Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-07-26

depends on it. Following is list OF
some of the most important work now
being done in the Elk Fork pool: The
South Penn Oil Company have two To-
cations and the rigs building for wells
on the Foreman & Strous; the same
company has location and are build
ing the rig for their No. 1 on the
Thomas; Crawford & Treat No. Far
rell will be due in the sand the first
of the week; the rigs are up for their
Nos. 4 and 8 on the Farrell; the Phil
adelphia Oil and Gas Company have
located their No. l B. Engle and will
commence spudding the early part OF
the week; the Magnolia Oil Company
No. 8 is due the first Of the week; their
No. 2 will be shot tomorrow, as the
production has declined to less than lOO
barrels a day; no. started spuddlng
to-day. There are a number of other
wells drilling and starting out there,
but the ones mentioned are the most
important ones. There is at this times
about 50 strings Of tools running in the
Elk Fork field
The low price of crude oil is having
a great deal to do with the small amount
of work being done in this section OF
the southwest at present and some or
the companies operating here have shut
down we'll drilling and abandoned loca-
tions made on this account. The Fish
err Oil Company, which is the principal
operator in the Benwood field, will be
shut down all drilling in that section
as soon as the wells drilling now have
OH a
son the low price now being paid TOT
the oleagenious fluid.
Ellenboro, VIVA, July 25.-The con-
tinued decline in the price Of oil has
caused operators to. lessen their efforts
somewhat in the defined fields in Rit-
chic county, but validating seems to
go on without the least cessation on all
sides.
The South Penn Oil Company's i'm
portant test we'll on the Collins land,
near Mole Hill, is LOO feet deep, and
will be completed with all possible
speed.
Mccormick & Cain have begun spud-
ding in their venture on L. p. WILSON'S
farm, along the line of the Pennsboro
and Harrisville Railroad.
The we'll on Harrison Cunningham's
farm. located three miles east Of this
place. was completed through the Big
Injun sand some time ago, and was
dry in that formation, but the owners
now propose to drill it to the Gordon
sand. which will be valuable test for
this section of country.
]. A. Calhoun has the lumber on the
ground preparatory to building rig
on Mrs. McDougal's farm, on Hughes
river, near Goose Neck postoffice.
The owners of the lease on the Abra-
ham Lucas farm are not satisfied with
the test they have just finished on that
farm, and will drill another we'll on the
same tract Of land as soon as necessary
arrangements can be made.
The irresponsible lease scalper and
liar is a curse to both the farmer and
the legitimate operator, and farmers
should be careful how and to whom
they lease their land. Beware OF the
fellow who promises to do almost ev-
erything he is generally unreliable and
cannot be forced to fulfill any contract.
The Register has warned its readers Of
this class of sharks before, and IN at
least one case saved an honest farmer
goodly sum of money and a deal or
trouble.
Since shooting the we'll on the Tip
Wells farm at CORVALLIS, the produc-
ton has been about sixty barrels daily,
and as the Register predicted last
week, .gvAk wttle to forty or fifty bar
rels per day. The owners of the rank
buster on the Ed Wells land, adjoin-
ing. are now hopeful of getting some
oil by putting shot in their hole,
which will be done this week.
The CORVALLIS pool is hard one
for the talent to locate, and since the
buster came in on the Ed, Wells there
is slight encouragement 10 continue
operations southwest, which was
thought to be the direction of the pool.
The Waterbury and Marshall wells
gave the territory on the northeast a
black eve. and it now looks as If the
pool was simply lake that was al
ready surrounded.
The Fisher Oil Company will make
another test on Sigler & Gilberts
Waterbury farm.
Cox & woodward got a good pro-
Queer on the Roberts farm, just south
OIL COrlWdlllS. his loHu 10 (WHICH W
Rev. L. w. Roberts, Of Wheeling.
w. E. Reynolds, of Oil City, Pa, has
been appointed district lease superin-
tendent of the South Penn Oil Compa-
ny for Richie and Writ counties. and
Col Sam Miller has been transferred
TO Parkersburg, where he will look af-
ter the company's interest in Wood
and Peasants counties.
Bettman. Watson & Berrheimer are
drilling en- important test well at Eas-
tons tunnel, and will also soon make
some tests in Doddridge county.
The we'll on Railroad Fork, near Ru-
therford, will be due in Tuesday, and
drilling is in progress on the L. Lemon
and Jesse Braden farms, near Richie
mines.
The A. S. Simmons No. has been
drilled through beth the salt and Big
Injun sand formations. and is dry.