Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-07-13
Bradford, Pa, July 7, 1898.

NCSOAN Va HAJ o.,
an article copied from the Review,
entitled Where is the Next Oil
Field?" In reply ! will give you an
account of work I have done in
Kentucky. In September, IL went
there to Otter creek, Wayne county,
TO remove a string of casing from
an old we'll at Slickford. l found
an old we'll, drilled-in 1855, known
as the Huffaker we'll. This well
was drilled there for salt and
proved success, but was abolished
as a salt plant, because 1t was
ruined for that purpose by oil, The
oil begun to come gradually and IN
creased to fifty barrels day. l
found two old tanks there with two
or three feet of oil in them and
grades for three tanks which had
been destroyed. l was interested
IN what I saw there and was con-
WINGED that it was an oil field. l
leased four farms there and l came
back to Bradford and went back
there in four days to lease more. l
then went there under contract for
rba Ken;;oky National Oil & Gas
Company, limited, u New YORK
and in November, 1891 drilled what
is known as the Hovey we'll, for
them. Struck it Thanksgiving
day, 'o1. This we'll was more than
one half mile up stream from the
old we'll. l had one $50 barrel
tank. tubed the we'll and 1t
filed the tank between s a. m.
and ~ m. This we'll was
shut down for over three
months, when We got ten ESQ bar
rel tanks aud began pumping the
well. It was shut down Al. 10th
o., with the tanks ali full, and i
has flowed nearly all the time
While we were waiting for tanks
and in my judgement due up to
that time between four and five
Thousand barrels of oil, the oil is
of a dark green and as sweet oil as
is procured in Pennsylvania. In
'o2 drilled a we'll on the Joseph
Derhman farm, below the Harvey
we'll, and got small well, and one
above it, on the John M. Gordney
farm, and we got ten barrel well.
In January, '95. 1 went back there
with D. Wright & Co., they hav-
ing bought a four fifth interest in
the two last farms and wells,
and leased the Miller Bros. farm of
800 acres, 7 miles northeast of
Otter creek, on Beaver creek, and
drilled No. I we'll $50 feet deep
and got a ten bbl we'll, and No. 2
SIS feet deep and got so barrel
well. We bailed this we'll 9 DAYS
and got so barrels a day, and
N ensured it in a refined oil barrel
that held 54 gallons. We filled
this barrel 4S5 times in the 9 days,
and plugged the we'll. This we'll
has one string of casing 81 feet
long. then drilled a we'll on the
Campbell farm and got dry hole
two miles north of the Miller wells,
but a gasser, and one on the Bur-
nett farm, and will make a
ten-barrel we'll, I believe, when
shot. The sand was fine and close.
/ then came north and drilled one
on the Delk farm which will make
a paying producer. l got 81 feet
of sand. This we'll was d-illed in
February, 1896. We then moved
over two miles north on to the
Baker farm aud got a we'll in the
gas sand, the production of which |
we estimated to be 80 barrels day. |
From there we went to the Duncan
farm and got 20 feet of nice sand.
This we'll is between three and four
hundred feet deep, and is filled up
to within 125 feet Of the top of the
well.
In February, 1897, we drilled one
on the Sandusky farm, 43o feet
deep, through 20 feet of nice sand.
There is 800 feet of oil in it, and
bai1ing out IS barrels did not lower
it any. This we'll was drilled to the
top of the shale which is forty feet
thick and lays level. The top OF
the shale is so feet below the bot
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