Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-29
OIL NEWS.

Sistersville, W. Va, January Is
There has been very little of more than
| ordinary interest in the oil fields of
the southwest, outside of the Scio, o.,
territory, during the past week. In
fact, there has been practically moth
ing. The most important happening
of the week has been the drilling in
of Boyd Bros. & Co.'s well on the
Briggs farm in the northeast extension
of the Elk Fork field. This well has
caused quite a deal of interest in that
field and there is every reason to be-
lieve that in very short time, as soon
as the roads will permit, that there
will be a large amount of work done
to the north and east of the old pool
The we'll mentioned above, which was
drilled in during the week, is located
ahead of anything that has been drilled
in over there yet and will open UP a
large amount of new stuff.
This well is the most important one
that has been drilled in in the Elk
Fork field for some time, and has re-
vived the interest which was tagging
in regard to that territory. Then again
the we'll which Treat & Crawford drill
ed in a couple of weeks ago on the Flu
harty farm in the same section, has
had great deal to do with the re-
newed interest which has been mani
tested in the Elk Fork territory. This
we'll has been drilled in about three
weeks now, and it is believed that it
has made more oil during that time
than any of the ether wells which have
been drilled in either the old pool, the
southwest extension or the northeast
extension. The we'll started off at be-
tween 20 and 25 barrels, and is now
holding up at better than Is barrels
an hour.
The Elk Run territory, over in Wash
ington county, Ohio, has done practic
ally nothing this week towards fur
nishing news of interest There has
been one or two wells drilled in over
there, but they have been of little i'm
portance. Perhaps the most important
well drilled in over there was that Of
Kline & Co., ON the Watson farm, near
the Blue Bird store. This well, which
was without a doubt one of the most
unlucky that has been drilled IN this
section for a long time, it having had
a half dozen fishing jobs, and on one
of them the rig had to be moved.
gasser and has since drilled itself
deeper, and is now a good strong gas
we'll
All the companies which are operat-
ing in the northeast extension of the
Elk run territory are pushing their
work as rapidly as the present state of
things will permit. The weather has
been so Indictment and the roads in
Ia hot h
been almost impossible to get the nee
essary material on the ground to do
the work, and as a consequence a num-
Der of wells which have been in con-
temptation for some time have not
been started for that very reason.
There are at the present time in the
neighborhood of half a dozen wells
drilling, and there would be twice that
many if it were possible to get the
material out to start the wells. The
Carter Oil Company has a couple of
wells drilling on the Day farm, one on
the Cocks, and one on the B. Smith
farm. All of these wells are being
pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible, and one or two of them should
be in the sand the early part of the
coming week
is drilling a couple of wells on the
Martha Thomas farm, and also one on
the Dan Thomas farm. The locations
have been made for several more wells
on these farms, and they will be start
ed drilling as soon as it is possible to
get the rigs built. On the Harvey 20
acre lease Fertig & Co. are drilling
their No. /, and it should get the Cow
run sand the early part of next week
If nothing is found in the shallow sand
the we'll will be drilled to the Big In
jun.
Boyd Bros. well, on the briggs farm,
which is mentioned elsewhere, was re
ported this evening to be good for
about Is barrels an hour.
The South Penn Oil Company's No.
2, on the NJ V. Wells farm, in the
northeast extension of the Elk Fork
pool, was cased with the 81 casing
yesterday. Their No. 8, on the same
farm, was started to spudding yester-
day evening.