Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-15
OIL NEWS.

SISTERSVILLE. W. Va, August IA
The fields OF this State are row furnish
ing the greater bulk of the oil that is
being bToagh; to the earth's surface at
the presen: time ana EN- Fork. the field
situate about eight miles from this city.
is leading in the number of barrels of
such production. having a gagged produc-
ton of 1856 barrels a day. larger than
all of the southwest fields put together.
all of which resulted from a good stock
of nerve which the parties drilling the
first wildcat well in this territory had.
This now duly celebrated field is situated
eight miles from this city and about as
many from any production when the
Hayseed Oil Company, comprised Of Sis
tersvillians put down a test we'll which
when drilled in commenced flowing at
the rate OF 60 barrels an hour
When the news of the rich strike was
heralded around town the people Almost
went wild with excitement. and for days
thereafter a team could not be gotten for
love nor money, all of them being in use
by their respective owners on the hunt
for territory near this big gusher. InIne-
diately work commenced in a vigorous
manner, those who were lucky enough to
secure leases adjoining the farm on which
this well was situated worked two crews
of men and started wells by the half
dozen. Chopping down trees and making
roads consumed only several days and
nights and then it was nip and tuck TO
see who would be the first to get well.
Soon they commenced coming in thick
and fast and all of them were about the
same size as the first, and news Of this
great strike was heralded all over the
country, and operators fiocked to this
city for several days on the hunt for a
piece of territory near this field. AS a
consequence 1t became known all over
the country that a bonanza better than
the Klondike gold fields offered was right
here in the midst of civilization and could
be gotten out with a little nerve. Since
its discovery it grew and grew until
now it is the largest single producing
field in the United States. The output
now of 1885 barrels a day is produced
from 80 wells as follows. Only the wells
doing better than 100 barrels a day are
enumerated in this list:
Pipes No. l. 700 barrels; 30. 3. 100 bar
rels; D. Snyder No. l. $40 barrels; j.
Williams No. l, 100 barrels; No. 2, GOO;
Farrell Nos. and O. Treat and Crawford
owners, 100 and 125; Asher No. 2, 16O
barrels; No. g. $50 barrels; No. 5, 15O bar
rels; j. T. A Hawkins Nos. l, 2 and 3.
100, 200 and 100 barrels respectively; B.
F. Hawkins Nos. 2, 4, 5, 6, I, s, and 9,
Treat Crawford and Boyd Bros. owners,
1880 collectively; B. F. Hawkins No. 3,
G. f. Foster, owners, 80 barrels; No. 4,
$50 barrels; B. F. Hawkins No. /. Hen
derson & Co., owners, 100 barrels; B. Tut
tie No. 2, $50 barrels; S. A. Keller Nos.
l and 2. go and 120 barrels; Pipes, heirs
No. 2, $40 barrels; d. Snyder No. l, 300;
Sneider heirs No. l. 720 barrels; Pipes
heirs No. /. ESQ barrels; G. E. Fosters
No. 5, B. F. Hawkins 600 barrels, max
ing a total of 1885 barrels pen day for a
field a little over five months old and
wnicl is yet growing daily. Several wells
are due out there, but up TO this time
nothing can be heard from them.
The wells drilled in during the week are
Williams No. ?, Henry Oil Company,
Sneider heirs No. l. G. E. Fosters No ..
No. 2, and D. Snyder No. l, making to-
tai increase Of 5000 barrels a day.
The price of the crude article has re-
manned at the same notch throughout
the week, and if the accumulation OF
100000 barrels of oil for July, as reported
by the Standard, keeps up there is no
doubt but what it will 90 still lower.
Notwithstanding this fact the fields of
this State offer better inducements than
any other State in the union and the
operators of Pennsylvania and othor
petroleum producing States are becoming
cognizant of this fact and are heading
this way, and the consequence will be 4
mighty increase in production, for we
still stick to the opinion of plenty Of it
yet under the surface that but needs
nerve to procure.