Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-19
IND TIE DEVIL CInE Dltk


After Being Driven Out Of the Connot-
ton Valley BY Revival Meetings
HIS SATANIC MAJESTY WAS ONLY
UNDER GOVERNOR HE is
RUNNING SALOONS AND GAMB-
LING HELLS AND THEATRES IN
SCIO-NOT MUCH INTEREST IN
THE PROJECT TO SAVE THE
COLLEGE FOR THE TOWN-THE
OIL FIELD rs CLEARLY DE-
FINED-NEWS OF OPERATIONS
AND PRODUCTION EVERY
WHERE.
Special to the Register.
Scio, O.. March 18.-When revival
meetings were held here in the winter
Of 1898. the motto was Drive the
devil out of the Connection Valley"
His satanic majesty went into v
only to reappear (like the tabled cat
that came back) with the oil boom in
a thousand-fold worse shape for this
valley. Although gamblers and saloon
men have been fined and the grand
jury got in a bad slap on law viola
lions, the selling Of liquor goes on
openly, the proprietors hanging on in
hope of license passing at the. spring
elections and gambling still exists. Only
the wheel of fortune and faro tables
have disappeared. A theatre opened
this week and gives fair performances
to packed houses. Some of the fakes
have been hooted off the stage by the
oil men, who won't put up with such
things.
Mud" of a peculiar quality and
depth still exists and is proving a
hindrance to operations; for instance,
it took ten horses to haul a boiler to
it's location n day.
There are now nearly $50 producing
wells in this field and 16 dry holes.
The territory is now nearly defined by
wells that have come in lately, showing
that inside a circle two miles from
Scio in all directions with the excep-
ton of the southeast the producing ter
ritory exists. Busters or wells of small
capacity dot this circle on all sides.
This field still holds the record for
drilling in the most wells in the same
space of time; also for the small num-
Der of busters found. Among the dust
ers drilled in lately were: Jennings &
Co. No. 1 Whitaker; Lockwood & Co.,
on McCombs' farm. three and a half
miles south; the Haga we'll, which was
pronounced a buster, is filling up with
oil. The Calcott we'll drilled by Dun
levy & Co., is producing some oil and
considerable gas, SO it is not a duster
as first reported. Although the Wat
tiers we'll was said to be dry the same
company is putting up a derrick with
in 400 feet of the alleged dry hole.
1t is given out that the Conversion and
Connection wells, which were reported
busters, are producing some Oil. The
company that drilled in the Belts well
and called it a buster, are evidently
working it as a mystery. This COM
pany paid $500 bonus for an adjoining
farm and there is, said to be oil in the
hole. The territory is leased up on all
sides solidly for ten miles in every
direction, and if producing wells are
drilled in outside the two-mile limit
it will surprise the talent
Among the producing wells drilled
in lately are: Barrett & Co., on hotel
lot, 40 barrels; Forsythe, & Co., on
Arbaugh farm, to the northeast, 20
barrels; United States Oil Company,
No. 3 Kearns, and No. 4 L%aughridge,
good wells; Kennedy & Fitzgibbons'
No. 8 Ramsey, 20 barrels; Myers &
Brown, No. l Arbaugh, 20 barrels;
rels; Berea Grit Oil Company's well on
the Vickers Case, so barrels; the Ken
nedy farm well, one and a half miles
north, is making five barrels. The
three last wells Jennings & Co. drilled
in on the Custer farm are good pro-
ducers. Pottorf Bros we'll on the
Dunlap lot since shot is showing for
100 barrels; Snider Oil Company, on
Sommerville lot, 60 barrels; English
& Milletts well is showing fine since
shot; Lecompte, Brnner, & Co.'s No. 6
W. H. Scott is a good well since clean
ed out; Connotten Valley, on J. Hill
place, is making rs barrels since clean
ed; Bailey & Co., on the Panhandle
railroad, and Meyers & Browns No. 2
Kearns and No. l w. E. Fowler are
producers; Groves, Staples & Co., on
Panhandle property, so barrels; L. J..
Meldren's No. 2 Sargent and No. 2
Given are producers.
A derrick belonging to the Dennison
Oil Company, at this place, was the
last thing that has caught fire and
burned. H. A. Snyder, who discovered
oil here, was touched" for a roll of
$3.50 Is he was boarding the train for