The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-24
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Tho Report that tiis Cehr. Farm, We'll liza.
propred 10 Eish. Harrsl. ala Hour |.
unt."a7-The Price Well Ii Increasing In .
rrohnetton- Other Operation, In tho
so"th"est--'rhe nlefsrianl We'll an
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There Is absolutely no yfath IN the
report sent out to tho effect that the
well OF the Fisher on Company on the
Cchrs farm. in the BenWSol pool, had
fallen of In production to such m ex-
tent that 1t was only making about
eight barrels an hour. Since the Benz
wood pool has been OPENED up the
Standard papers have been doing all in
their power to cry down'ithe territory
IN that section and bellttle ri as much
as possible, aud the report eminated
from the fertile imagination OF the
gentleman In Pittsburgh, 4 who writes
the oil news FOR TIN Stand ards papers.
An investigation OF the report was
made by the IntclllgencerEreporter and
It was found to BIO absolutely false.
While It Is true that the;&ell Is not
making forty barrels an hour as II did
whcn 1t came In, 1t has moi, fallen off
TO eight barrels and there Is not tho
lsast likelihood that 1t VIII! The well Is
when .it.liS expected to make almost
as much oil rs 1t did when 1t first
reached the sand. 5dS,, sil}3sS7
The Fisher OIL Company's No. Q on
the Price farm In the vicinity OF Cehrs
we'll which has been drilling In the
sand FOR Il couple Of days,lsmention of
which was made ut the time, IS In
crcasng In production and this morn
Ing 1t was reported to be making thirty
barrels an hour. This wellais located
directly south OF the Cehrs Well and Is
In the midst Of the developments in this
field. 1t was expected this well would
come, in good, but It was mot expected
TO be- such n gusher. This; well makes
the third good producer drilled in on
this farm and there Is every indication
that there Will be several more. The
Fisher company has two' More loca-
tons on the Price farm and Is building
the rigs for them and itqiss expected
that both OF them will be-drilling by
the middle Of next week - 7, &! a. 5.j,',
The latest report received from the
well drilled In a couple OF days ago on,
the Robert Mayileld FARM near the
well recently drilled in by-Spragg &.
Company, OF Wheeling. Is to the effect
that 1t Is still increasing In produc.
ton as the salt water and'gas arc be-
coming exhausted and that there Is cv-
cry reason to believe that ft'%ill make
even y better we'll than the; Spragg &
Company well. s2,6I S
The South Penn and Kanawha oil
companies arc doing a grentl deal OF
work In tho vicinity OF Pine Fork, In
WetZel county, at present-Ai few days
ego these two companies located seven
wells IN that vicinity and nowihave the
rigs about completed and will COM
'neEce drilling the early part OF the
coming weeks A-s
Shay & McMullen have made the To-
cation and are building the rig for their
No. on the limbaugh farm in the Ben
wood territory. The first htell drilled
In by this company on this farm came
in very. small, but since has been in
ercastng in production dr,tis now
making about twenty barrels day.
The new location Is a short distance 10
the east OF the first well. 90 g., AZ
The we'll being drilled by Treat &
Crawford on the Thomas Mcfarland
farm IS one OF the most important wells
drilling in the Benwood district. This
well is ahead OF developments to the
north about a mile and is being watch
ed very closely by all who have leases.
It is now drilling at about five hun
dred feet and will not reach Fthe sand
for a couple OF weeks. 3r9trs
Another important well III that field
IS the one being drilled on the Stalder
farm by Rameys 6 Company..,j This
well Is located fully mile and half to
the east OF developments and will be
the means Of defining the territory In
that direction. Within the next thirty
days the territory on the north and
cas- sides will have been tested by this
well and the one being drilled by
Crawford s: Treat and thenlif will be
known whether the pool arIounts Co.
anything or not. 81 ) ~