Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-09-07
OIL NEWS.
n Wednesdays Daily.

presented no exciting features in
! field developments. The market,
too, remains stationary at the dol
lar mark with certificate oil slightly
below the credit balances. The
drill is busy but have not as yet ar
rived at a certain depth in wells
that are important, to attract any
great attention. The we'll on the
Pollock farm at Paden's Valley was
completed yesterday and is a very
small producer, not larger than 4
or 5 barrel pumper. This was not
"a disappointment to those who
drilled, as their expectations were
A,ided by past operations. The
4 Glendenning we'll in the northeast
extension of the Elk Fork pool is a
good producer. 1t will make at
least a IS barrel pumper. In the
first IA hours it made Is barrels.
In that same locality in addition
to the work starting that was men
toned yesterday, Nichols & Barns
dali are drilling their No 7 7. G..
Hawkins and No. 9 Wood. Bros;
Yoke & Co. are spudding at their
No. G. c. Fluharty and have the
arrangements completed for start
ing on the Bowser, Morrow and
Mercer farms.
Back of Friendly developments
are assuming an interesting air.
There are at the present time a
dozen wells drilling and rigs build
ing. The most important of these
are, Nichols & Barnsdall on the
John Former; Holden & Barnsdall
on the Martin and Henry Former;
Medley & Co. on the Henry Thorn
and Martin farms. In addition to
these other wells are drilling at va
rious depths.
A. Mr.. Beck, of Wheeling, has
taken up block of land in MUSES.
Bottom, Jackson county, w. Va. ,
and has agreed to drill test well in
that part of our state.
News from Elk Run is scarce.
There is no we'll drilling near the
20. sand, and when this is the case, op-
erations are of very little moment.
The latter part of next week should
see some two or three wells COM
pleted.
The test we'll on the John Wood
burn farm near Middlebourne is
going down slowly. Fishing jobs
and other mishaps have occurred
which will delay its completion IN.
til near the middle of the coming
month.
D. S. W., the Standard Oil com
pany's oil reporter says that Capt,
Jones we'll on the Marshal, about
3 miles south of this city, is ere
markable" we'll, and that it is now
ten days old and is producing 40
barrels of oil day. We are glad
our friend has heard of this the
biggest and best strike made in the
State since the big Whiskey Run
we'll was drilled in. Still it was
Monday last our friend reported a
small we'll in Wood county, as be-
ing the most important well that
was drilled in during the past
week. We are glad to know how
ever, that we have remarkable"
well, even If we rave no big IS bar
rel gusher drilled in at a cost of
$1,000. We are doing fairly we'll
even if our preiudiced friend won't
report the facts as they are. We
presume in a day or two our be-
nighted friend will begin to
Ground up" the Marshall we'll. By
the by our friend had better round
up the old Elk Fork field again as
the new wells are gradually and
surely opening up great deal of
new territory out that way and an
other round up is now in order.
What our friend don't know about
Tyler county as an oil field would
make q verv larpe and extremely