The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-26


The past week In the petroleum In
dustry has brought nothing new 70
light. The feld conditions practically
remain unchanged, although some very
Important and material changes are to
be noted in the extension of the deep,
shallow and Big lnjun formations. For
a long time the question has been de-
buted as to whether campbell's Run
would furnish more good territory to
the northeast, but 1t has never been
settled until the past week. Il iS now
demonstrated beyond doubt that the
campbell's Run extension does exist, as
shown by the South Penn on com-
pany's big test well drilled in on the
RUFUS Belle farm, located 1000 feet in
advance Of the Battelle OIL company's
good production on the stronsiver farm,
ana which Is a good paying wen. It
was thought when the Battelle on
Company struck their big well that It
vas only q scratch and would add no
glory to the campbell's Run district,
but since then the South Penn OIL
Company found a well 1000 feet ahead
which is surely Of great Importance,
and has opened up large amount Of
territory that VIII undoubtedly produce
some hig wells and large production.
The advent Of this well shows almost
concIusively that there is connecting
link between the deep sand production
of Campbell'S Run and the develop
ment "a Greene county upon which the
South Penn Oil Company has been la
boring for years. and to develop has
spent many fortunes.
Attention again Is particularly called
to Lewis county, w. Va, which, from
the way the wind now blows, y deStir-
ed to 30 the scene Of active and import
ant operations this season. Upon this
point the writer touched last week, but
was not then in possession Of informa-
tion which hi has since gained, and
which shows that before the close of 1900,
Lewis county win be the busiest point
in the great southwest. Many OF the
old SCHOOL operators Ind bthtpg faith
that in the Camden district would be
developed Big ID1un production equal
to that OF the noted Sistersville pool
While the Southern OIL Ccmpany's No.
/ Camden has been placed In the catn-
CORY Of freaks, It Is their opinion that a
well that will make as big production
as It did for several days is not exc
actly freak. At NIL events, prep0ra-
lions are being made on an extensive
scale, and drilling both for salt and
Big Injun sand productions. Last
week on the S. D. Camden farm the
Southern Oil Company scored n forty
barrel producer as a starter. In this
pool Stlle Bros. Company have in
two or three wells already drilled, de-
veloped the important fact that salt
sand is productive and will yield q big
production II the drilling Is rushed
The Wolf Summit and Jarvis field
pools continue to hold first place In ac-
tivIty and interest to the southwest
district. This district has q remarkable
history so far as staying qualities are
concerned and the number Of big wells
produced. Eighteen or twenty wells
are making over one hundred barrels n
dny, and 1t Is not likely, II the story re-
corded in one or two wells drilled last
week IL to be relied upon, that Wolf
Summit will produce many more big
wells. There Is considerable good ter
ritory left, but some time will elapse
before It will be drilled to finish This
week the South Penn OH Company had
particularly good luck In scoring 200
barrel well on the p. G. Williams farm,
said to be the best natural producer
ever found in all the dlggins In Jarvis
Vile or Wolf Summit Its location,
however, Is inside Of the defined line.
and. therefore, It's Importance ID only as
In its calIbre. The same company also
corralled a fifty barrel producer to the
south Of Wo;f Summit on the Alex.
Stonestreet farm.
The Garner district Is calling for
some attention and the volume Of OPP
GRAFTON Is increasing, The gauges Of
the wells are far above what the
trade think they Rre, and for It's benefit
they are here given: The South Penn
oil Gompany's No. Garner, 1856 bar
Tels; Carter & Trees No, Higgins, 100
barrels: Linden OIL Company's No, 2
Yates, l04 barrels, and Stenden OIL
Company No. Higgins, rs acres, 11S
barrels! Here are four wells making
over 800 barrels. that the majority of
the trade little dream Of, but since the
completion of the last well in the
Higgins farm the chances are that
this number will be augmented at no
distant day, as tho new well has un-
doubtedly opened up considerable new
territory
Last week Burning Springs boomed
and brought forth = twenty-hve-barre
pumper from the Big Injuu formation.
This belongs 10 Leham, Packet & Co.,
and is located on the Muller farm. AT
Burning Springs there is quite little