Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-03-21

| CliO, QTIifSu ludHf years ago. ABOUT
! the time of the Macksburg excitement
| has set the gossips to talking. The
we'll when drilled in claimed the at
| tention of the scouts, but did not prove
a paying producer, and was abandoned
| The two strings of casing were left in
the hole. and the derrick rotted down
Last Saturday the old well began, for
some unaccountable cause, to rumble
and create a commotion, and made a
flow estimated at five or six barrels.
Special to the Register.
Elenboro, W. Va, March 20.-The
Whisky Run Oil Company's No.
Abicht is due in Thursday, and Jones
& Murphy's No. on the VIM. Nc
Gregor farm should reach the sand to-
wards the last of the week. ]. NJ.
Guffy & Co.'S No. 1 on W. H. Hamil-
toms land, is due in Wednesday, and
will be closely watched, as it and the
McGregor well will, in measure, de-
termine the value OF territory on the
southeast.
This week, barring accidents, Cain,
Lambert & Co will finish their VEN
| ture on the Larkin Hayhurst farm. on
Husher's run.
The South Penn Oil Company's well
on D. G. Payne's farm is 1900 feet deep
and their No on Sarah Delong' s
farm is $50 feet deep.
The Oil Well Supply Company has
leased ground here and will erect
branch store and maintain a yard.
The old Hamilton No. ] on Whisky
run IS 10 be cleaned out and pumped
and is thought will be fair well.
Barnsdall & Rich have completed
their No. on the Parks farm at Ruth
erford and it is dry through the Big
Injun sand.
Several new wells will be drilled out
near Rutherford during the coming
month The South Penn Oil Com
| pany will drill on the Sweeny farm,
the Granite Oil Company are starting
their No. on E. Bucks land. and
No. on F. P. Marshall, and the Vol
cano ard Cairo Oil and Gas Co. will
| drill on the Layfred farm.
1t is said VIM. D. Abicht has been
/ offered $4,000 for his remaining one
sixteenth royalty interest in his farm
| on Bonds creek, but has refused the
offer. Mr.. Abicht sold one-sixteenth
about the time the first gusher came
in on his farm for $4,000, and the pur-
| chaser has almost been repaid his pur-
| chase money.
Col. Jim Shay leased the Satterfeld
farm just west Of town yesterday, pay
ing one dollar per acre bonus, and a
good rental.
VIM. Vince leased his Whisky run
farm this week for S150 bonus and $50
per month rental. J. E. Satterfeld
also leased his 45-acre farm for good
bonus.
The Mountain State Gas Company's
well on Mr.. Ross farm on Bear run
is 1900 feet deep. Contractor Hugh
Mearns is drilling the well.
The South Penn Oil Company has
commenced drilling at their No. 2 on
the /. Folger lease in the southwest
extension of the Elk Fork pool. This
well is located near their No. /.
Further south and in direct line
between the Elk Fork development
and the jug" on Middle Island creek,
there is an important well drilling. 1t
was started some time ago on the
Eagan farm by Boyd Bros. The theory
on which this well is being drilled is
that the we'll on the Folger farm drilled
by the South Penn Oil Company pro-
duces about the same quality of oil
as those on the Jug, and the formations
all appear exactly the same.
The Hickman Oil Company has COM
pleted it's well on the Hickman farm
az the Jug, and will have 100 barrel
producer from the top of the sand.
The pay in this well was struck in the
top Of the sand, and deeper drilling
did not seem to help it.
Bartlett & Stancliff's we'll on the
Fletcher lease in the same section was
drilled TO the top of the sand, and as
soon as the cap had been drilled
through the well commenced to flow.
and it is estimated to be good for 100
barrels a day