The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-01-23
GASY AND OILY.
Jets and Sprays from Various
Fields.

Fields.
A company calling itself the Phil
adelphia Oil Company has been tax
ing few leases in Marion, Dod-
bridge, Harrison and a few other
counties. Hon. II. S. White, agent
for the Guffey Company, of Pitts
burgh, enquired of Secretary of State,
Walker, concerning the Philadel-
phia company and received the fol-
lowing reply:
Philadelphia Oil Company, not
chartered here, never heard of it be-
fore.
HENRY S. WALKER,
Sec'y State.
This goes very far towards show
ing them up as sharks, and they will
bear watching.
We are glad to learn, says the
West Union Record, that j. M.
Guffey q Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa, who
have undertaken to develop the great
Oil and Gas belt in w. Va, have
concluded to extend their opera
tons into Doddridge county, and if
our land owners are as liberal as
those of Tyler, Wetzel, Marshal, and
others, we will secure a thorough
test of the country. We learn that
this company propose boring to the
third or Goodan sand that is prov
ing SO valuable in Washington
county, Pa. They give the farmer a
good share free to his credit in pipe
lines and pay for Gas if they find it.
H. S.White, of Bolton, VIVA, who has
charge of the company's interests,
has begun leasing in Doddridge
county, with the assistance of Lewis
Yeager, G. A. Jones, and j. C. Con-
nelly of Marshall county, and Capt.
J. Donohue, c. p Hudson, Warner
Stutler, j. p. Orr, DR.. A. Ashburn,
G.. w. Ice. and others of Doddridge
county. His brother Prof l. c.
White who has been very successful
in locating Oil and Gas, and who is
connected with the West Va. Uni
versity, directs this capital here, and
the money necessary for testing the
country, that will be spent among
us whether they find oil or not, will
benefit our people some. They ask
for nothing free, they will spend
great deal of money in the prospect
il a May we not be on the eve of a
genuine oil boom? Let it come.
The natural gas excitement has
struck Doddridge county.
1t is reported that the Burning
Springs oil field will be re-opened
soon. 1t is situated in Writ county
ON the Kanawha river about thirty
five miles from Parkersburg. 1t is
believed by experts that the field
was by no means exhausted when it
was abandoned; indeed the wells
were yielding $500 barrels of oil per
day, but it was worth only sixty
cents per barrel, and it cost nearly
that much to get it to market. New
wells will not be bored, but the old
ones re-opened.
The Standard Oil Company, the H.
c. Prick Coke Company and the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company are said
to have formed a syndicate to utilize
the millions of feet of gas that daily
go to waste in the Connellsville coke
region and pipe it to Philadelphia,
using the right-of-way of the Penn
sylvania road. But the report is
believed by practical gas men to be
a fabrication. Several years ago, an
expert had a survey and careful
estimate made Of the cost of laying
pipes from Connellsville to Pitts
burgh, and found that even for that
short distance the cost would be too
great.
A new oil well has been struck |
two miles northeast of Washington,
Pa, which produces 600 barrels per
day. Drilling is progressiong at 10 |
other new wells in that section.
The Courier says that the pipe
line men have leased over 10000
acres Of gas and oil territory west
and southwest of Washington, ex-
tending through Canton, Buffalo,
East Finley and West Finley town
ships, as far as the West Virginia
State line. They are drilling on the
Widow Clark farm, and also on the
farms of John and Harvey Clark.
They have put up an iron oil tank
with a capacity of $4,000 barrels ON
the farm of Gen. John Hall and are
shipping off every gallon of oil that
the field is producing. 1t may be
said that thus far the Standard has
captured all of the oil that Washing
ton county has produced.
The citizens of Canonsburg have
appointed a committee to secure the
expulsion Of all officials who refuse
to stop the distribution CT natural
gas in the town until the system in
vogue is improved.
ArnettsviIle.
ARNETTsvILLE, Jan. 12.-It does
not matter how notorious a liar a
man is, if he will say it is cold now
he is supposed to be truthful man.
We had about II inches of snow, and
the mercury stood II degrees below
zero this morning. The road is
blockaded between here and Fair
mont. The hacks failed to reach
here IN Saturday On Mnndov hv