Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-03-09
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ting a black eye on the property in the
neighborhood. The Hayseed Oil Company,
/ as soon as they finish this well, will COM
mence Immediately the sinking Of several
! wells in close proximity, and expect 10
! make a fortune out of it. They have p!ac-
ed tankage on the ground to accommodate
500 barrels. Some of the persons interest
! ed in this property have been dabbling in
ventures Of this kind for years and have
| been losers up to this time, and now that
! they have production they intend to hold
to it and regain their dollars lost in years
before, and it is the wish of the Register
| that they will be successful.
! The Register correspondent returned
I yesterday from a trip down the river and
! observed the damage done by the high
! water to the wells down about Belmont
and Eureka. The water in many places is
several feet deep over many wells which
! have been pumping. and of course while
the water remains so high they are COM
PEELED to stop work on them. Many places
! it was noticed that several buildings and
derricks were floating. which will cost con-
siderable money to get in place again.
The outlook for the coming springs
work is very encouraging, and many per-
sons from Pennsylvania who have not yet
ventured here are in the city and are
endeavoring to buy some territory for the
| purpose of developing. and some Of them
| have been more than successful: conse-
quently these parties along with the
present operators. have mapped out an
unlimited amount of work. and when
spring opens out again this city viii take
on her old and wonderful ways. In talk
ing to Messrs. Kohl & Cowel the new
stock brokers. it was learned that they
have been doubly successful and have dis
! posed Of some bright and promising terri
| tory. They yesterday sold 10 c. r. Kerr
the photographer. the one-siXteenth inter-
/ est in the ODonnell property out at Heb
ron. on which is five producing wells. Mr..
J. A. Childers was the party conveying.
| Consideration private. This firm also sold
/ yesterday two leases near the gusher out
/ in the Wick pool to some Pittsburg parties
/ for a good round sum. These gentlemen
are arranging TO put down several wells
| out there as soon as the timber can be
/ placed Oh the ground.
( The work is being carried on steadily
! out in the Hebron field. with nothing to re-
| port except that the wells are stiu hold
| ing up splendidly. and that several new
! wells have been located recently near the
| Wilson and Clutter farms, il the Plum
| Run territory.
over in the Benwood pool. the Henry oil
/ Company have succeeded i'm getting the
/ dril in their Holtsclaw twelve feet in the
| sand, and It has increased its production
from 10 barrels an hour to Is. Their
Brown well No. T. in the Dye district, is
making eight barrels an hour.
The Fisher oil Company should reach
/ the pay at their Schaumbaugh this after
noon or tonight Their Barber well is now
/ 700 feet deep and progressing finely. They
| have the Sia casing in their Hummel we'll
| Their Martin well has been put to pump
! ms. and viii probably make i'm the neigh
/ borhood Of q five or ten Darrell we'll The
most important well now drilled over there
is the Schaumbaueh well. TO the east Of
/ present deve opmerts The Twitchey and
Martin wells shut off any further devel-
| ment to the northeast. and it is the
| opirion Of the talent that there is a pos
| sbility of an extension TO the west similar
TO that of the Dye and Freden districts to
! the east.
| Mellon Galley who Is drilling on the Co
vert farm is now down 400 feet and work
| goes steadily on. This well Is being watch
! ed with considerable interest. as il lies
| i'm close proximity to the Cehrs and Holts-
| claw wells which were drilled I'm during
! the latter part of last week The work
mapped out i'm this field for the spring is
/ vohminous and will crca,e quite "a stir
when things get to moving i'm good shape.
It is now about two years since the
! phenomenal advance in oil. occasiOned
| by what was thought to be the ex-
! tinction of the stocks At that time
oil men feared that territory was
reaching its limit The notion spread
as the stock fell. and in March such a
panic took possession of the market as
even the oldest operators had never
seen, and which as subsequent eX-
| perienCes have shown. was wholly
groundless. In a few days the price Of
| crude from the edge of the dollar
mark, bounded upward until the price
had touched $3.50. figure never
! dreamed of by anybody Almost as
/ quickly as it went up the figures were
shaded off, the market holding above
the dollar mark until just before the
holidays, or nearly TWO years. Ameri-
| can oil fields are in no danger of eX-
| hausticn, more wells having been
drilled since the opening of 1895 than
in the best three years previously and
yearly as many as in the five years
just preceding.
The experience of these two phenom-
email years in the oil field has developed
two things beyond doubt That the
American oil regions are not in danger
of exhaustion. and American fields are
not likely to depend on the big and en-
during pools that begin with Pithole,
and reached the climax in the great
black sand slayer at Bradford Since
1895. the drill has been uncommonly
busy. The number Of new wells each
year has exceeded 1000, the total for
the two years being almost $4,000. In
new territory the scout and wildcatter
have prosecuted their work, and in
fields already run over the drill has
been made to do duty.
Special to the Register.
Ellenboro. w. Va, March S.-The
! Rock Oil Company's well on the Nc
Kinney farm. reached the top Of the
Cow run sand on Saturday, but lost a
ho1o,. bafore the sand could be drilled