Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-12
OIL NEWS.

Scio, O., February 11.-Develop-
ments in this field have been retarded
by the Klondike weather this week
which has frozen up water pipes and
has been severe on the men at work.
The thermometer has been as low as
25 below zero. A number of wells due
this week will be delayed in coming
in. Connection creek where water is
obtained is frozen nearly to the bot
tom. The production of the field is
$500 barrels. The work of develop
ing the farms adjacent to this place
is increasing in activity and there is
much interest in the outcome in every
instance. Rigs are still going up on
town lots, but it will not be long until
the limit to town lot work will be
reached Fifteen new rigs are being
erected in town. There are now 81
producing wells in this field and by
the end of February it is expected
they will number 100. The Forsythe
we'll on the John McLandsborough
farm which was rated as a light
pumper is making over 20 barrels.
Brown & CO.. we'll on the ]. T. Steph-
enson lot is a fair producer. Kenne-
dy & FitZgibbens' No. 2 Ramsey is es-
timated at 70 barrels. Schoup & Co.'S
No. l on the S. B. Gibson lot is max
ing about 40 barrels. Other producers
are T. Kearns No. 8, Thos. Barrett,
Mrs. Wilson, Clayton Webb. The
we'll shooters are kept busy at their
death defying work. Their harest
job is in getting the explosive here
from Shamokin. They are barred
from landing at almost every place on
the Ohio and police are lying in wait
for them in all towns and cities on the
west side of the river. The boys who
have nerve enough to handle the ex
plosive have keen enough wits to land
their cargo from skiffs and then get it
across the country.
Rodgers Bros. have come here from
Mcdonald and opened livery stable.
A Mr.. Fox has opened a machine
shop. Arthur and Mcdonald are
erecting a boiler shop. The w. & l..
E. is putting in more sidetracks to ac-
commodate their business. The new
Scio accommodation on the Pan-Han-
die is termed The Greaser" Some
one appropriated a whole car of coal
from the railroad tracks here this
week and there is no clue as to their
identity. The small passenger depot
here is filled with a crowd of men
each day whose smoking, profanity,
ETC., makes it disagreeable for lady
passengers.
Leasing at Rumley three miles east
of here is brisk. The Summit Oil and
Gas Co. and the Cadiz Oil & Gas Co.
have each been incorporated with a
capital stock of $4,000. Lockwood
& Patterson will drill on the Wesley
McCombs farm near Cadiz. John
Coleman, a well-to-do resident of this
place dropped dead due to the oil ex-
element this week. There is consid-
cradle activity in real estate. A five
room frame sold for $4,000 and was
rented a few hours later for 500 per
month. 1t is the report that a build
ing will be erected on it to be used as
dance hall. Three speakesys are in
full blast and besides there are a num-
Der of blind tigers. Arrests and fines
are made daily and $3.50 in fines was
taken in one day. 1t is contemplated
taxing saloons 81 200 per year and let
ting them do open business. An oil
we'll has been located on the John
Johnson farm in German township by
Jennings Bros. The Tippecanoe Oil
& Gas Co. has been incorporated with
Gas Co. has been incorporated with
$4,000 capital. The Eastern Ohio Oil
& Gas Co. has been incorporated by
Steubenville parties to drill in this
field.
Carroll county developments are at
tracing attention. The first well of
the Carrollton Oil & Gas Co. will be
drilled on the ]. c. GantZ farm. The
Kilgore-Harlem Oil & Cos Co. have
contracted with Young and Curry to
drill a we'll 0. Allen & Co. have
1900 acres leased in Union, Monroe
and Orange townships and they viii
drill in Union township, Waynesburg,
Magnolia, Malvern and Sherrodsville;
all have oil companies and will drill
The Union OF Co., Black & Fowler
and Jennings Bros. have leases in
London, Lee and Perry townships. A.
B. Hughes, Col. Weed, J. j. Smith, J.
J. McDivitt, C. P. Fowler and ]. w.
Hankins have been leasing ground in
Carroll county. Two test wells are go
ing down in Perry township. The old
Allison we'll is being recleaned and
PittsbuTg company is sinking a well
in Fox township. Drilling will begin