The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-15
GOOD
PRODUCER
saIen, District Comes to the Front
With a Gordon.

II salem District Comes to the Front
With a Gordon.
are still the rule in the lower south
west fields The Salem district, Harri-
son county. West Virginia, after long
period IN which it furnished nothing
better than light wells and busters,
has come to the front with a good
producer 1t is the South Penn Oil
sCompany's second test on the S. X.
5I1anhan farm. At twelve feet in the
Gordon the pay was tapped and the
well produced12 5 barrels in the first
!. twenty=four hours. Drilling was suS-
pended as soon as the well began to
show OIL SO as to wait on the pipe
line to make connections. 1t will then
be drilled deeper and is expected 10
increase its production. In the same
district the South Penn Company has
drilled It's No. % on the NJ. Raymond
farm through the Gordon and will not
have better than two-barrel punper.
tits now drilling to its fifth sand.
Il In the same district the South Penn
Il has completed its second test on the
Andrew Spindle farm and has ten
= barrel pumper in the Gordon. In the
same locality the South Penn has
drilled its second test on the a. A.
Stout farm twenty-five feet into the
stray and has found no oil or gas.
la On Little creek, in the Pine Grove
extension, the South Penn Company
has drilled it's No. II on the Jesse
a N y-Tr1i int 7, a hoe
/ a gasser. Near Downs Station, in the
same county. the Hope Natural Gas
Company has drilled its test on the
5 Tough farm through the Big
SInjun and is now drilling to the fifth
sand. The same company is due in
the fifth sand at a test on the S. e.
B Tough farm. The South Penn Com
pany has completed it's No. 1 on the
J. p Tough farm and has small
sgasser. In the Wolf Summit district,
Harrison county, the Reserve Gas
Company is due in the sand at test
on the Lloyd Williams farm.
Showing Light at Folsom.
On the east side of the Folsom dis
trict the South Penn Company has
drilled its second test on the ]. w.
Davis farm through the Gordon and
has show for light pumper. The
same company has drilled it's No. 80 on
the Genine Robinson farm thirty feet
into the stray and has found no gas
or oil The Delmar Oil Company has
drilled its No. 5 on the Floyd Lyons
farm seventeen feet into the Gordon
and has developed no oil or gas. 1t
+ is still drilling and has a chance for
pay. South Of Warrington, Marion
county, West Virginia, B. F. Bartlett
& Co. have drilled their test on the
George Be1ch farm into the Gordon
and the hole was filed up 200 feet
with fluid. 1t will make a fifteen or
twenty barrel pumper- In the same
district the Freeland Oil Company's
Mo- on tn G. w. Beatty farm has
been drilled into the thirty-foot sand
and has made forty-barrel flow. The
same company's test on the Pritchard
heirs, farm is producing twenty-five
barrels a day. In the Fairview district
the South Penn Company's No 10 on
the D. L. Toothman farm is holding
up at $50 barrels day from the fifth
sand.
Shot and Improved.
On the west side of the Folsom dis
trict,s Wetzel county, the South Penn
! Oil Company has shot it's No. IS on
the 1. d. Morgan farm and it produced
seventy barrels the ensuing twenty
four hours. In the Pine Grove extern
sion the South Penn Company has
drilled its No. G on the Motion Dulaney
farm into the stray and the hole has
filed up 1900 feet with fluid. 1t will
make a small producer. The same
company has drilled its second test on
the T. J. Higginbotham farm through
the stray and will give it shot. No
4 on the J. A Lemasters farm has been
shot and produced seventy-five barrels
the first twenty-four hours. The South
Penn Company's No. on the John
1nghram farm is a gasser in the Cor
don.
H BRYAN'S VIEW OF PLATFORM.