The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-27

G51nled AZ god as wheat IL thc
ma no offset these failures the South
m on Company scored iS0-barrel
% the J. c. Smith property In the
0Int Summit deveiOpments. while
we're two or three more completed
f{t Icrent parties Just as good: but
hoy art all located within the limits
o. dtdned territory. Surely the round
tlll week did not end favorahly for a
corllnun ton OF the Wolf Summit and
l1fTllVille boom; It may be the begin-
mig % the end.
lhe downward tendency OF the Fiat
Run deep sand Developments is al9o
forn this week by the completion Of
several very light pr0dueerH. Especially
- this notable on the east side OF de-
Vdlopments. where the good territory
iI1 not looked for and where the South
Fenn oil Company found only a
small. wen In their No. 2 Elizabeth
aaught; a much better producer was
o,ntgted. A very important wild cat
Wen wan finished up the past week By
the oid-time operators, Jennings Bros,
located on the Oliver Miller farm, in
WetEel county. w. Va. More than or
binary interest was taken In the result
81 this venture, as It was thought to be
welt located. and new development was
expected to follow But, as usual, Il
has turned out different, and instead
% finding new territory many acres
have been condemned.
The Shallow Fields.
A interpretive view Of the produce
ing territory n West Virginia shows
that the shallow sand territory in Plea
SAINTS county stands at the head OF the
list The developments in Peasants
county for some time indicate a re-
variable record, both in the callbre
Of 10 wells and extent Of territory.
The little town OF St. Marys is the cen-
ire from which operations in almost
every direction radIates. St, Marys is
really the leading oil centre now along
the Ohio. There are more oil men to
be found here than at any other point,
While a present there Is nOtRbl3
falling of in new work. yet It cannot
be attributed to q lack of available ter
ritofy. but on account OF the almost
impossible condition OF the roads, rem
definy the transporting Of supplies and
material Into the field costly, and to
some locations impossible
The development Of Big Injun sand
wen on town lot in st. Marys caused
no little interest and excitement, and
which may yet lead to quite develop
ment Ia this formation. II was sOme-
thing entirely new for the locality of
the Shallow Sand. and II Is thought
BY q few old-time operators this Big
Iiiun formation at st. Marys viii yet
surprise the trade. The first and only
well Ia this sand has Just been shot
with eighty quarts of glycerlne,, and
the result is a ten-barrel well. Boyd
& Co. are now drilling another Big
Inlun well on the James Barkwell lot
I'VE acres-and are down about $50 feet.
Il y located only It's feet to the east
from the first producer and II favor
able results are obtained other VEN
lures will follow The Boyd & Co. well
ID regarded as quite important, and the
result 10 quite anxiously awaited. AT
ST. Mays is located the old veteran
operator, ]. H. Cadwallader. OF Titus
vine, Pa. who drlfted into ST. Marys n
year ago, dead broke. With no capital
hut his brains he took an old lease no
one else would have, got well drilled
by giving up n half interest In the
IsaSe, and, to the surprise OF the talent,
they found a 300-barrel well. To-day
Mr. Cadwallader Is one OF st. Marys
most prominent operators and has re-
fused $4,000 for his holdings,
There Is nothing particularly new to
report this week from the Lewis coun-
" tleld. The Gates & Co. we'll has
turned out Just as predicted 1t would
last week by the Intelligencer Scout,
and will make twenty-five or thirty
barrel pumper There is big fight in
80 -. M,
faFfn we'll and the South Penn
on Company for the ownership of a
lease on the Taylor farm. which from
present indications will have to be set
tied BY the courts. The new well has
led to the starting of several more
wells, but the best informed oil men
think that the Taylor farm well has
opened up nothing Of Importance and
that q big production from the salt
sand is out OF the question. The re-
ports from the deep sand regions In