Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-09-28

| in this territory very gratifying
Treat 81 Crawford have started two
wells on the Wetzel, the Harvey
Cutler Oil company have started
their No. on the Glendnening,
Henry & Macdonald have made the
locations and will start the rigs at
once for their three new wells to be
drilled as soon as the rigs can be
completed. Other operators are
making preparations to test new
territory in that section at once.
That the Wilson Run pool over
in Ohio will amount to something
yet seems to be the concensus OF
opinion among the oil men. This
stuff has been turned down, rounded
up, and given the laugh generally
for more than year, but at that it
has been Flooding along and pro-
duclng some nice wells. Gordon
& Coz were coasidered' away of
when they started to drill on the
bPoulton and some leases over here,
as it was said to be a certainty that
nothing but dry holes would be the
result In this they were mistaken,
The Poulton farm is one of the
incest producing farms on the Ohio
side of the river and is making a
nice lot of OIL The Reed farm
owned by these people is making
some oil, too. During the week
| Gordon & CO. shot their old No. l
on the Reed farm which was al
ways considered a dry hole and will
have producer good for about IS
to 80 barrels day. With the ex-
ception OF the Gordon people there
is very little, work being done in the
Wilson Run development. The
Wilson Run Oil company are drill
| ing a we'll on the J. and w. Ed
wards farm which should reach the
sand the early part of the coming
week. Gordon & Co. started their
No. 5 on the Reed during the week
and are drilling at about 500 feet
now. The we'll drilled on the Hupp
farm about a mile ahead of devel,
opments by Laugher Bros. was a
very important well and opened up
some new territory The well
when drilled in showed for, a pro-
producer, and since it was shot and
cleaned out looks as + ough it would
be good for about 20 to IS barrels a
day. r. ..... ,..,.:,,. n,T,,
| One of the most important strikes
of the week was that of the Carter
Oil company, ON the Thistle farm,
out in the interior of the county,
on Buffalo creek, =? in the vi
cinity of the big well drilled in on
the Marshall farm by Jones & Co.,
which was completed the first OF
the week. The Thistle is located
only a short distance from the big
we'll, and it was thought, certain
that it would be good, big pro-
Queer, but it was not. The we'll is a
big gasser, but there was very lit
tie show of oil. The territory out
, there is full of gas. and it is now
believed the Marshall we'll is some
thing like the old Dye Brooks, a
freak. A little pocket of oil has
been found accidentally, and that
} is all there is in that section tc
amount to anything. Jones is drill
ing several more wells out, there
and it will not be long until it will
be definitely known what there is
there >,iit2HoD d. r.. "y '...
| In the Berea grit section of the
Elk Run poollthere has been moth
ing reported during the week except
Shay & McMullen's No. on the
Schtneltzenbach farm which was
drilled in a couple Of days ago, The
well is a gasser 3 and showed some
oil, but not enough to be of any
consequence. There are several
other wells drilling in this territory
but since the stuff up in the north.