Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-19

and they claim it to be of the very
best quality. Large deposits OF coal
are found i'll the vicinity of the town.
which will be mined in the lea future,
and 1t is claimed to be the best grade
Of coking coal in the State. The Pitts
burg a can be gotten by shafting
200 feet, which will be done as soon
as other operations in this line are
| begun.
Warrington is probably the largest
| gas centre in the world and supplies
most of West Virginia, a portion of
Pennsylvania and a large part of Ohio.
Extensive preparations are being made
to pipe gas to Pittsburg from this field.
The main line will be two feet in diam
eter and will supply many large manu-
featuring plants in that city. The
State officers of the South Penn Oil
Company and the Euraka Pipe Line
Company are located here, also the
head officers of the Hartman Oil Com
pany, the Burt Oil Company, the Vir-
ginia Torpedo Company and the West
Virginia Torpedo & Powder Company.
The Downs Station of the Eureka Pipe
Line Company, located in Warrington,
is n of the largest pump stations in
the world. All the oil produced in
West Virginia passes through this sta
ton.
Oil was first found in the Manning
ton field in 1889. A test well was put
down by a home company, but it was
bought out by the South Penn Com
pany and plugged. The Burt family,
who owned a farm in the outskirts of
the town, put down a we'll on their
farm against the advice of biologists
and every one else. The we'll came in
a gusher and was named the Daisy
well, and is still producing oil. The
credit of Mannington's oil development
belongs to the Burt Oil Company, and
the Gordon sand should have been
named the Burt sand, as it has always
been customary to name a new sand
after the man who first strikes it. The
Warrington field is thirty miles long
and fifteen miles wide. There are
nearly 1000 wells in this field pro-
ducing from the Big Injun and the Cor
don sands. The oil is found at a
depth of 5000 feet, or over half a mile,
which brings the cost of drilling a sin
gle well to $4,000. Very few busters
are found in this field, and the produc-
ing wells gotten are generally very
lasting ones. No producing wells have
been gotten in the shallow sands, al
though some showing of oil has been
found in these sands. From the geo.
logical formations in this vicinity it is
believed that oil will be found at a
greater depth than the Gordon sand,
but so far a hemp cable has not been
found strong enough to enable them to
reach a certain depth. At present,
hO"NNCi q COZ 10 OC4l5 maui dUOuL
two miles from the city, and a new
cable clamp, recently patented by G. F.
Rigby, used on the new wire cable,
will enable drillers to reach a depth
of one mile.
Many outsiders are under the i'm
preston that the Warrington field is
fast becoming a thing Of the past, but
such is not the case, the production be-
ing gradually on the increase, and
prospects grow brighter daily. The
South Penn Oil Company unloaded
ninety car loads of oil we'll supplies
here last week, and all the oil COM
panies have large stocks on hand than
ever before in the history of the devel-
opment and a great part of the time
are unable to supply the demand.
Warrington as the centre of large oil,
coal and gas fields, will undoubtedly
keep her place as one of the best in
land towns in the State of West Vir-
ginia.