West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-02-13
TIE KENTUCKY OIL FIELDS.


Stone got her two small wells al
Rock House, but the hole was dry.
Midway between Bob's Bar and
the Lacey well. well known as
the Turner we'll, was said to have
been ruined by a shot, the torpedo
having exploded prematurely. 1t
Is said that this well was good for
7 barrels. Owing to the lay of the
land and water 1t has not been pos
sible to get extremely close to
Bob's Bar. It's on the Obey river,
and the first we'll drilled on the 9th
er side of the river was Danna's
dry well of the Southern Oil COM
pany. The leases of the Bob's Bar
owners shut off other operators on
all sides. The strange thing Is that
the new company has never made
location close to Bob's Bar. It Is
drilling another we'll now on an ad-
jacent farm, after drilling two wells
a mile north and one a mile and a
half west without much result.
Pail Mall In Fentress county, r.
miles northeast of Bob's Bar, has a
new hope. The Fentress and Pick
EFT Oh company brought q well In
there at ,o7o feet. 1t was this well
that the newspapers reported about
two months ago as being down r.
400 feet and 200 Dbl. we'll. Both
statements are incorrect. It Is
probably a IS Dbl. we'll and at not
an unsual depth in comparison with
Kentucky.
Gent & Frye drilled a we'll IL
miles west of Bob's Bar and got lu-
bricating oil at Go feet. It Is s
barrel we'll.
Wiser Bros. drilled one mile
south of Gernt & Frye and got a
small producer of lu bricating oil.
The Percy we'll. two miles north of
Gernt & Frye was dry.
The Padgett we'll completed last
November near the lower Lacy
we'll, Is said to be good for II bbls.
If the water can be exhausted. 1t
has been pumping, but the pump Is
too small to do this work. 1t Is
thought that larger pump will
make we'll out Of 1t.
The W. T. Murray we'll, near
Spurrier, has oil In 1t. 1t Is said to
be small producer. The South
Penn OIL company's we'll south of
Spurrier was drilled 1909 feet. 1t
became flooded by blue lick water
and was abandoned.
The Rock House wells, drilled
originally by Miss Stone, have ca
pacity of I or 2 bbls. They are
about 1000 feet deep.
The Henry Oil company's we'll.
at Cricket creek two miles from
Bob's Bar, was dry. 1t was drilled
500 feet.
The Interstate Petroleum COM
pany's three wells, named above,
were all drilled last year and all
are dry.
J. Cusick drilled two small wells
on the west, all south of Bob's Bar
about mile and a half and within
speaking distance of the Interstate
Petroleum company's last dry hole.
Both of these wells are small pro.
ducers, and were originally pur
chased by the Interstate Petroleum
company.
Duke & Appleby's second dry
hole Is one half mile back of CT
sick's development.
The Azic Oh company, southwest
of Bob's Bar on the east fork OF
Obey river Is small producer.
Colonel W. G. Strubbe, famous
now as Sunnybrook's producer
drilled near the Cumberland moun-
tains, down In this country, close to
the location made by the Forest
Oil company, nearly IS years ago.
1t was probably the first we'll In
this whole district and was abou,
half a mile from the failure of Glen
mary. The Glenmary people have
not we'll yet. They say there
was plenty of oil In 1t when Strubbe
got through, but no facilities 70,
getting 1t away. Recently a COM
pany has been formed In Glenmary
to clean out this old Strubbe well
and put 1t to pumping.
Overton county, Tennessee, has
a record of small wells and smalle,
wells. running about the same as
the record for Fentress and Pickett
except that 1t has had no Bob's
Bar nor Lacey nor Pail Mall.
Twelve wells have been drilled Ii
Overton county, one of them being
an isolated wildcat which was
drilled by the South Penn Oil com
pany.
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