Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-06-28
OIL NEWS.


test wells which are being drilled on
the edge of the town. To tell the
truth of the matter, the people living
in the town who own lots are wild
with excitement and they have raised
the price of their property three or four
times what it could have been gotten
for a short time ago. Everything
about the town on which a well could
be located is being leased, even to the
fair grounds, and yesterday an at
tempt was made by a well known COM
pany to lease the cemetery. The two
wells drilling out there are that Of the
oxford Oil Company, on the Hickman
farm, which will be due in the sand
Wednesday afternoon or evening, and
the other we'll is being drilled by a
home company on the Maloy farm.
Both of the wells are at a different end
OF the town and if either of them
comes in good it will be a great thing
for M~iddlebourne. Yesterday the jug
Oil Company leased the fair grounds
and a number of town lots, and nearly
everyone who can is leasing a lot or a
piece of trritory as close to the wells as
possible.
Yesterday evening the South Penn
Oil Company drilled in their test we'll
on the Frank Rymer lease out in the
jug territory, a couple of miles south
east OF M~iddlebourne, and will have a
well good for better than 100 barrels a
day. The well is located right in the
centre of the jug and there is every
reason to believe that a good pool has
been opened up there. Treat & Craw-
ford, who have a large block of terri
tory under lease there, have made the
location for a we'll on the Rymer
farm, offsetting the South Penn Oil
Company's well, and will start it to
drilling as soon as it is possible to get
the material on the ground, and the rig
built. The South Penn has made the
locations for a couple more wells on
the same farm, and will start them as
soon as the rigs can be completed.
In the northeast extension Of the Elk
Fork field the South Penn Oil Com
paiy will be due in the sand at their
No. 1 ON the Jacobs farm. This we'll
is located a little in advance of forms
er developments in this territory, and
the well is of some Importance as it
will extend the limits of the field some
distance.
Durham ct al. have made a deal
with Cusick ct al, who owned the
Feisle farm in the same section, and
will start a couple of wells in a short
time. They gave $500 for the lease and
will carry the other parties a half in
terest in the first two wells.
There is quite a line war over in the
Elk Run territory in Washington
county, Ohio, at this time. A short
time ago Garner & Afford drilled in
their No. I on the Mendinghall farm,
and got a good producer. The Carter
Oil Company has leases on three sides
of the MendinghaI farm and it is max
ing locations up again the line on two
of them, and will probably do so on the
other one. They have completed the
rig for No. / on the d. Thomas farm,
and will start it to drilling in a very
short time. The locations have been
made for Nos. 2 and 8 on the same
farm, and the rigs will be started as
soon as the material can be gotten.
This farm is located on the west side
of the Mendinghall, and on the east of
the Smith farm the same company has
made three locations and are hustling
the material out for them.
Garner & Affords No. / on the Men
dinghall, which is the cause of all this
trouble, and which was drilled in a
couple of weeks ago, is reported to he
making about so barrels a day.
On the Handlon lease, Henderson &
Co., of Marietta, are in the bottom of
the lime and should get the same to-
morrow or next day. This well is To-
Gated near the Blue Bird store and is
a little north of the wells recently drill
ed in on the Watson farm
The Carter Oil Company has the rig
building for their No. 7 on the B..
Smith farm, and also for their No. 2
on the Fred Smith farm. The rigs will
be completed in a couple of days, when
drilling will be started.
Shay & McMullen should get the
sand at their No. 2 on the Taught farm
in the southern part of the Elk Fork
field tomorrow or mex day.
The Sutton Oil Company has made
the location and will start the rig in a
couple Of days for their Ma. l on the
Smith so acres. This we'll is some dis
lance ahead of developments and will
open up some ley territory.
The Henderson Oil Company will be