Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-24
OIL NEWS.


PARKERSBURG, w. Va, July 20
The Calk Creek Oil Companys No. IL
venture is rated at one hundred barrels
a day. flowing naturally through the
casing. The we'll is the fifth producer
Receiver Commodore Dotson has COM
pleted on the lease since he took con-
troll.
At Rutherford the Oriole well, No. 2
on H. S. Wilson's farm, is better than
was first reported. 1t is making ten
barrels an hour and holding right up
to this rate all the time. The we'll is
the property of Messrs. Barnsdale &
Rich.
R. G. Caldwell had the misfortune
to complete buster at Mechanicsburg
yesterday, and the Southern Oil Com
pany's venture on the farm of the
Miller heirs at Whiskey Run is in and
is buster.
The plug and string of casing
were blown out of the Hascy Oil Com
pany's gas we'll on the Morrison farm
at Whiskey Run this week. The gas,
escaping through an opening in the
casing, made a queer whistling noise
which could be heard for miles, and all
efforts to control the well have proved
failure 1t is probable the well will
be sold
Suit has been instituted in the Unit
ed States Circuit Court by the attorneys
for w. T. Reese and j. d. Hazlett,
against N. G. linn and the South Penn
Oil Company. The object of the suit
is to obtain an injunction restrain
ing the defendants from operating
lease Of 355 acres situated on McKim
creek, Tyler county. The lease in con-
troversy is claimed by all parties, but
the plaintiffs aver that the defendants
forfeited their right to develop the
property by the failure to pay rentals
and to develop the property. The
lease in dispute is considered very van
liable, being situated contiguous to val
liable territory.
In the Scio, Ohio. field the new wells
coming in are small, as compared with
the first wells completed in the field.
An average of over forty barrels a day
each was the production of the first
one hundred wells completed in the
field, but the new ventures being COM
pleted do not average over fifteen bar
rels daily. The center of the field has
been punched full of holes and nothing
but the outer edges of the field are to
be developed, but the oil found is worth
S135, and operators can afford to drill
for the stuff. The expense of cutting
down wells are much smaller than any
but the Cow Run sand territory in the
southwest, and the territory at Scio
also has the additional advantage CT
being more regular and there are not so
many chances of getting buster.
The Southern Oil Company, compos-
ed of T. N. Barnsdall and others has
completed their No. 2 we'll on the H.
S. Wilson farm lease in the Devil Hole,
Ritchie county field and they have a
two hundred barrel we'll in the Big In
jun sand. Grayson & Co., on the Moore
farm in the same development, also
got a good producer recently.
A fifteen barrel a day venture has
also been completed by the Lincoln
Oil Company in the Bull creek district
on the Hunter farm.
When the drill in the South Penn Oil
Company's Piney Fork venture on the
E. A. Booth farm penetrated the sand
the venture flowed 120 barrels in the
first twenty-four hours. 1t is the
company's No. and the No. F. l..
Hogue when completed made 35 barrels
the first twenty-four hours, and is still
drilling The company in the Camp
bells run development in Monongalia
county have completed their M. A.
Tustin No. 4 and have a fve-barrel
producer.
The field now claiming the attention