The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-13
NTHE OIL FIELDS.

Producers are Justly elated over the
recent advances in the credit balance
market and are now specializing on
where It will stop. There is nothing
very bulllsh in the field situation, but
none are inqulrIng very closely into the
cause as long US the market advances
two cents at a jump. Tuesday the
market for Pennsylvania crude was ad-
vanced from 81 10 to 81 q. North Lima
from lightweight cents to eighty-ntne
cents; South Lima and Indiana from
elghty-three to eighty-four cents, and
scIo from 81 90 to 81 81.
In the northeast extension Of the Elk
Fork pool. In Tyler county, the JaSobs
OIL CompAnys No. / on the James ia
cobs farm ls holding up at two hum
dred barrels a day. The following
shows the gauges Of the other wells In
that locality, making one hundred or
more barrels n day; South Penn OIL
Company No. 2 well, $50 barrels; Yoke
& SteelsmIth No. 2, Kate Morrow, 100
barrels: Rice Farm Oil Company No. 5,
Il, +. Rice. 225 barrels: Jacobs OIL
Company No. /, Aaron Jacobs, 200 bar
relS.
The west Of the northeast extension
Of the Campbell's Run development. IN
MonongalIa county, Is not coming up to
the expectation OF those who played II
for n winner some months since, when
the big wells were drilled In on the
Eddy farms. Courtney & MeDermott
have completed their test on the Carl
son Bros farm and have duster. The
well was drilled 24b9 feet below the
Pittsburgh coal and got good gas
pressure in the Campbell run and Cor
On the east side OF the Flat run de-
velopment, the South Penn OIL Com
pany has completed It's No. on the
Elizabeth Taught farm and has
slxty-barrel producer
In the Huntsville district! Harrison
county, the same company's No. ., J. Il.
Barnett, is holding up at one hundred
barrels a day.
on stIllwell creek, Wood county
Barnsdall & Mead have completed their
No. G on the S. P. Altman farm and
have n twenty-barrel producer. In the
same district and on the same stream,
Beatty & Company are drilling ut l'2Ou
feet at their test well on the w. X.
No. 4, b. Jones, Is due in the sand.
on Worthington creek. Walker &
Company have started to drill at their
No, i on the S. ]. West farm. Caldwell
& Ernest are due in the sand this week
Mt their second test well on the Rita
Freshwater farm.
In ogden district, Knoke & Company
will drill in a test well late this week
on the r, McSibben farm. The same
company is drilling Mt 1880 feet at It's
test on the Albert McKibben farm in
Union district.
completed It's No. 6 on the Newbanks
farm nm Worthington creek and has u
ilVe-barTel pumper.
Henderson Oil Company has completed
twenty-barrel producer on the z; T,
MonIson farm. The same company mas
completed fivc-bnrrel pumper on the
G. l.. Parker farm.
ON the Ohio river, the Waverly OIL
Company has completed n Cow Run
snnJ buster on the S. Dorman farm. in
Union district.
on the c. d. Grouse farm and kraeer q
Wade got one on the j. Il. Bits tarm'
The Rider oil Company and Phillips q
Carpenter had the same kind OF luck on
the Kuhn Bros. and Henry Athey
farms. ,.,,-
field, in Monroe county, the MOUNDS
vile OH Company has completed Its
No. 5 on the Baker farm and has very
light producer.