Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-22
OIL NEWS.

NEW MARTINSVILLE, w. Va, July
21-The South Penn Oil Company has
completed their No. Is Pinnick in the
Gordon sand in the Piney Fork pool and
have very small producer. The A. G.
Eddy venture, just completed, made a
40-barrel flow after being shot.
The Octo Oil Company will put down
a test on the James Reynolds farm in
Peasants county, and A. Stewart & Co.
are putting down a test on the Bier
Bros. farm.
East Of the Calcutta field about one
mile, where many new locations have
been made, the Vesperine Oil Company
have completed a 50-barrel well OF the
| Baughman tract. Many new test ven
lures are started and are located in such
parts OF the Wetzel county fields as to
cause much notice being given them by
the talent. as they will no doubt tell
fairly well the extent of the producing
territory
In Morgan county, Ohio, the test well
of Root & Co. in the Chester Hill shall
low sand field is completed on the Rob-
herman farm and they found the sand
dry. The Union Oil Company's No. 4
in the same field on the Lambert farm
is also a buster. A two-barrel pro-
Queer was completed by II. H. Burns
on the J. Mercer farm and the Morris
Farm Oil Company have completed
their No. 5 Morris and have ive-bar-
rel pumper. Greenlee & Co. on the Van
Law farm, and Lord, Lowell & Co. No.
Z Woolman are completed and are dry
Barnsdall's No. we'll on the Dixie
farm in the Ogdin field, which is COM
pleted, filled up several hundred feet
with oil when the drill broke the sand,
and is estimated to be good for so bar
rels day. The we'll will be given a
Shoot to-day.
Charles C. Jones, minor, leased for
ty acres of land recently on the j D.
Sharp farm, in Peasants county Ac-
cording to his allegation the land was
leased in the name of his cousin, Geo.
Jarvis, who disposed OF a quarter to
A. j. Cokeley. Recently young Charles
Jarvis was persuaded to dispose of his
one-siXth interest for the sum of $50,
the land being represented to him as
worthless, according to his allegations.
A few days ago shallow we'll was COM
pleted on the lease which is doing near
ly two hundred barrels daily. Now JAR
Wis wants his interest back and has
brought suit through his next best
friend, ]. d. Wolverton. to have the
sale set aside, and to recover his inter
est. An injunction was granted yester-
day restraining the Pipe Line Company
from delivering any more oil to the
defendants, c. T. Caldwell having gone
to Peasants county and brought the
suit to recover the interest.
No. 8 Cassidy, of the United States
Oil Company, in the Moores Junction,
Ohio. field. was completed yesterday.
Two wells, one a small pumper and the
other a buster, had already been drilled
on the farm. The drill penetrated the
sand, the hole at once filled up, and
began flowing at the rate of 100 barrels
a day. This is the last venture to be
drilled on the good productive streak in
the Moore's field, which the United
States company had developed with so
much success, and it is more than prob
able that some experimental work will
be done later. The same company got
a ten-barrel pumper in their No 6 Au-
gustine in the Cats Creek field They
are drilling in the salt sand in the
Reynolds farm we'll near Belpre, Ohio,
and as nothing whatever was encoun-
tered in the upper formations, it is
probable the we'll will be put down to
the Berea. There is an abandoned we'll
only few feet from the drilling we'll
and as it is producing a few barrels
of oil daily, much interest is conferred
on the well in progress. The well pro-
ducing is believed to be in the second
Cow Run sand, but since the well drill
ing has failed to produce anything in
this formation it is believed to be pro-
ducing from the Berea. to which the
old we'll was drilled before it was put
to pumping