Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-26
OIL N EWS.
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Special to the Register
Scio, Ohio, February 25.-There are
nearly 100 producing wells in this field
and new wells are being added to the
list daily. The production now stands
at 1900 barrels daily and it is increas-
ing with the advent of new wells, al
though some of the old wells are show
ing a decrease in production. Two
weeks more will see every town lot
drilled on and the development of farm
leases has begun with a vim. This
field has four busters to its credit, the
two last being on the Harrison and
Dulton farms, and the number OF dust
ers will increase as operations get out
side of defined territory. New loca-
tons are being made on territory for
miles around. Among the new wells
drilled in are: jennings & Co. No. 2,
on Heckler lot, so barrels; Moody &
Co. No. l, Keepers lot, so barrels; My
ers & Brown No. 5, on Spiker farm, 80
barrels; Nc. Spiker is rated at 100
barrels; No. 8 Spiker is good for nearly
100 barrels; Ohio Oil Co. No. 2, on NJ. j.
McLandsborough farm, is a better pro-
Queer than No. 1; McFadden, Cessna &
Co.'S No. 1 on Baird & Crooks lot, is
making a showing for 100 barrels; Wal
lace & Co., on the Shambaugh lot, is
good for 100 barrels; Eastern Ohio Oil
CO. No. on Bond lot is good for 100
barrels; Cross Creek Co.'S we'll on the
Carpenter lot, since shot is showing for
a good we'll; Freudenberger-Me on
the Vickers lot, is a good well; Niles,
Atwood & Co.'S No. l Dunlevy is show
ing for 65 barrels; Frazier, Goode &
Cos No. 1 Kirkpatrick is flowing 50
barrels; Russell Bros. on the Thomp-
son lot, is 75-barrel producer; Wilson
& Reynold, on Dewey No. l is good
well, and the editor of the local paper
is counted among the few lucky news
paper men, as it is on his lot; Jennings
& Co.'s No. 6 Custer, rs barrels; Wills
Drilling Co. No. 1 Vail, an average pro-
Queer; Allegheny Oil Co. No Laugh
ridge, Is barrels: Myers & Brown NO,
Shiller, 100 barrels: Forsythe co.
No. / J. Arbaugh and a well on 30
acre tract north of town are good wells.
Town lots are booming a little. Sew
eral that have been begging for thirty
DAYS are now taken at from $500 to
$500 bonus. Oil men say the steadi-
ness of the production of town lots is
something surprising. No field in the
lower southwest is making as good
showing as this, and the interest is
something marvellous. No place that
oil men have visited for quarter of
century has been so completely upset
and overrun during oil operations.
There are now 224 licensed teamsters
here.
Connotton creek, which has its trib-
utaries near Jewett, continues through
to Scio, to Bowerston, Sherrodsville
and New Cumberland, and thence to
the Tuscarawas river In 1889 d. r.
Phillips, who traced the oil belt from
the Ohio river to Jewett, Scio, Connot-
ton and Conversion, leased all the land
between Bowerston and Scio. He part
ly drilled we'll on the Law farm, near
Connection, but was forced to suspend,
as his money ran out. This entire field
that he selected is about to be develop
ed. H. A. Snyder. whose theory In
these later years led to the oil boom in
the Connection valley, thinks some
great oil fields are about TO be tapped
along the line he has marked out from
Oil City to Corning, Perry county,
Ohio. in the counties of Columbiana,
Harrison, Jefferson, Tuscarawas, Car
roll. Belmont, Coshocton, Guernsey,
Muskingum and Perry. Snyder and f.
S. Moore have taken up several thous-
and acres of oil leases near Bergholz,
Pravo and East View, in Jefferson coun-
ty. and will test the territory. A num-
Der of deep water wells about Freeport,
it is reported, have been impregnated
with oil for years, and that territory
will be tested.
G. E. Thompson, of Sistersyille, be-
gun the foundation for a three story
hotel building to have fifty rooms and
to be called the Monitor.
Five rigs are up in the Bowerston
oil field Harrisville citizens have
$500 acres leased and viii drill test
wells Operations have been suspend
ed at New Hagerstown. Adena citi-
zens are calling attention 10 the fact
that they are surely in oil territory. as
wells in which oil has been found in
small quantities have been drilled on
all sides. Forsythe & Co. have a fish
ing job on the Tweedy farm, near Dill
lonvale. Wells will be drilled on leases
in Cat Hollow" near Smithfeld.
Wells are under way at Unionport and
Bloomfield. Uhrichsville citizens be-
gin drilling on Monday. A well will
be drilled by local company on the
Clark farm. near Station Is
Milliken & French have erected a vault
near Mingo Junction for the ssfrage Of
nitro glycerine they bring down HE river
for this field.
The Minera Oil & Gas Company viii
have q test well in at Carroll&n next