Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-23
TIE REACTION n SC|0.
Production IS Falling OF ard Pros
poets are Gloomy.
THE PEACEABLE COMMUNITY HAS
BEEN ALL TORN UP, AND THE
COLLEGE, AND MANY LEADING
CITIZENS Are PROBABLY GONE
FOREVER NEWS OF THE OIL
PRODUCTION AND DEVELOP
MENT IN ALL THE OTHER
FIELDS.


PRODUCTION AND DEVELOP
MENT IN ALL THE OTHER
FIELDS.
Special to the Register
Scio, o., April 22.-This town has en-
joyed the biggest boom of any
| In Eastern Ohio, and is now
seeing the reaction, also, and
the ebbing tide is carrying away much
of that which was gained on the food.
Scio has experienced rapid transforma-
tons, from quiet old town, having a
successful college, into city with all
it's vices thrown in with the hurry and
hustle, and now it is retrograding.
Scio has been overdone and hundreds
are seen standing about listlessly,
while restaurants, stores, dram shops,
etc., are experiencing the tired feeling.
Very few who invested in the territory
have pulled out what they put in, and
many are kept busy figuring out when
their wells, with decreased production,
| will pay out. Business boomers admit
with sorrow that there. is too abund-
ant supply of their commodities for ex-
listing demand. The glowing promises
| for the field have not been realized.
Such is the history and present cOndl-
| ton of the derrick-Overwhelm and
| morally wrecked town of Scio after a
| winters debauch in oil and its Access
series, and in the meantime many OF
| it's best citizens have removed and the
college may be lost forever.
i The Scio field has been disappointing
| to many in that there was no extension
| to the field and the narrOwneSS OF the
| pool has surprised many operators.
The craze to get in led many to make
mistakes, and they crowded derrick
against derrick, so that one we'll drain
ed the other and neither can pay out.
| Had it not been for this crazed crowd
| ing many leases would have been pro-
| fitable In spite of this condition,
which is plain to all, few out of way
spots in the town, all that are left are
now to hold a derrick. Several dust
ers that came in this week settled once
and for all the hopes of finding an ex-
| tension.
Stio oil is dark amber and of 43
gravity, and the competition between
| the Sun Oil Co. and the Ohio Pipe Line
| Co. here has sent the purchasing price
up ten cents. The Sun Company con-
| tinues to pay the most money There
| is talk of Cleveland parties going ahead
| with their refinery here, for which they
purchased ground, and if they do COM
petition will be lively.
Pleasant weather has given an i'm
petus to operations and teamsters are
| smiling and operators are going after
| the grease industriously The results
| of operations this week have been as
follows:
Jennings & Co.. on J. W. Nixon's
| farm, to the south, is fair we'll, and
| the finding of oil in this well will cause
! other locations to be made; Short, Adj
ans & Dunn have buster three and a
| half miles southeast on the J. E. Nc
Peck farm; J. M. Guffey & Co.. have
completed buster on the Wilson
| farm, but a showing of oil was found
in the salt sand 1t is claimed that the
Nichols, Barnsdall & Co. we'll, on the
Whitaker farm, which is said to be a
buster, has not been drilled in. at any
rate it has never been shot. The Baird
we'll, which cost Rawley & Scott $4,000
on account of loss of casing, sticking of
tools and numerous mishaps, has been
plugged and abandoned; in its palmiest
days the we'll never made over II bar
rels. Milliken & Co. No. 4, w. & J.. f.
Right of Way, since shot, gives promise
& Johnston's No. on John hollands
of being good we'll. Forsythe, Davis
borough's farm, is a good we'll since
shot The Adena Oil Co., on Smith lot,
is a good producer. The wells on the
town lots of Jesse Croghan, Mrs. Lucy
Christian, John Carpenter and VIM
Heron, were shot and will make good
producers. The projection is now es-
timated at $500 barrels daily. The CAL
colt well, to the north, and the Trus-
sell we'll, northwest, are failures.
One operator says. '"This can be termed
the Soio field, as it has seen it's limit and
az wells on the outskirts are proving
busters" All oil tanks have been ditched
as precaution against fire. The streets
are torn up by the contractors who are
building the water works plant. Electric
light and sewerage VIII claim the atten-
ton of the citizens next. The Connection
Valley Oil stock IS booming, as SIS shares
are worth 500 They nave fourteen pro-
ducers and several drilling wells inside
defined lines. Trains on the Pan Handle
and w. & L. E pass through an avenue of
derricks at points, due to the fighting Of
rival companies to offset the work OF the
others. On the right side Of the Pan Han
Gle S. Bailey. Jr has wells drilling to
offset the Lawrence Oil Co. Bailey has
wells on the left side where he is after
Myers & Brown. Kennedy & Fitzgibbons
along the W. g. L. E. are after the Law
renee OIL Co.
Operations have been started in the vi