The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-10-01
Another Bad Man Escapes
From State Penifenfiary

Natural Gas company has the rig COM
pleted for a second test on the l. Free
land farm.
on Failing Timber run, Grant district.
Wetzel county. the South Penn on vorn-
pany has drilled No. is on the CosgrRy-
stewart farm through the Gordon sand
barrels a day. In Eagle district. Harri-
son county, the Philadelphia company
has drilled a test on the w. Brent Max
well farm into the thirty-f0ot sand ana
has very good gasser.
On Lidia's run. clay district Writ
county. Kelley & Cooper have drilled
their test on the ID. Cornelius farm
a. rough the 1OO-foot sand and have a
duster. In the Beech Bottom develop
ment. Barnsdall d Hays are drilling No.
=. and have the rig completed for No.
Mhdren. sons q co. are drilling = test
on the John J. Walsh farm.
Southsastern Ohio.
In the deep sand territory IN Pike
township. Coshocton county. O. the Col
umbus OIL a Fuel Company IL meeting
with better success than any other previ-
Gus Efforts In that county. This company
has just completed and shot its Noe. 3
and on the Malinda Heft farm. The
first bridged when ~ was shot. and aside
from a good show of oil III status a. a
: responded when shot and flowed IS
barrels the first "a hours. No Is loca-
ted 1900 feet north OF No ? on the same
farm. In the same township. the Ohio
Rochester OIL & Gas Compsny Is due I'm
the Clinton sand at a test on the Gilbert
Ashcraft farm. In Bedford township.
the buckeye Gas Company g. due 70 the
sand at a test on the samuel miller farm.
Shallow TERRITORY.
Near Stockport. Union township. Nor
gan county. Lowell q Knight have drilled
the Peeker sand and have a light pumper.
In Penn township. the Creek oil Com
pany has drilled No. 10 on the Stacy
Harris farm through the sane formation
and has small nail rfOuCan A SOn
have completed a test 90 the Clara
Plummer farm and have a light pumper
In the Cow Run sand.
township. Belmont county. the Natural
Gas Company OF West Virginia Is due I'm
the sand at No. , on the silas Mobley
farm. The same company's NO. on the
=. l.. Mooney farm will be due I'm the
sand this week. The test on the Myles
Hart farm, owned by the sSme ompany.
Is still holding up at 30 barrels a day
Near Mingo Junction. Cross Crock town
ship, Jefferson county. Kean a Co have
drilled test on the T. ~. Thompson
farm through the Berea grit and have a
buster. -
Drilling Deep rssts-
In all fields operators arv not etoppfng
when they fail TO find oil or gas I'm pay
formation. but drill on through all sands
and some much deeper Near Thomas
station. on the Baltimore a OHIO rail-
road. in Nottingham township. Washing
ton county. the Carnegie Natural Gas co.
has just completed a deep test on tho
Clark Patterson farm. This well was
drilled through oil sands and TO "A depth
OF 4.3S4 feet and found nothing.
At Duff city. Allegheny county. the
Hazelwood OIL Company pas completed
No. on the c. J. Johnston farm and has
"A very light pumper In the same local
lily. r. J Wright - Co are drilling a test
on the Aaron Davis farm During the
month six wells we've cou1pleted In ' the
DUFF City field and all. except one =
gasser. proved busters.