The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-26


nne the value and exteht of the ches-
ter Hill feid.
Available lenses command good fE+
.ures. but there are but Few transfers Of
property. as the buyers are In great
preponderance to the sellers. ~
Wolf Summit.
wolf Summit has not this week, nlae
a particularly brilliant record. sm4ll
wells were more in evidence than '6Pr
some time in the past, although y
two very fine producers were Develop
ed. Notably among the prize winners,
may be counted the South Penn sQil
Company, who scored. seventy bdftel
bumper on the j. T. Williams propsFty.
They also completed q light producer
on the Carpenter farm, while JudgeiN,
COTS test venture on the James Dea-
ken farm was of the same stripe 3p gtet
better than eight or ten barrels On stis
sturt-off. The South Penn ollS cpm9
pany practically drew a blank In their
No. 9, Rumble farm, Just where good
producer was expected.
The whiteman ausher.
The greatest surprise Of the past
week was the transforming Of a three
months old producer to a gusher Of the
Arst magnitude. This was the, South
Penn OIL company's Whiteman farm
well, located in the Wallace district
Harrison county, West Virginia. and
about three.fourths Of a mile east from
the Doddrldge county line. on several
occasions attention has been called TO-
the test venture in these columns, as It
has displayed wonderful staying quail
tiles, and being located in distinctively
new territory looked like the forerun-
ner of a pool OF Importance. The
Whiteman farm well was drilled into
the Gordon sand over three months ago
ana when the drill entered the pay
streak the response was for the first
twenty-four hours, over Eve hundred
barrels. 1t settled down In few days
TO a four hundred barrel day gait,
which has ever since been maintained.
In the early part of the week ii was
cleaned out and drilled trihe deeper.
To the great surprise Of the owners the
well began flowing at tremendous
rate and the following twenty-}our
hours put almost 5000 barrels In the
tanks. Since then its production has
declined to seventy-Gve barrels an hour
and is holding at this figure at this
writing. A Pittsburgh paper published
fake report, giving out the .Informa-
ton that the well was producing four
thousand barrels day and had been
making this amount of oil daily t6t the
past three months, but the. fact twas
never learned until the enterpFlsing
representative got on to II. "
That the Wallace district viii be the
next important Gordon sand pool, there
is but little question. A well that VIII
produce four hundred barrels day for
period of ninety days, and then by
stirring UP. make a production Of all
most 1000 barrels, conclusivsly indI-
Gates a prolific sand and that other
good wells abound in this latitude.
Monong&lia County.
A number of very important test
wells were completed this week in the
northeast extension of the noted Camp
bells run district, in Monongnliu coun-
ty. w. Va. They are all expensive
ventures and instead of finding oil de-
veloped a goodly supply of the calorIc
fluid. They were important for the
reason that nearly all practical opera
tors Of the lower southwest lidve for
some time counted upon this localltyas
Astounding in good wells but turning
out differently, large acreage of
hitherto prospective territory has been
condemned. The Battelle OIL Company
were first to complete their No. on the
Milo Strosnlder farm, which was a
strong gasser, and were followed by
the South Penn people completing their
test on the Richard Nichols, and an
other of the same kind on the schriver.
and one on the D. B. Marker farm.
These were all Gordon sanders.
Greene County.
Greene county. (Pa). this week has
remained passive. and nothing now has
been developed. The South Penn Oil
Company are still actively engageda in
Greene county, but their failures In