This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...that most, if not all, of the oil comes from the upper portion of these sands and possibly entirely from the Third. Salt water appears sooner or later in all the producing wells and contrary to what is its action in the Elk City Pool, it here drowns out the wells, many of which are now pumped incessantly in order to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...that most, if not all, of the oil comes from the upper portion of these sands and possibly entirely from the Third. Salt water appears sooner or later in all the producing wells and contrary to what is its action in the Elk City Pool, it here drowns out the wells, many of which are now pumped incessantly in order to keep down the salt water. The pool will doubtless be eventually flooded by salt water, most of which appears to come from the Fourth sand. The general trend of this pool is northeast-southwest. At the time of the writer's visit, in July, 1907, a small amount of drilling was still going on in cautious extensions to the south. On Brush Run, at the western edge of the township, a well (No. 19) on the David Fulton farm is said to have produced gas. Well No. 20 on the Corbett Mill tract half a mile farther to the east was unproductive. No record could be found for either of these wells, or for the W. H. Cooper No. 1 Well (No. 21) on Brush Run, threequarters of a mile farther to the east. The elevation of Well 21 is about 1,325 feet, but it furnishes a copious flow of good, fresh water which is said to come from the mountain sand. A mile farther to the east on Brush Run, a number of wells have been found with more or less gas in the Salt or Murrysville sand, and possibly in the Bradford sand. In this group, Wells 22 and 23 on the D. T. Kirkpatrick and the C. A. Rankin farms respectively, produce from' the Murrysville sand at a depth of about 750 feet. The initial rock or closed pressure of the gas in Well 23, October 30, 1897, was about 250 pounds. On October 12, 1905, this was still as much as 67 pounds and varied 27 pounds from that of Well 22. Well 24 on the Clark Potter farm was also a gas producer in the salt sand. It is now abandoned, but contin...
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