Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-14
OIL NEWS.
New Wells and Locations-Notes About
the Producing Wells

Special to the Register.
Ellenboro. w. Va, March 19.-Yes-
terday afternoon Mallory & Barnsdale
shot their big gusher on the Abicht
farm with ten quarts of nitro-glycen-
inc and increased the production to 35
barrels per hour, which is the largest
production the well has ever made.
1t is nearly six weeks old, and before it
was shot yesterday, was making 43O
barrels a day.
Contractor Dave Upham recovered
the bit lost in T. Garland & Co. s No
l on the G. W. Barnes twelve-acre
tract yesterday, and struck the pay
last night. This morning the we'll is
reported making 80 barrels an hour.
This well settles the fact that the
Abicht gusher is not a freak, and all
though the distance between the two
wells is only 800 feet, had this new
hole have been dry it would have con-
demned a lot Of territory and upset
the theory Of those who count OF a
southwest line, which is almost con-
clusively proven now.
Gartlan & Coz No. l on the S. G.
Williamson farm is due in Tuesday.
Pat Langton is the contractor.
Mallory g. Barnsdall's No Abicht
will reach the pay about Thursday
next
The South Penn Oil Co. have begun
spudding on the Thomas Whalley farm
and will soon Lave two other wells
under way.
Col Ira Dewitt, the well known OPP
orator located No. on the Naaman
Barnes farm yesterday. Colonel De-
witt drilled No. / on this farm five
years ago, which came in a gasser,
and al that time informed your cor
respondent that the location was not
far enough east, and suggested to his
partners that they drill another well,
but they objected and he surrendered
his leases, among them, one on the
Abicht farm. He only missed a bo-
nanza by 1.760 feet.
The venture on the L. Hayhurst
farm, on Husher's run, is clear of tools
once more.
Ellenboro is booming just now, and
bids fair to rival Sistersyille.
The morning and evening trains
crowd the platforms with passengers
and the freight traffic is immense.
Within fifteen days, two restaurants,
a drug store, two gents furnishing
stores a welding shop, a lumber yard,
a tank shop, a livery stable, rig and
reel plant, furniture store and gro
Gerry have been arranged for and more
are coming every day. The Register,
always abreast of the times, has also
quadrupled its circulation. and is very
popular among the oil men.
I. E. Dye has returned from Pitts
burg. where he closed up a lease with
Greenlee & Forst for $50 acres of his
fathers land A well is 10 be COM
menced at once.
Jolly jim Shay is again domiciled at
the Ellenbcro House, with a new stock
of stories, and has his eye on several
valuable leases.
George Shryock, Of Sistersyille, has
completed a most authentic and VAL
liable map of the oil field in this local
ity. It included locations Of pr0duc-
ing wells, dry holes, gassers, drilling
wells and new locations.
This week Stephen Marcum & Co.
struck another 50-barrel producer on
the Ired Garrison farm on Bear run.
The South Penn Oll 20. loSl blt
while cleaning out their we'll on the
Miller farm on Big run.
A later report from the new strike
on the Barnes twelve-acre tract says
the new gusher may make 1850 barrels
day. This beats the Abicht we'll and
all others in the State, and operators
will use every endeavor to get new
holes down with all possible speed. Il
looks like a new pool Of large proper
tons has been tapped, and the excite
ment will be at fever heat for time.