Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-04-11

/ for an that is out and have many lOca-
ti0ns made and rigs are going up as
/ rapidly as possible. Their No. 3 is
/ making - barrels per day.
The Parks 40 ]. which caused all the
I excitement about Rutherford, is still
making 100 barrels daily, and excite
meut is intense. Every available team
+ is iu use. and all that retarGS operations
is the inability 10 secure rig timbers as
/ rapidly as they are needed. The roads
are il q horrible condition, and the mud
/ almost covers jhe horses.
The Simmons Nos. ! and furnish
( fuel for the field The field proper lies
on both sides Of a great hill running
east and west. the land being owned by
, Aaron Simmons. s. 4. Parks and the
I Ritchie Lumber Company.
As an example Of how quickly a rig
7 can be erected. rig builder Trainer com
/ menced a rig on Monday morning and
! Spudding began on Wednesday evening
The Marshal Oil Company are build
ing q rig on the Moss farm. three
fourths OF a mile from Parks No. I.
Hugh Mearns is drilling a well 10 the
/ Gordon sand out near Macfarlan for the
feet deep with 500 Of wire cable in the
hole. which viii delay work until the
cable is ished ont.
Fred Rich viii drill another we'll on
the Layfeld farm, and is now putting
up the rig.
A. Cairo the Jewett Oil Company will
. drill their well on the Allen lot few
feet dceDor
The E. E. Wilson No. 3. which was
f shot last Saturday, has been cleaned out
ana started TO pumping
Apple q EIya. who struck IN eight
hundred pound rock pressure gasser on
the Narcisse Douglass land near No. is
tunnel will likely pipe the gas 20 Corn
wallis where &c viii be used for fuel.
The Fisher oil ComDaay's well on
Gubert's three-acre lot at CORVALLIS.
which is q short distance southwest Of
the No. 1 NaughtOn. was drilled into
the sand Yesterday and is not showing
mp We'll bur may respond better when
shot Should this well not be a good
producer 70 win give the western edge
of the CORVALLIS field a serious set
back
f Lodging room is AZ a premium at
CORVALLIS. and in some places people
s,eep four i1 a bed, and glad TO get the
chance The speakeasy man has also
reached the town and is doing Hour
ishiDg business.
smith & Padens venture at No. 70
tunnel will 10 closely watched. as il
viii ties. much territory east Of the pro
ducing belt.
The Rock Oil Compary's Mckinney
we'll is POO feet deep and drilling is
going on to-day.
The Garter Oil Company has erected
q large barn at PennsbOrO capable or
] holding thirty horses and teamsterS.
The exact location Of the Harrison
Cunningham well is announced. IL Is
on the north side of the northwestern
turnpike. @ few feet east Of the Cum
bingham residence.
Special 20 the REGISTER
Elizabeth. W Va. April 10.-John +.
bravo. of Pittsburg. has leased the
farms of Robert Perrin and John w.
Tovther. near Freep)rt. this county,
and viii ut once drill in test well on the
lease.
The Bridgewater Oil and Gas Com
ranv got another good we'll on their
Ei5wcII lease yesterday on Deerer S
Fork of STANDING Stone.
s5ccisl To- th, Il. sister.
Sisfersvills. W. Va, April l0.-The
week I'm OH circles has been unusually
active and exciting. especially TO the
people of this city, who are Interested
i'm he Elk Fork field. which has de
,sloped wonderful proportions since OIL
y.as FIRST discovered there. Nearly all
the people interested either permanent
~ reside in Sistersville or make this
pl-cs their headquarters. The MAJOR
itv of them. however. are SlSte VIE
business men and old citizens.
Since the drilling in OF the LYMAN
Woods we'll by the Elk Fork OH ana
Cos Company it has been The topic OF
mo town as 10 the manner in which II
has operated. Il came ia sOOd for ten
barrels IN hour from the top OF the
sand and increased rapidly owing 10
The strOns. gas pressure. Which enabled
r. TO drill itself I'm as the hours flew
NV until il had increased lis produc-
zion 70 T29 barrels "a day. One 0ay
durine the earlier Usrt of the week
r. feV tO $50 barrels day. which
cave the owner a chance 80 asitate it
With the bit. which they did, and ever
since il has made 50 barrels an hour.
When this we'll was reported q gusher