Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-22
OIL N EWS.
New Wells and observation-disclosures About
the Producing Wells.

| New Wells and observation-disclosures About
| the Producing Wells.
| Special to the Register.
Ellenboro, w. Va, October 21.-The
Garter Oil Company is starting another
well on the G. G. Griffith farm, near
Holbrook, located 1000 feet west IF
the dry hole ON the William Adams
| farm.
1t is said Col. Ira Dewitt and his
| associates will drill another we'll on
the Thomas E. Davis farm, near the
trestle on the Pennsboro & Harrisville
| railroad.
The Associated Producers venture
! on the Christian Heinselman farm,
| On Dog Comfort run, is now drilling in
| the Big Injun sand, and while the well
is showing small quantity of a rich
dark green oil, the prospects Of the
well being good producer are far from
fiattering. However, what deeper
drilling will develop is not yet known.
Hon. Joseph A. Kennedy, of Sisters
| vile, is here ibis week watching de-
velopments in the Heinsalman well,
and should the well be a buster Mr..
Kennedy will probably relocate well
en- the G.. w. Miller farm and move
| the rig timbers from the present loca
| ton. Kennedy, Lawrence & Griffith
| have four nice producers on Broad
run.
F. W. Minshell & Son, the well
known firm of Marietta civil engineers,
| are just now engaged in taking series
OF experimental levels of coal and
other geological deposits in this sec
ton of the county.
Charles G. Davis, the damage adj
| juster for the Eureka Pipe Line Com
pany, is in this section this week set
Ting claims with the farmers.
The continued advance in the
! price of credit balances is having its
effect in this locality, and wild caters
are again anxiously taking up any I'M
leased farms. Yesterday a representa-
tive of that king of the independent
operators, T. n Barnsdall, was here
and succeeded in leasing two or three
small farms southwest from the pres
ent Whisky Run production.
There is a fine block of territory
near Ellenboro extending a mile north
and south of town that looks like
likely territory that could be leased
on reasonable terms by operators that
mean business. The block includes
the following farms: M. M. Lambert,
345 acres: r. J. Dawson, $50 acres;
Boehin & Stricken, rs acres; George
T. Walters, 100 acres; J. l. Vincent, sc
acres; S. E. Satterfield, so acres; NJ.
Moran, so acres; Ball e Jones, so
acres, and there is probably enough
more land Unbiased to make a block
of 1900 acres of territory, that might
be very rich.
The Carr Bros. Oil Company, who
own about all the production about
CORVALLIS, are doing little new work
now but are reaping the harvest from
their investments. Their production
is about $3.50 barrels per month
With oil at $11S and a very light oper-
ating expense, it will be seen what a
nice thing these enterprising brothers
are making.
VIM. Langdon is engaged in fishing
! for the tools lost in the Associated
| Producers No. l on the Sanford Bum
gardner farm on Whisky run; these
! tools were lost when the explosion
took place at the Trautman boarding
| house in July, which burned down the
rig.
The No. on the Nicholas Brooks
farm is now troubled with a bad
case in the red mud at a depth of
about 900 feet.
The Associated Producers No. on
! the Sanford Bumgardner farm is 500
feet deep.
Workmen have completed stringing
J the pipe from Pennsboro to the gas
! well On the Hayhurst farm. on Hush
er's run. and the connections are be-
| ing made at Pennsboro
Assistant Superintendent Johnson
now has charge of the South Penn Oil
Company's operating interests in this