The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-17
OIL AND GAS

Recent development near RosedaleI
IN Birch district. Braxton county. w.
va, have not been such as to stim-
uiate operations in that section. This
- one OF the few districts that has
been attracting some attention, and
where leasing has for. for some time
been quite active. Some months ago
It was thought that new salt sand
pool had been discovered, but recent
compilations have not confirmed that
opinion. Northeast Of Rosedale, NC
Coy and Frame have drilled their
second test on the Mary A. Meyer
farm through the Big Injun sand
and found nothing but a light gas
pressure In that formation. The
salt sand, In which oil was expecten,
proved barren.
On Miracle run, Battelle district.
Monongalia county. the Hope Ma
tural Gas Company has drilled its
lest on the Peter Gnmp farm through
the Fifth sand and to the depth OF
$3.50 feet and has a fair gasser In
the lower sand.
In the old Blue Creek field. in Elk
district, Kanawha county. the Gard
ner Oil Company drilled No. S ON tho
Fred Gardner farm to the Weir SAND, !.
and has a fve-barrel pumper in that
formation. In the Weir sand devel-
opment on the. same stream and in
the same district. the Ohio Fuel OIL
Company has drilled its test ON the
Sinnet farm into the Weir sand. and
the well produced 6S barrels the.
first twenty-four hours after 1t was
drilled into the Weir sand pay.
In the extreme southwest, in But
Ter district. Wayne county, the
South Penn Oil Company has drilled
a wild cat well on the Anthony Ly-
can farm through the Berea grit,
and to total of 1911 feet, mad a
show for light pumper. possibly
four barrels, after 1t has been shot.
The location is remote from produc-
ton and further development work
may lead up to something better
than the first test.
In Sniithfield district, Roane coun-
| ty, tho Wayland OIL and Gas Com
pany has drilled No. 8 on the q. w.
I. Kelley farm through the Big In
jun sand and has a light show for oil
and a fair gass pressurer. The well
| is spraying oil at the rate OF one bar
rel day.
In Murphy district, Richie coun.
lty, the Carnegie Natural Gas Com
pany has put its test ON tire Roy
Grimm farm ii pumping, and it pro-
tducing ten barrels day. While
putting in the tubing the well made
several open flows.
In the Rease Run district, on the
Ohio side, in Independence township,
Washin gton county, Thornily and
Davis drilled their No. 9 on the Jane
Alexander farm little deeper and.
Increased its production from 40 to
| 90 barrels a day. This district has
recently been furnishing better pro-
ducers than any other district in.
southwestern Ohio. For many
months the deep sand territory in
Hooking and Perry counties supplied
the greater part of the new produc-
ton in the Buckeye fields
The refiners of crude of the Penn
sylvania grade have combined and
will begin a campaign of education
by advertising and other means to-
show to the public the superiority of
Pennsylvania crude and its products
over that of any other grade of oil
produced in commercial quantities
in the United States.
It is said the refining companies
each have contributed 5000 to goI
into a fund to advertise their prod
ucts and it is further proposed to ask
for Legislation requiring that pack
ages and barrels be stamped. shiwing|
from what grade the contents con-
tanned is made. The measure pro-
posed is along the line of the pure
food act, and petitions for securing
the necessary legislation are now
being circulated and many signatures
have ben obtained.
The Oil Market.
Pennsylvania $1.45, Mercer black
S1.02, Newcastle s1.02. Corning So,
Cabell $1.05, North Lima 90, South
Lima SO, Princeton 80, Wooster
$1.15, Indiana IS, Somerset 49,,
Ragland As. Illinois SO, Kansas and
Oklahoma So, Corsicana. light SIS,
Corsciana heavy so. Electra SIS,
Healtdton so, Henrietta IS, CaddoI
% degrees 80, Caddo So degrees 20,
Caddo 80 degrees SIS. Caddo crude
As, Canada $1.02.
Producers and Refiners' Company
quotes S145 for crude of the PnnIf-