Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-06-13
Oil Notes.
Yesterdays MARKET.

Corning ........... ..,......,. SO
Newcastle ...,....,...,.. ..'.... So
North Lima .........'.ss .'''''' oU
South Lima ......., ........''.'' 70
lndiana ........s'' '''''''''''''' 20
Piptsburg, June 1.-THE week just
closed has been one of the least event
full in many months. There were no
new discoveries in the lower southwest
fields that had any bearing on the
fields under development or opening up
Of new territory remote from produc-
ton With the great volume of work
of am experimental nature now under
way 1t Us somewhat remarkable that no
new territory is forthcoming 1t Is
quite evident chat new pools are grow
ing scarce and consequently are much
harder to find
West Virginia and Southeastern
Ohio are still the most active in devel-
opments and work of the wildcat kind.
The latter class is confined to NO par
| ticular locality. In Ohio it extends ov-
er half a dozen counties, and the scores
of busters that have greeted the efforts
to find new pools in the past four
months does not seem to dampen the
ardor of the wildeatter Much new
talent and outside capital has been at
tracted to the business in Southeastern
Ohio. Many local companies have
been organized, but as yet Scib is the
only town to furnish the home comp
any with satisfactory returns for the
money invested in testing territory.
1t is thought that more than so dry
holes have been drilled in Harrison
and Jefferson counties alone since that
Scio excitement began. Some few of
the wells have found oil in small guam
titles, but none of the projectors have
asked for a pipe line to transport the
product to the market.
In the face Of q multiplicity of fail
ures the work of testing new territory
goes right on. Those who did not
agree with the expressed opinion of
the writer two months ago, when 1t
was claimed that the Scio field was de-
fined, now find that no argument to
the contrary can be advanced During
the interim more than score of wells
have been completed at almost every
point of the compass from the main
development, and the producing lines
have not been advanced 1000 yards in
any one direction.
1t is noteworthy coincidence that
the very first wells drilled in the Scio
field are located in the center of the
dvlopmnt. The distance from the east
to the west sides of the pool is almost
evenly divided by the town, and the
same is true of the north and south
line, with the exception that the pro-
ducing territory extends farther north
and south than east and west, giving
the field a half greater area in length
than breadth, Three thousand acres
will probably embrace all of the pro-
ducing territory of the Scio field In
side of the present producing limits
there have been more than $50 wells
| completed, and of the entire number
not single duster. The way the town
lot wells continue to produce, despite
that in sine instances the derricks
most touched each other, it has been a
surprise to the most experienced oper-
ator Usually in town lot dvelope-
ments the work of pulling out and
abandoning the first wells completed
has commenced by the time the last
crop reached its completion. Such
was the experience at Cecil only three
and half years ago. At Scio all of
the town lot wells, some of them near
ly year old, are still producing. 1t
is true a number of them have declin-
ed to very small producers, not more
than three or four barrels day, but it
will be some time before they are no
longer profitable. When the field has
been fully developed it will have more
than 500 producing wells to its credit.
The daily production of the field
reached its highest point some time
ago, and is now on the decline, but
not with the same rapidlty as it ad-
vanced.
In interest the Garner deep sand de-
velopment in Wetzel county, West
Virginia, has supplanted Scio. The
Garner farm well has proven a slayer,
and the. completion of the work now
under way in that vicinity is anxiOusly
awaited. The Gordon sand territory
has been an important factor in West
Virginia in the past few years. Start
ing with Marion county, prolific pro-
duclng pools of large area have been
found in Wetzel, Monongalia, Tyler
and Harrison counties. The last two
named have recently presented some
deep sand attractions. Pleasante
county has come rapidly 10 the from
with its shallow or Cow Run sand pro.
ductton. The wildcatter~is about as
busy in that part ST the country as in
Southeastern Ohio. The advance in
the price of pipe, largely increasing
the cost of operating, will make the
shallow sand territory much sought
afteT.-Derrick.
In Mayors Court.
Peter Haley. who was charged with
being disorderly on Greene street Sat