Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-16
THE FIGHT N|IHTHE STANDARD
Is Expected to Be a Bitter and Elk
pensive One,
But Operators in This Stale Will
Aid the Comp 9titive Concern.
Great Interest in the Matter
Among the Operators = Latest
News Of Development and Pro
ductiOn in the Fields.
Special to the Register.

ClSltI SFlllo, w. Nd., JduudIy To-
About the only topic of conversation
among the Oil men for two days was
about the proposed extension of the
United States Pipe Line from its pres
ent terminus at Coraopolis, Pa, to
the fields in this State. Some of the
promoters of the scheme to run the
line into the field were seen to-day,
and asked about the matter, but they
ali said there was nothing new to give
out, and the most of them refused to
talk on the subject AT all. 1t is a falt,
however, that since yesterday quite q
lot Of the stock has been subscribed
for by operators in this section, and
it is going very rapidly. There is net
the least doubt but that the line viii
be built if such thing is possible.
The Standard will of course make q
very hard fight to keep the line out,
and may for awhile succeed in delay
ing it to a considerable extent, but it
is believed that ultimately the line will
be built and the independent people
will come out victorious.
1t was learned on good authority to-
day that the Standard had gotten onto
the scheme a short time ago, and that
it was already making and had made
some plans to combat the building OF
the line Of course the Independent
escuple are expecting just such action
Yrom the great trust, and are also
making preparations. The indications
are that it Will be battle royal be-
tween two OF the greatest corpora
tons in the oil business with the odds
in favor of the least important one Of
the two. In all the fights the Standard
has had with the independent people
during the past few years the latter
has always come off victorious, and of
course the former is commencing TO
think it is not the only pebble On the
oeach.
In order to get all the high grade
petroleum to fill it's foreign contracts
the Standard is compelled to rely on
the West Virginia fields. There was u
time years ago when the great trust
controlled all the fields which pro-
duce the Pennsylvania grade of crude
petroleum, but The indap aldent5 have
been encroaching on its territory for
couple of years, and DIS result i
had to turn this way. OV,1 one haf
of the Pennsylvania oil produced in
the world is supplied from the fields
of West Virginia. IN order to Keep
control of the iii in this State it is
meet that it sho I'D fight tie ,:dep;rG
ent people hard and llis it is pre-
pairing to do. The other side is also
making preparations to combat thei"
old anita onist and the outcome will
be watched with interest by hundreds
of anxious operators in this part of
tne country.
All the operators here aie jubilant
yer the outlook for the future and
everyone Of them will assist the new
project in every way they can. They
think it is to their interest to have
another line in here, ana they vii.
fight hard for their right.
The Victor Oil Co. has made two
more locations on its leases out in the
vicinity Of Centreville, in Tyler coun-
ty, and will commence to drill on
them as soon as the rigs have been
built. The locations are: one on the
Duty lease and two on the Smith.
| The well drilled in by this company
on the Smith lease a couple OF days
ago is still holding up at about 400
barrels day
The South Penn Oil Co. has drilled
in its No l on the Reppart lease, and
it is showing a little gas, but no oil
1t will be drilled through the sand,
but the indications are for dry hole
The klondyke- Oil Co. is drilling at
1000 feet at their we'll on the john
Johnson lease, and the we'll should be
in the sand by the middle Of next
week
The South Penn Oil Co. will put the
6A casting in its well on the Plerpont
farm tomorrow, and should be in the
sand the first of the coming week
The Hill Oil Co. has drilled il it's
No. II on the Hill 100-acre lease, and
the indications are that it will make
about $50 barrels day 1t was ex-
pected to be better we'll, as 1t Is lc-
Gated just across the line from the
Fishers well on the Henthorn, which
is now making between 800 and 4UO
barrels a day.
Cobb G Glenn have mede the loca-
tons and are building the rigi for