Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-08-12

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Special to the Register.
Sistersville, w. Va, August 11.-W.
L. Montgomery, a cousin of Tim Pen
well, of the National Supply Com
pany, who has been working out in
the Hebron field for some time, left
to-day for Sumatra, sailing from San
Francisco in about month. Mr..
Montgomery's father is interested IN
the oil business over there and has
been in that country about four years.
In talking with him this morning, the
Register representative CLEANED the
facts that oil is found over there in
from $50 to 900 feet, and is of fine
quality. They have their own refinery
and retail their own article. The cost
of developing this article is very cheap,
as foreign labor is employed in the
work. They have thirteen wells now
producing a thousand barrels a day
each. Their first WELL put down five
years ago, is now flowing as above,
showing that the celebrated Elk Fork
pool, which is considered such a bon
ANA among the operators here, is not
a circumstance with that of the island
of sunny Sumatra across the sea. This
company have just employed six men
here. who sail at once. Mr.. Montgom-
cry says that the cost Of single fare
from this city to Sumatra is in the
neighborhood of $3.50, which is paid
- H. ,y,1r hn fViVN
about ffty-one days with a good sea.
On account of the storm to-day,
nothing can be heard from the work
going on liz the interior Of the county.
Special to the Register.
Sistersville, w. Va, August 11,-At
a meeting of the Paden Valley Oil
Company last evening in the office OF
Boyers & BToadwater, vast amount or
business was disposed of. They pass
ed resolutions asking for charter,
and a permanent set of officers was
elected, consisting of Lansing Farrell,
of Huntington, president and general
manager; A. w. Paden, secretary; j..
w. Boyers, treasurer. The executive
committee consists of Lansing Farrell,
NJ. NJ. Smith, r. A BrOadwater, j. w.
Boyers and A. w. Paden. They voted
to pat down two more wells at once.
Their first is making in the neighbor-
hood of thirty barrels and they think
they have a good showing for the
opening of a good pool. 1t is under
stood, however, that they will go fur
Their back from the river towards the
Elk Fork field.
The SHETLAND Oil Company, compos-
ed of Sistersvillians, have commenced
a rig on the Snider farm, near the
Boreman-Strauss tract, out in the Elk
Fork field, and will be ready TO COM
mence spudding by Friday.
Up to a late hour this afternoon
nothing has been heard from the Treat
& Crawford well, which is due, on the
B. T. Hawkins farm.
The Eastern Oil Company have COM
menced operations on the Fulmer farm,
to the north and east of developments
out in the Elk Fork field.
The we'll on the John Moore farm,
up Proctor creek, being drilled by Sis
tersvillians, should reach the Big In
jun some time this afternoon.
The following clipping from the
Huntington Advertiser regarding the
territory up Big Sandy will probably
be of interest to Register readers:
Twelve years ago three Pennsyivan-
ia prospectors passed through John
son county, Kentucky, into Mingo, then
Logan county, West Virginia. There
they stumbled upon the burning spring
known all over Kentucky and West
Virginia as the "Bewitched Water"
Familiar with all surface indications
for gas and oil, they Immediately leas-
ed vast tracts of land and began bor-
ing. Their work has never been COM
pleted, but to-day the oil that runs
from the old pipes sunk twelve years
ago is in use all over the adjoining
counties as a lubricator as we'll rs N
illumination. MachinistS and rivermen
on the Big Sandy ere acquainted with
its usefulness. while the country COO
tors prescribe ii for rheumatism, and
although oil and gas experts recognize
the richness of the find and reported
the Warfield TERRITORY as the most
magnificent strip of oil land on this
continent the wells have been practic-
ally unknown. due in a large measure
TO the inaccessibility of the territory.
Sixty miles across the country from
Huntington. seventy miles from Cat
lettsburg, Ky, and two hundred and
ten miles from Cincinnati, it is so en-
tireily isolated that all attempts to use
its treasure have been futile, but to-
day the outlook is more favorable.
New York capitalists have bought
out the Pennsylvania operators, and il
is confidently any ounced that before
'9S the Warfield oil will be in compe-
tition with the Standard Oil Company,
and unless plans now arranged mis-
carry all the towns along the Ohio will
be lighted by natU-al gas piped down
the Big Sandy. The supply of this
latter article seems practically mex.
haustible and in spite of the waste
that has been going on, first by means
Of the burning spring and later by
means of the well drilled years ago.
the quantity daily escaping is not in
the least diminished.
AS slight indication of the less,
which has been continuous for the past
dozen years, as soon as the present
owners assumed control of ting field 4
reward was immediately offered TO