Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-17

in the} and to-day and they are being
watche very closely. Some OF the oper-
ators 10 have leases in that section
are holding back their work until these
wells come in. Treat & Crawford are
pushing the work on their Farrell &
Williams leases along as rapidly as pos
sble. They have three wells drilling nice
ly on the two farms and the fourth one
has a bad fishing job on hand and the in
dications are that 1t will have to be aban-
doned, the rig moved and a new hole
started. Had it not been for this unfor-
tunate circumstance this well would have
been in by this time.
The Argus Oil Co. has couple of wells
due on their Snyder lease at Elk Fork.
but they are in defined limits and not of
any Importance aside from the amount
of their production.
correspondent writing from Peasants
county says:
Mallory Bros. and drilling on the Brown
lease on Long Run, and should get the
first sand Sunday. They will also begin
drilling a well on the C. C. Schanwecker
tract near the mouth of the run in a few
days. The same firm has a lease on the
Mrs. NJ. E. Bachman tract, and a well
W lJdD
Mclaughlin has begun drilling on the
Hall Sunderman lease, a short distance
from the Mallory Bros. location on the
Brown. Frauchott Bros are still waiting
for water to begin drilling on the Dotson
lease. Cunningham & Co. are still drill
ing on the t. j. Taylor lease, and should
get the sand to-day. Graft & Ellis are
drilling on the Lille Hester lease on
French creek, and are having consider
able trouble in getting water to drill
with. Campbell & Learn are drilling
right along in their well on the Rebecca
Reed lease, and should be in the first of
the week.
Eaton IL Timms have begun drilling on
the Hardy farm on the left fork of French
creek. All the land below the mouth of
Turkey run has been leased, and a num-
Der of wells will go down in that vicinity
soon. There has also been considerable
leasing done on the right fork of French
creek.
Barnsdall & Co. should get the sand In
their K. A. Gorrell we'll on Sugar creek
the last of this week. Wharton is ex-
pectlng to get the shallow sand in his Asa
Wagner well on Sugar creek the last of
this week.
Bollard &c Bowles are down between 200
ana 400 feet with their No l on the Whit
ten Stewart lease, and should be in the
first of the week
A great deal of work has been shut
down IN Peasants county on account of
the drought, and unless there is a heavy
ram very shortly more of the operat tors
VIII be compelled to quit The same state
or affairs exists in nearly all the fields
at present and just now a good heavy rain
OF about days duration would be mora
acceptable than a 2-cent rise in the price
of OIL
having gotten started down the tobog-
gan II is hard for the market to recover
ltse1, and yesterday there was another
oecine OF one cent. Following are the
quotations at the purchasing agencies YES
terday; Tiona, II; Pennsylvania g..
GAINESVILLE, 81: Corning, 50; North Lima
%; South Lima, Al; Indiana Il Nov, thot
the market has gotten started downward
again there is no telling where it will sion
New York, October 16.-Pennsvl-
vanla crude, no market; nominally at
S5c. "'
Oil City, Pa, October 16.-Credit bal
ances &c: certificates closed at SIC.
and runs not reported.