Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-12-27
oil Notes.
OIL NOTES FROM VARIOUS
FIELDS.
FIELDS.


Reports from the lower Southwest
fields yesterday were very light and If
old Saint Nicholas dropped q note in
any of the local operators socks, tell
ing him he had new gusher down in
West Virginia, the good NEWS was not
given out. The guages of the produc-
ing wclls at Sand Fork were as fol-
lows: Cocley heirs No /, 343 barrels;
No. 2, 10 barrels John Copley No. /,
12 barrels: No 8, 273 barrels; Turner
Nos. and 2, $50 barrels; Mullady Nos.
and 2, 800 barrels; Cox Nos. l and 2,
65 barrels; Reynolds No l. So barrels;
McCrca No. 1, 20 barrels; Bohan No 1,
% barrels; total 1.7S0 barrels
In che shallow sand territory Pleas
ants county, the Eclipse Oil company
has completed it's No. IA, on the G. B.
Haddox farm and has duster. X. T..
Edwards G. Tudor nave completed No.
| IL on the NJ. e. Bachman farm and
have 10-barrel producer. Tho Cook
Bros Oil company's Nc. l. and W.
Bills Is good for 25 barrels a day.
Tho White Farm Oil company has
! completed No. 10 on the White farm
and has "a 10-barrel pumper. Fran
schmidt Bros. No. Z on the F. P. Brown
farm is good for So barrels a day.
! The Sunderman Farm Oil companys
| No. 8 On the J. II. Sunderman farm is
dry In the Cow Run sand, The Borch
OTIS Oil company has completed it's No.
en- the R. Reynolds farm and has a
very small pumper.
The Octo Oil company has completed
| a test we'll on the J. Robinson farm and
has a duoter, and its No. 2 on the Isaac
PeJhel 1arm is another of the same
kind. Ishcrwcod and Reesor have
completed No 4 on the L, w Roby
farm and have a 15-barrel pumper.
Ii Lafayette district, the American
Oil and Development company and the
South Penn Oil Company have COM
pleted No. 4 on the Simly Wagner
farm and have a duster in the Cow
Run sand. Metzger, Russell & Co
had the same kind of luck at their No
8 on the T. Hanlin farm, in the Mead
district, Tyler county.
At Barnsmith. Belmont county, W.
D. Black, agent, has completed test
we'll on the b. Burcher farm and has
a show fer a small pumpcr.
In the Homework district. Columbi-
ana county, Morgan G. Co. have com
| pleted No. 1 on the Samuel Redmond
farm and ]. w. Winger & Co., have
completed No. 1 On the William Essic
| farm. Both are busters
SAND FORK DISAPPOINTMENT
The Pitstburg Times says: More
than dozen wells, producing among
them less than 1.SO0 barrels of oil
| daily is the disappointing record of
the Sand Fork field in West Virginia, .
field that started off with one well
which for weeks did several times that
ty for a true. Its large yield of oil in
new end unknown region led to the
hope that something of dimensions had
been opened. There was that fatality
about the Gordon sand wells which re-
suits so frequently in one-well pools,
but Sand Fork appeared to have some
of the traits of a bigger thing The
Turner we'll helped to strengthen the
presumption that the pool would be
extensive, but it was followed by 9TH
ers that soon turned the tide of eX-
pectation. Sand Fork looks now like
further emphasis of the theory that
West Virginia is full OF oil sand, but
that it lies in circumscribed areas
Lewis county, like the rest of the state
is spotted. 1t is undoubtedly rich
region, for already several profitable
pools have been opened. But there Is
less and less likelihood with every
successive strike that new Mcdonald
or a new Bradford is to be found
By persistent effort the oil man find
enough new territory with each yea
to supply the crude oil needed for thu
years demands. but it has been ;
number of years now since his energ!
added materially to the surplus abov,
ground. Yet the widening of the hori
zon puts the industry on more certai,
basis, for the old pools take a lonl
time to drain Bradford is yet fer
tile field even with it's small wells
Butler county is a profitable region
The old fields and the new ones to
geuher keep up with the requirements
but either alone would be unable to d.
it,