Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-12
ANOTHER GREAT GDSHER
Said to Be the Biggest 10 the State
Struck in Harrison County.

TO THE TANk-OTHER NEWS
OF OIL DEVELOPMENT FROM
ALL QUARTERS - WHEELING
FIRMS STRIKE.
Special to the Register.
HARRISBURG, w. Va, October II.
The Samuel Stonestreet oil well came
in to-day at the rate of eight hundred
barrels a day. 1t is said to be the
greatest gusher in the State and located
within one mile of Golf well No. 5.
The territory in all sections Of. Harri
son county has been considered very
promising by oil men, and is being de-
veloped at wonderful rate. This
gusher is expected to add further i'm
petus to the development. Every sec
ton of Harrison county is now regarded
as good, while the movement to Lewis
county occasioned by the recent gusher
strike, has been most unusual.
Special to the Register
PARKERSBURG, w. Va, October IL.
The well at Walker station. on the
DeVaughn farm. has been completed
by Elliott Dotson and is buster.
The test well on the Lyons farm.
above town, is down 500 feet, and work
is delayed on account of broken
stem.
Excitement has about died out in
Lewis county The Southern Oil Com
pany Camden No. is falling off stead
lily but surely, the gauge showing for
the last twenty-four hours a production
of SO barrels; the preceding "a hours it
flowed over 100 barrels. Although it is
thought that when drilled deeper into
the sand it will be good for about 100
day. The majority Of the leasers who
f1ocked to the well have all gone, the
most OF the territory having been COB
bled up by the big fellows.
Special to the Register.
WESTON, w. Va, October 11.-A
firm, composed of Mallory Brothers,
]. w. Williams and others, of Clarks-
burg, made a location to-day on the
farm of Stark White three miles north
east of the Camden well. 1t looks to-
night that the scabs are leaving and
| the big dealers are now coming in.
While an attempt is being made to
quiet the excitement, which still pre-
walls, Mr.. Camden denies the report
that the flow is subsiding. Conserva-
| tive oil men here do not hesitate to
express great faith in this territory.
The Harrison we'll to-day shows sim
liar formation at six hundred and
sixty foot There is a showing OF oil.
u71, hO 10
filled and the we'll is again turned into
the creek. The carload of tanks is at
Clarksburg tonight, and will be de-
| livered here at an early hour in the
morning.
| special to the Register
TORONTO, O.. October Ill. j.
| Crawford has leased territory on Crox-
| ton run, one mile northeast of the city
! limits. and will at once thoroughly test
| this heretofore undeveloped territory
! for oil and gas Oil operations have
taken on new life in this vicinity which
has been paying well three miles south
! (the Island Creek field, and five miles
west (the Knoxville). In addition to
| these Ohio fields the eastern limit of
| the Turkeyfoot. w Va, field is not
| more than a mile distant, so it looks as
| if the northeast territory should pro-
| duce oil. Should oil be secured it will
open up new territory. At the location
| of the first test we'll to be drilled gas
has been bubbling up in the run bed
| for years.
Word was received here yesterday
that Harry Seybold and P. S. Cress-
we'll struck a hundred barrel well on
Jackson's Ridge on the Duval lease.
They have the second rig up, and the
third rig started, on the same lease.