The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-01-25
OIL IN GARRETT COUNTY!
Garrett Man Thinks There Is, and
Talks Interestingly.

/ p"iS "HOSC ulIGCIOISnlp comprise
some of the most influential citi-
zens of the State of Maryland, are
about to drills another well for oil
and gas in that beautiful valley.
They have already erected a
standard derrick, and the machin-
cry and tools are being shipped in
and in the course of a week or two
the drill will be vending its way
down in the bowels of the earth.
This company has upwards of
thirteen thousand acres of land in
Maryland, WestVirginia and Penn
sylvania. They drilled a we'll on
their holdings in West Virginia
which proved to be dry as only
two feet Of oil sand was found and
the gas it produced was not INSULT
clent quantities to pay. They
have decided to abandon their
holdings in West Virginia, and
will concentrate their efforts to get
well down in their holdings in
Maryland and Pennsylvania; they
have already drilled one well to a
depth off ,645 feet, and found four
different stratas of oil sand, the last
two which was especially promis
ing
When through some means
which the driller has never ex-
planned, the drill and stem consist
ing Of Al feet Of steel, was allowed
to drop in the well. The company
then secured a set of fishing tools,
which the driller allowed to get
fast in the top of the second oil
sand. After weeks of labor thew
were compelled to move their ma
chinery away, being unable to get
the tools out Of the we'll. This
we'll cost the company in the
neighborhood of seven thousand
dollars, and it seems when they
were on the eve of success thev
found all their labor lost. How
eyer, they will try again and they
are sanguine success will crown
their efforts.
This field is an exact counter
part Of the famous Gaines field of
Northern Pennsylvania, havingthe
same geological formatio
Through this valley can be found
springs Of fresh water which yield
every day a certain amount of crude
petroleum, which has been going
on for years. In the drilling of
the Lint we'll the first oil-bearing
sand was found at a depth of seven
hundred feet, and as regular as in
the oil fields did the drill encoun-
ter the other sands. The thirty
foot sands being especially strong
in petroleum. But by the plug
ging Of the we'll, by the tools being
dropped, the we'll could not be
shot.
1t is a fact that in the Chip
munk field" of Pennsylvania when
a local company drilled four wells
they only encountered one sand at
depth of 1900 feet, which only
gave slight odor of petroleum in
the sand. The local company fail
ed to shoot the wells and abandon
ed the territory. The Standard
Oil Company came in, leased the
same property, filled up the wells
to the 1900 foot level, nltrogly-
cerined the wells III this sand, and
and such wells produced forty bar
rels day, one hundred and sixty
barrels of production from the four
wells the local company organized,
at the expense of shooting the
wells. There is party of prom
inent capitalists from Pittsburg or
ganizing a strong company, which
expect to operate this coming sum
mer in various parts of Garrett
County, having leased for period
of ten years, over several thousand
acres of land. Locations have been
made by several most practical oil
men. This same company expects
to lay gas line along the old Nation
al Pike to Baltimore, by the way of
Cumberland. This company al,
ready has seventy five productit,,
wells in Pennsylvania and West
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