. In ad-
several others drilling near the sand and
some of them will likely get into the pay
the early part OF next week. The next
ten days will tell whether there Is an ex-
tension OF the Benwood pool to the north
for any considerable distance.
There is very little being done in Tyler
county at present, About the only well
that 10 attracting any attention Is that
which vas recently drilled In on the Rob
ert Mayiield farm near onway, In the vi
cinity5 OF Spragg & Company's big well.
When this well was drilled in 1t devel-
oped very heavy gas pressure and act
ed pretty much as the Spragg & Co. well.
Since that time 1t has been showing n
little more oil each day and 1t Is believed
now that II will be all right rs soon as
the gas pressure has been decreased.
The Hebron development is coming to
the front with some good wells in the
Big Injun sand and the indications are
that q big pool has been opened UP there.
More OF the wells drilled in SO far have
been Of the gusher variety, but they arc
all good for from as to 100 barrels n day
and are worth drilling for at the present
price Of the aginous fluid.