The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-14
AIN lMPORTAI!'.NI'lI,,;, !.
EDEYELOPEM6NTS
IN OIL III J. D. DO NJ j. |.
A Well in Doddridge County in the,
Gordon Sand Opens Up Sig
= Miles Of Territory.
PROSPECTSLAST WEEK BRIGHT.
For Better Prices, but the New Dis
covery is Another Setback
for the Fraternity

Field developments durinS-the past
week. while not OF sensational char
acter are certainly highly Irportant
and likely to change the situation as
compared to the outlook atithc close Of
last week to Il marked degree When
the bearsh situation. which had pre-
vailed for the, past month, bad given
| way to brightsrfapd more hoprful out
look. Ordinary producers chad taken
the place OF big wells and gushars. some
of the large producers were showing q
remarkable decline, and one or two OF
the old POOLS responsible 1ur large
daily production Indicated SEdrainage.
and Upon the whole the prddqcers be-
gan 10 feei+that the end OF adverse con-
dtions at hand and that the big
production that had been f6llsd up by
tho development of prollhg EterrItory
was thing of, the past.
But this has in n measure been
changed by the Developments this week.
AT least Indications at this writing
pointsthat way. Not that ,hA% gushers
'wcre'found or that the coniSlated wells
showed a larger daily aveS1gs produc-
ton. hut by reason of therdiscovery OF
q new we'll OF more than Culinary cali
bre located In the deep or Gordon sand
formation In, West Virginia. : Had the
discovery been made in any other for
nation, so much Importance would not
have been attached, to the new find. The
new discovery ,was.made by Jhe Carter
OIL Company, located upon the I. n.
Rifier farm, fully six miles TO the south.
west from the South Peun'Oi COM
panyis noted susher upon.-ths White
man. farm, Wallace district. and in
Doddrldge county.
The sbear element OF the trade are
putting forth the argument that the
late discovery. has without. question
. opened Up six miles Of CONTINUOUS Cor
don sand territory and II orerated with
the same energy showed elsewhere. will
long produce sufficient oil to meet the
worlds demands and maintain for q
Ions time present largeatisily average
output. It Is not the calibre of the well
that has changed mattersYS much as /,
is the fear OF what the Territory will
produces. The Mathematician well is
taken as a criterion OF wha; the digging
will amount 10 between Sthat famous
well and the Carter OIL Company's new
find. the record of which has. but few
equals in southwest Developments. This
well Is over four or Ave months old and
) has maantained the largest daily: aver
Il age production OF any well found in
sWfst,,VIrginia for long t!me!ti' ~
. III 10 A Big Discovery. nov
The Carter OIL Company's well start
ed off at better than $50 barrels day
and has not yet'been drilled In. 1t is
the opinion Of well Informed operators
in che southwest district that when the
drill Is sent deeper into TIL. sand 4 ma
II terIal Improvement viii be shown
Here Is a new condition of affairs no;
"a looked for. and even II not speedily de.
" veloped will be bear ito the better
market FOR crude. Although the exper-
4 mental drill has been ACTIVE In nlmos,
every locality Of the prospective oil re-
gions this. Is the first rcalstansib!e re-
suit for the development OF an Import
ant pnol that has been, In the pas,
twelve months II not lonsir. And 1t is
predicted. too, that the Gaf3er Oil Com
pany's well will open up more good ter
rltory to the southwest, as 1t Is nov q
settled fact this Is the direction In
Z which the belt runs frum the initial
: WhIteman farm well. but 'just how far
y beyond Mr.. Carriers strik,, 1t extends
Z an opinion has not beanTentured
y AS all or nearly all this territory Is
. held by the South Penn Oil Company
y 1t is not likely that 1t wilfIbc developed
y rapidly and a flood OF OF! produced. Ir
II this same district the s4i1th Penn or
d Company this week cohip1.,ed quite ar
important well upon ethn ]. Bartle,
1 farm. located one mile and a half to the
Z northeast of the Whiteman farm well
4 which Is good for thirty or thirty-fivt
barrels day. This was purely test
well. and since the Carifr Company's
| we'll came in as 1t has 1t shows
the good territory lies to the southwest
AEd yet the chances OF finding big pro.
{ duccrs between the Wliiteman farm
4 gushcr and the South Pehn's thirty OF
thlrty-live barrel well are fairly good
J and 1t will not be the slaast SURPRISING
3 to see just such thing come to pass.
Wolfe Summit has cutno. conspicuous
figure this week, and In fact, the poo
has hardly maintained IL. past good re.
: cord. ID
J. VI. Gufrcy completed his test well
{ located upon the Daniaf Ioughncr farm
in the northeast extansion. and afte,
being shot, 1t is not better than thlr.
~ barrel well. This result was quite =
disappointment not oplynio Mr.. Gurrey
aud his associates. but, e others rs vel
holding territory in this latitude, which
was an expensive acquisition to thC!,
possessions. They waycthey had figured
matters out. better thlGsa were expect,
I'd. bu, the drill has Again clearly de.
monst"a,ed that the theoretical and
Practical do not always Connect, At al
events this venture shows the value OF
the territory Is not qs.- great as was
placed upon 1t and that In making fu.
ture locations caution and care Will b.
exercised. fdNt
Tho JnrvIgvliin and ~ N, yI',If, Co.,