Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-02-23

eight gas engines shipped to Woods
field and are having them hauled
into the field. They are to be used
in running the pumping wells.
TIE Fisher company's men are
having much trouble in drilling at
the Piatt we'll No. 2, on account OF
salt water. They will put in the
81 casing now in few days,
which will remedy the difficulty.
Treat & Crawford's men have
finished cleaning out the Covert
gas we'll. The we'll has been put to
pumping in order to exhaust the
oil and the gas pressure is very
much increased.
Concerning the proposed pipe
line extension the Petroleum Ga
zette of yesterday has the following
to say, which is very appropriate:
In the January number of the
Gazette this suggestion was offered:
Let no Pennsylvania producers be
lulled into false sense of security
by marking up in the Standards
price for credit balances in the near
future. They have permitted
themselves too often to be fooled
in that way, and to grow apathetic
in the right kind of work in defense
of their interests, stimulated by the
pressure of arbitrarily low prices.
The right thing to do now is to ex
pand competition to degree which
will afford competitive prices for all
the Pennsylvania oil that can be
produced, regardless of what the
Standard may do in the way of ad
vancing prices 1t is pertinent to
repeat and emphasize that sugges
ton, particularly to the producers
of the southwest fields in which
stock is being placed for the exten
sion of the independent pipe line
system to that region.
There has been a liberal taking
of the stock by the southwest pro
ducers, but while it has been less
than a month since the movement
was gotten under way, it should now
be possible to report that enough
and more than enough stock had
been subscribed in that region to
make the extension. The mere
prospect of the extension has been
profitable to producers there as else
where. Let them not be deceived
by the logic that it will now be un-
necessary to provide the competi-
ton which the extension would
represent, foolishly being caught
again by the thought that field con-
ditions are becoming such that the
Standard must come to their terms,
whether OF not there is any expan
sion Of independent competition.
Don't permit yourself to be fooled
again, Mr.. Producer of the south
west, by that old and repeatedly
used deception. 1t will be nobody's
fault but your own if you continue
to turn your business over exclu-
siyely to the Standard, measuring
your oil for you, keeping your
books for you, charging you what
it pleases for the service and paying
you what it pleases for your oil. IF
you continue to encourage that kind
Of monopoly what do you expect?
What will you deserve?
From Fridays Daily t
Brother Wakenight, the quill
pusher for Standard Oil company,
and its bogus reports, has evidently
got the wheels turning in his head
once more Since the roads have
become impossible, and the opera
tors have shut down in the Elk
Fork pool, he has been rounding it
up. While the operators here are
satisfied to let the fellow go on
rounding up their possessions the
people not familiar with the
situation are the ones who are being
imposed upon. His reports are
authority ~ always, and should al
ways be taken for granted. In his
report of yesterday he says: The
Eastern Oil company's Duval No.
I in the north east portion of the
pool, was only making twenty bar
rels per day. We no not know
where he obtained his information
IL Il. I