The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-06-18

ie, Gilmer and Brooke counties added Il
many gushers yielding from 200 10
1,0o0 barrels a day. White no pool
equivalent to the Blue Greek was de-
yeloped during the year, drilling was
more active than ever before owing
to the high prices for OIL
The decrease in the production IN
West Virginia was more marked .her
in the rest of the Appalachian field,
embracing New York, Pennsylvania.
West Virginia, southeastern Ohio and
Kentucky, the decrease in the Appa-
lachian field as whole being but / .72
per cent. compared with 4.63 per cent
in West Virginia. Similarly the val
ne Of the oil produced in the Appal :
chan field as a whole increased as. SO
per cent, compared with an increase
in West Virginia of 44.67 per cent.
The average price per barrel for the
entire Appalt chan field increG sed
from $1.63 in 1912 to S2.46 in 1919.
Activity Stimulated.
''The increase in the price OF petrc
leum which began at the end Of 1912"
says the report, had the desired eff
feet Of stimulating drilling activity in
all the Appalachian states. In New
York this took the form chiefly o.
cleaning out old wells, with an imme-
date increase of production" AS a
result of this process New York for
the first time showed gain in pro-
duction for the first time in seven
years. The total production of the
state was less than 100000 barrels
and the report says:
Although this total is negligibls
in the product of the whole country,
the gain is significant in sho% ing
what rise in price can effect in "A
state where the average yield per
well is less than anywhere else on
earth. The usual course of produc.
ton in New York for several years
has been decline of about Z or 8 per
cent, SO that the change to 3.21 per
cent increase is really significant"
Pennsylvania in 1913 produced T.
927,137 barrels OF oil, valued at
$19.716,146; compared with pro-
duction in 1912 of 7,37,94S barrels,
valued at $19,716,148. The report
states that all Of the wells in Penn
sylvania have long since passed their
prime, but differ in their stages Of
exhaustion. 1t says:
4aOoS a. NVhoAE9O SO0Aty SAA0 SAAS
Bradford and other northern pools
include the pools which origi.
mated the oil industry in the United
States and international oil COM
merce, although Canada's oil produc-
ton begun at about the same time,
and Roumania also was productive
country before the Drake, the first
American we'll, was drilled. The
wells in the southwestern counties
of Pennsylvania have been drilled
more recently.
1T is matter of some national
pride that the spirit of thrift and
conservation in New York and Penn
sylvania has kept these old wells
productive, with no other aid than
the .homely ingenuity of the citizens
of those states, who have contrived
lnarvelously economical and efficient
means to keep the wells pumping
with little recourse to special lesisla.
ton on the one hand or to the use
of large capital on the other. The
fact is to be emphasized also, in &C
counting for this fact in Increasing
the production from these old pools,
that it was due chiefly to skillful
work in once more cleaning out wells
that have previously been cleaned
again and again, rather than to new
production"