The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-16
WEEKLY OIL REVIEW.

So little Of Importance was developed
,o the Southwest fields during the past
week that only cursory glance over
routlne operations Is required In this
review, says ID, S. W." An analysis OF
the general situation, however. shows
more fruitful field for theoFlzIng, The
ralatiye positions OF production and
consumption, as shown by the pipe line
statement for October. published dur
ing the week, hold out a vast amount
nj announcement TO operator and pro-
Queer, A cut Of 100000 barrels into the
stocks IN one month IS no small slice
and the same ratio OF decrease has been
maintained for the first ten days OF the
present month, The claim that the out
look Is growing brighter can be sub
stantlated bV the figures and the small
nr5ducer. who has held on to his little
old wells and kept them going az little
ar no profit during the long months that
the depreciation prevailed, has brighter
prospects In view. There have been
fewer small producing wells abandoned
during the recent low market than
for any similar cause In the history OF
the business.
In the past, a one or two-barrel pro-
Queer In a white sand pool had no COM
mercal value except for the amount OF
i1nk IL contained II Is question
whether the aggregate OF these wells
that have been kept going have not
had as much To do With keeping up the
high production as the gushers In new
pools. In the past four years, there
has not been a new white sand pool dis
covered that Gould show higher pro-
duction than 10000 barrels a day, and
that only for very short time
All In all the Elk Fork pool will av-
erage up better from the time 1t was
opened than any other since the Sis
tersvlle field was at It's zenith, From a
survey OF the present operations OF the
Elk Fork pool, based upon the observa-
lions OF those thoroughly familiar VITA
the surroundings there is nothing left
but the development of the southwest
extension, after which It will take Its
place with the has beens" II Is not
question for argument; the pool has
been one OF the past four years, both
IN the size OF the wells and their stay
ing qualities. What the pool will do
when fully Defined and all the wells
put to pumping is a matter for after
consideration
Six thousand barrels n day would be
a liberal estimate OF the production OF
the POOL exclusive OF the southwest ex-
tension. 1t Is claimed, and there seems
to be good ground FOR It. that the wells
have had the lie shot out OF them and
they will, for that reason, make indlf-
terent bumpers The past week found
the first light well. e. Tuttle's No. on
the southwest extension, southeast OF
the Boreman- Strauss No. g. came in
a very small producer. and to the
northeast No. 3 Glenn, was no better.
The deep sand territory northwest OF
Warrington furnished two gushers.
while the same formation In Tyler
county supplied nothing better than
small producers or busters. However.
the deep or Gordon territory is some
thing tina, cannot be ignored In n fore
cast Of the future resources OF new
production. The probable area and the
size of some OF the wells gives It pres
tige. As 10 new pools. there are none
IN sight, either In the local or lower
Southwest territory, and II Is to he
hoped for the good OF the trade. that
the new year will be well advanced be-
fore a new one will be discovered
An operator, largely interested In the
Elk Fork pool and other portions Of
West Virginia, came up from that
country yesterday. having spent the
greater portion of the week at the Elk
Fork pool. To reporter he stated that
the older portion Of the pool was on
the decline. The gas pressure has
been exhausted at nearly all Of the old
er wells and more than one-halt Of the
wells In the pool had been put to
pumping There Is an abundant water
supply since the late rains and three
gas companies have lines running into
the pool, furnishing plenty OF fuel. The
only show for any new production. he
thought, was in the southwest extern
sion. but the producing wells In that
portion of the pool had cut their pro-
ductIon almost a half In the past two
weeks. The No 3 well on the futile
farm coming In small. as now indica-
ted. was no small disappointment, as It
negatived the theory that cross belt
connected the Bis wells on the Eddy,
Hill and futile farms with the gushers
on the Pipes farm TO the east. Had 1t
not been for the discovery of the
southwest extension, operations. he
said, In the Elk Fork pool would have
been practically at an end by the close