Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-03-28
Special to the Register.

Special 10 the Register.
SISTERSVILLE. w Va, March a.
The only sensational happening was the
advance of credit balance from Gle TO 9lc
during the week. and the talent are en-
Enthusiastically taking of it reaching the
dollar mark Taking this into account.
along with the new field lately found
about eight miles back Of this city, there
is enough TO stimulate operations about
100 per cent. More work has been map
ped out. and commenced. in this field
than was ever known before.
All the oil well supply houses here and
elsewhere are lying in materials used for
the development Of crude material, and
anticipate a big business The price Of
credit balances has great hearing or the
development of territory. and as it shows
a tendency to advance TO and above the
dollar mark. the operators show no hest
fancy in going ahead with their work.
The only strikes during the week Of any
note was the well drilled IN by the Carter
Oil Company on the J. d. Livingston farm
and known as their No. II, drilled in the
middle of the week, and gagged as making
125 barrels. 1t IS located in the advance
development of the Plum Run field. This
company is undoubtedly the largest firm
doing work in this and adjacent dis
tricts and has large number of wells
drilling all over the county, as well as in
some of the adjoining counties.
The Treat, Crawford & Worth Oil Com
pany are down about 2S5 feet with their
Clutter No. 3, out in the Plum Run pool,
and if no bad luck attends them they will
reach the pay in about thirty days. This
well is located up In the corner of their
farm. near the well of Rameys on the
Wilson farm, and if it comes in good will
aid the lessees of the farms in advance Of
their tract 1t looks like very goor stuff
further ahead, as a straight line drawn
from the Hebron pool 10 the Wick pool
indicates the possibility of oil being found
here.
In the Elk Fork territory the work goes
rapidly onward, despite the litigation that
has been apprehended. Nichols d Huling
have started two wells, L. y. Brenneman
two. the Elk Fork Oil and Gas Company
three. Bruner &, Stewart one. and Queen,
Rauch & Co. two, making twelve wells in
al. and several news locations made, and
the materials being placed on the ground.
Murphy. Jennings & Co. have been en-
deavoring to place timber on the Lyman
Woods farm, on which farm the Elk Fork
Oil and Gas Company struck their gusher.
but these gentlemen are up to snuff and
being in possession are going to, and are,
keeping possession, not hesitating to use
force. When the gentleman whom Muir
ply, Jennings & Co. sent out there to pay
the arrearages of rent. due for the past
eight years, called on the farm owners,
he was turned away with frown, show
ing that the farmers are onto their bus
mess and that their sympathies lay in the
direction of the men who freely spent
their money to develop their property.
The Wetzel Democrat lays all the blame
to the changing OF the name of this con-
Germ from the Hayseed Oil Company to
the present one. There has been consid-
cradle disputes as to the origin of the
name and it is hard to say where it
started. although the Register was the
first newspaper to use that name in print.
The work In Ohio continues nicely and
lots OF work is being done. The Fisher
Oil Company's Barber we'll has been com
pleted and is making in the noighborhood
Of l23 barrels. This well, when the pay
was reached. commenced flowing consid
cradle gas. which caused some delay in
finishing it. Their Hunnell wen still holds
UP at its original figures, and the Scham-
baugh retaliates with an excellent pro-
duction of 500 barrels
NEW YORK. March 21.-Pennsylvania
crude steady: April 2f2c bid No sales.