The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-05-24
IMPORTANT FIELD.
Section of Monongalia County
is full Of Wealth.


Greatest strikes of the Year Have been
Made IL this County Gross Roads
Territory has Proven to be Very
Rich Merganfown People Have
some very Fine Producers The
EIlhu Eddy well Bonanza.
MANNINeToN, May 20-This city
is really the center of oil operations
in West Virginia, but the develop
ment has extended so far into the
country in every direction that peo-
pie now very seldom see anything of
the work Years ago all work in the
Warrington field proper was right
around the town, but to-day il is all
from six TO fifteen miles distant. All
the country between the town and the
farthest corners OF the present field
limits has been drilled over and the
greater part of 1t was productive from
one of the five sands that have poured
out the golden fluid for somany years.
One advantage this territory has over
all others is its great staying quail
ties. All the producing sands have
been producing for eight and ten years
and while the old wells in most cases
are only light producers now they are
making oil enough to pay for pump
Jag.
1t is the most expensive field in the
country to work owing to the great
depth of the OIL The Big Injun sand
is 500 or 500 feet farther from the top
of the ground than in the other fields
and the Gordon sand is not found any
place under 5000 feet and sometimes
wells are 3, 300 and 3, 400 feet. This
makes every well cost in the neighbor-
hood Of $40, 900 under the best work
ing conditions, while adverse circum-
stances add very materially to the ex-
pense.
The South Penn is always hunting
new fields and right now they have
probably more than half a dozen i'm
por3ant tests under way in Marion
aud the adjoining counties. They
are of course the heaviest operators
ON account of the great expense OF
drilling wells and having most OF the
territory leased they are devoting a
vast sum of money in the search.
Wherever this corporation has a
monopoly on the leases they are slow
to develop but where they have oppo-
sition they can rush things through.
A GUsHER POOL.
The Cross Roads pool, which is bet
ter known as an extension of the
Campbell's run pool Is the greatest
discovery of the year in deep sand ter.
ritory. McDermott and company and
the Battelle oil company are rivals In
the pool and work has been going on
rapidly. 1t is the only real gusher
pool in the state. Half a dozen OF
more wells had been drilled prior to
this month and they were all of mod
crate size, but last week McDermott
and company made sensational
strike on the Eddy little in advance
of previous work to the west When
the well got to the top Of the sand II
flowed at the rate Of 20 barrels an
hour. Deeper drilling increased The
production to 80 barrels an hour and
now it is doing very close to 1,00C
barrels day.
The South Penn, as stated yester.
day, completed a small well on tn,
Elihu Eddy farm adjoining the Nc
Dermott gusher and got another al
most equal to the first gusher. Ii
may make over 1000 barrels day Il
reports are true. 1t also is slightly
in advance of the first wells and show:
small addition to the field which
promises to surpass in productivenes'
the original pool. There is plenty o.
room for expansion in two direction
and all are looking for an extensive
pool and big money maker. 1t II
the most active part of the entire
Warrington district and many rigs
are going up around the two gushers
McDermott and company are near
ing the sand with well ON the Gar
rison Bros. farm just west OF theil
Eddy gusher and they expect to have
it completed before the end of thu
week. In the same general direction
the South Penn will complete a wei
on the VIM. Hanes farm by the first
of next week. These two wells ought
| to show whether the two Eddy gush
ers are freaks in an ordinary pool Of
whether the west extension is one o
the rich pools that have made the dis
trict famous. The latter theory il
the generally accepted belief. Thu
South Penn has two or three othe
wells drilling east OF the Eddy.