Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-24
OIL NEWS.
New Wells and Locations-Notes About
the Producing Wells.

the Producing Wells.
Special to the Register.
Ellenboro, W. Va, January 23.-The
we'll being drilled by Mallory Brothers
on the William Abicht farm, on Bonds
creek. four miles northwest of this
place, which was expected in yester-
day, will be delayed, as the drilling
stem was cracked yesterday morning.
Cain, Lambert & Co. have succeeded
in drilling out the baler lost in their
venture on L. Hayhurst's farm, on
Husher's run, and began drilling again
yesterday. This hole is $50 feet deep.
Naughton & Company's we'll on the
Joseph Lambert land, about three
miles from here, on the road to Har-
risville, is about through the oil pro-
ducing sand, and it is thought the well
will be buster.
A well is being drilled on the Hane's
land, adjoining the big Collins tract,
and will be valuable test for an ex-
tensive block of territory.
A well drilling outfit has been en-
gagged in putting down a test we'll on
Leatherbark run, in this county, for
the Carter Oil Company, but the work
has been abandoned, the machinery
being too light for the work
The phenomenal strike made by F.
E. Metzgar & Co. on Tarleton Han
Ions farm, on Brushy Fork run. which
was drilled into the pay early last
week, still continues to Le a topic of
conversation in oildom. The we'll is
in the Cow Run shallow sand, and is
nf triI IN
long time from that formation. 1t
flows regularly every five minutes,
which is unusual for Cow Run pro-
ducers, and is now making about IT'S
barrels per day. There is great
scramble for territory and royalty in
terests in the vicinity of the well and
high prices are being offered for leases.
but the land owners, with a Yankees
eye to business, are profiting by their
knowledge Of the experience of their
Plum run neighbors, and are holding
for fancy figures.
The big gusher is located only 40
feet south OF No. l on the same farm,
which showed but ten feet of sand,
while No. 2 on the farm showed 25
feet, this being the third venture.
Brushy Fork is located south of
Plum run, and about ten miles from
this place, and might be called an ex-
tension of the Plum run field.
Steve Marcum's we'll on the Fred
Garrison eight-acre tract, up Bear run,
and near CORVALLIS, is a good pro-
Queer, and will stimulate operations in
an extension of territory heretofore
considered poor territory.
The No. 7 on the George Wells farm
at CORVALLIS, and owned by the Carr
Oil Company, is now the best producer
in the field. The rig has been torn
down and removed from the location
on the Catholic Church lot.
A. C. Rollins has enjoined the Uni
ted States Oil Company from complet-
ing well on his 56-acre farm, near
Corvallis claiming the rig is too
near his buildings.
The Ellenboro Oil Company is clean
ing out and fixing W their abandoned
well on the Rollins town lot and will
pump it.
Murphy & Grace are preparing to
drill two more wells on Plum Run, in
Murphy district, this county, one on
the Glover farm, the other on d. M.
Miller's land.
The Carter Oil Company has COM
pleted their we'll on the +. NJ Kildow
land, in Union district, it being dus-
ter through the Gordon sand.
Operators still profess to have great
faith in the Whisky Run territory,
and there is promise of considerable
new work when spring opens. Barns
dali & Reynolds will drill at once on
the Lamp lease, and Calhoun & Co.
expect to start well on Jane Smiths
farm shortly. The result of the Albeit
well, now drilling, will have an i'm
portant influence on work in this field.
The Central West Virginia Oh Com
pany's wildcat venture near Toll