Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-05-20
IMPORTANT FIELD.
Section of Monongalia County
is full of Wealth

Made In this County Cross Roads
Territory has Proven TO be Very
Rich Morgantown People Have
Some very Fine Producers-The
Elihu Eddy well a Bonanza.
MANNINGToN, 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 1t 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 it was productive from
one of the five sands that have poured
out the golden tluid for somany years.
One advantage this territory has over
all others Is It's 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
ing.
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 600 feet farther from the top
OF the ground than in the other aelas
and the Gordon sand is not found any
place under 5000 feet and sometimes
wells are 1900 and 3,400 feet. This
makes every well cost In the neighbour
hood of $40, 900 under the best work
ing conditions, while adverse eireum-
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 Inn
portant tests under way in Marion
and 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 deyoting
vast sum OF money in the search
Wherever this corporation has
monopoly on the leases they are slow
to develop but where they have oppo-
sition they can rush things through.
GUsHER POOL.
The Crossroads 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 dozen or
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 a little in advance
of previous work to the west. When
the well got TO the top OF the sand 1t
flowed at The rate Of 20 barrels an
hour. Deeper drilling increased the
production to 30 barrels an hour and
now it is doing very close to 1000
barrels a day.
The South Penn, as stated yester-
day, completed small we'll on the
Eihu Eddy farm adjoining the Nc
Dermott gusher and got another al
most equal to the first gusher. 1t
may make over |, ZOO barrels day If
reports are true. 1t also is slightly
in advance of the first wells and shows
a small addition to the field which
promises TO surpass in productiyeness
the original pool. There is plenty of
room for expansion in two directions
and all are looking for an extensive
pool and a big money maker. 1t is
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 their
Eddy gusher and they expect to have
it completed before the end of the
week In the same general direction
the South Penn will complete well
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 or
whether the west extension is one of
the rich pools that have made the dis
trict famous. The latter theory is
the generally accepted belief. The
South Penn has two or three other
wells drilling east OF the Eddy.