Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-09-03
OHIO COUNTY 70 Be TESTED
Further By Parties Who Think Oil
May Be Found.
IN PAYING QUANTITIES-A HALF
MILLION SAID TO HAVE BEEN
SUNK IN DRY HOLES IN THIS
COUNTY - TWO THOUSAND
ACRES TO BE TESTED BY A
LOCAL COMPANY = NEWS OF
OPERATION. AND PRODUCTION
IN ALL THE FIELDS.

IN ALL THE FIELDS.
The present high price of oil, and the
definition of all the existing pools, has
stimulated Indicating in various sec
lions of West Virginia, particularly III
Lewis and Harrison counties. Wneel-
ing capital has been invested IN great
many oil ventures, and the gradual ex-
tension of pools toward Ohio county,
has raised the hope that the greasy
fluid might be found in paying quanti-
ties in the vicinity of Wheeling. When
operations have been dull elsewhere
there have been number of ventures
in this section. Some of the wells have
been sunk for gas and others for oil.
All these ventures, as a matter OF
course, have been rank wild cats. A
well known operator estimated for the
Register reporter yesterday that not
less than a half million dollars has
been squandered in the search Tor OIL
and gas in Ohio county. He included
in this estimate the Boggs run well and
the Viola ventures. The Boggs run
well was sunk a number of years ago,
and was said at the time to be the
deepest we'll in the world, the Federal
government continuing the operation
of the drill in the interest OF geological
research after the owners were ready to
abandon the we'll.
Several wells have been put down in
and about Wheeling. The hole at the
Central glass works and the well at
the La Belle developed nothing. There
is said to have been a mere showing
of oil at the old Thompson well, after
it was abandoned This fact led to the
recent drilling of a well on the south
bank of the creek, opposite the
Thompson farm, which was a buster.
In the interior of the county several
wells were drilled and also a number
along the river front.
In all this Indicating, there was
section of land along Short creek which
was never tested 1t is this territory,
embracing about 1000 acres, which is
now to be penetrated by the drill. The
company which has leased the land is
the Short Greek Oil and Gas Company,
which organized and elected Board
of Directors last week. Mr.. j. c. De-
vine was the promoter of the enter
prise.
The gentlemen who are interested in
the Short Creek Oil and Gas Company
have had considerable experience in oil
drilling, and they regard it as extreme
ly improbable that the pay grease should
be found on all sides of Ohio county
and that this section should not be over
a. pool. There is oil across the Penn
sylvania State line. There is oil in
Marshall county, and in Belmont coun-
ty, o. Why not in Ohio county? say
they In any event, they propose to
give substantial proof of the faith that
is within them, and will soon make
location and start the erection of rig
ON Short creek
SCIO, O., Sept. 2-Scio oil has adj
vanced to $1.45. There are thousands
of barrels of oil being held here and
the firms are in a position to hold the
oil till they get what they want for it.
The second well on the Paul farm, near
Newport, came in with oil and both
wells will be pumped D. & j. O'Day
have a 10 barrel well on the Stephen
son farm. Meldren & Co. No. 3, Fisher
farm, is 10 barrel we'll R. Hogue No.
AZ is a Is barrel we'll. Lawrence Oil
Co. Nos. rs and 26, w. & l.. E. right
of way, are 10 barrel wells. Jennings
& Co. No. %, Whitaker, is a 20 bar
rel we'll. The Dresden oil well came
in a duster Oil has been found in
some quantity at Adelphi. The Max
well farm well near Cadiz is good for
25 barrels since shot The Thompson
farm well drilled and shot Il years
ago in the same vicinity, is still MAX
ing barrels. Ferguson & Co. shot
No. s, Minard farm, and it flowed 80
barrels in three hours. Ohio Oil Co.
No. 8 is a good producer. The Goshen
Oil Co.'S we'll is a good producer.
Ferguson No. II, Minard, is a good
producer.
Russell Bros have a gasser on the
McSandsborough farm, showing 100,-
600 cubic feet of gas daily, which is a
gold mine for fuel. They have 27 pro-
ducers and a daily production Of ESQ
barrels Russell Bros. 1 and Kimmel
farm are good wells.
Special to the Register.
WEST UNION, w. Va, September 2.
The well of the Eastman Oil & Gas
Company on the Lehman Maxwell tract
has been shot and is expected to make
so barrel well. The venture makes
the field large and greatly increased
the interest
The Trout No. 6 reached the pay
Monday and is showing for 80 barrel
well.
The Pearcy fsrm well on Toms
Fork is thought to be a venture that
will only make very slight showing,
as 1t only indicates the smallest streak
Of pay yet encountered.
All three wells are Gordon sand
producers
Special to the Register
PARKERSBURG, w. Va. September
2.-R. G. Caldwell has purchased the
interest of Lysander Dudley and j. w.
Carney in the Retta Freshwater lease.
near Dallison, for 1000 cash.
The freak of Leonard & Depue on
the old Rathbone tract, at Burning
Springs, which was drilled in 1860
cleaned out recently and flowed at a
tremendous rate, took another spell