Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-15

fact that the world stands ready to
take 10000 barrels of Lima oil and
90, 900 barrels of Pennsylvania oil
every day so long as the product
can be supplied at the present
market prices. And If drilling
1850 wells a month will accomplish
this result they will continue to be
drilled so long as the producer can
find anything that looks like a
favorable location whereon to erect
a rig. Fifty-fve wells a day In
wolves a heavy expenditure In com
parison with results attained bu. 1t
means a great deal to every section
of the oil business and TO every
other department of industry. Be.
sides the army of drillers, tool
dressers and oil we'll workers of
every kind Is another army of toll
ers engaged In manufacturing
drilling tools, boilers, engines, pipe
and the thousand and one fittings
necessary for drilling wells and
caring for the oil produced. And
then there Is still another army OF
boarding house keepers, bakers,
grocers and merchants of every
class that accompanies the
other two armies and supplies
them with necessities In the way Of
food and clothing.
With the gradual exhaustion Of
the Eastern oil fields as sources OF
the supply of high grade petroleum
adventurous operators have turned
their attention 10 remote localities
with more or less encouraging re.
suits. For many years 1t has been
something more than an accepted
theory that the oil fields of Penn
sylvania and West Virginia extend
ed down through Kentucky and
Tennessee. Both States have pro-
duced small quantities OF oil for
many years, but for a long time
operators have dlspaired OF any
extensive developments that would
give up their oil as abundantly as
the neighboring regions to the
Northeast. Thus far developments
to Eastern Kentucky have been Of
rather an erratlc character and no
pools of any great extent have been
opened up. Within the past tew
years Central and Western Ken
lucky have attracted considerable
attention but the formation from
which the oil Is obtained are radi-
cally different from those IN West
Virginia and Pennsylvania. While
a large number OF wells have been
drilled In Wayne, Kuox, Bath
and Rowan counties, little
was known as to their pro-
ductive capabilities or lasting pow.
ers. The advent of pipe line In
to these sections since the first OF
the year has provided a market for
the oil and given the operators
great encouragement and hopes for
the future. The June field report
shows Sc wells completed In Ken
lucky and Tennessee and at the
same time the pipe line runs have
nearly doubled. The runs for May
were ee2 barrels and for June 1,774
barrels day. Of course some OF
this increase doubtless comes from
oil produced In previous months
and stored In tanks at the wells.
There were 473,5oo barrels of Ken.
lucky oil stored In the iron tanks OF
the pipe line companies at the close
of June.
The first report from the new oil
districts beyond the Mississippi
shows that so wells were completed
In Kansas and the Indian Territory
during June. Owing to inadequate
pipe line facilities a large number
of these are shut In and not produc-
Ing any oil. That the production
has been increasing and will con-
tinue to increase Is no longer a
questionable matter. The capa-
bilities of the Kansas oil fields can
not be fully tested in this respect
until all the wells are connected up
and sufficient tankage provided TO
store their production. But 1t ap-
pears that 1t Is from Kansas rather
than Kentucky that the world will
receive the larger amount OF Its
'uture supply of crude petroleum
for illuminating purposes.-Der-
rick.
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