The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-03-27
OIL AND GAS

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Compile tons IN the eastern field are
al Q. the ordinary kind While most
OF I've wells are OF the paying kline.
none End a place in the list classed a..
Sushers. The old districts continue TO
flrulsh the most competitions and
nearly all are located inside defined
territory. In the lower West Virginia
mental work that + reaching the in
teresttng point. and i being watched
In the SArdis district. near Wallace.
harrison county. the South Penn OH
company has nov completed its No
= on the :. X. Lanhan farm and has a
Gordon sand. In the same district.
Grove A Parrish's. No. I on the r. Y.
Moore farm Is still holding up AT 21O
barrels day.
on Lyons run. Murphy district.
hltchie county. the Cairo on Company
mas drilled it, No. IL on the Thomas
z Davis farm through the salt sand
and has a l5-barrel producer. The rig
Tor NO IL. on the same farm. has been
completed. The Hope Natural Gas
Company's test on the Frank Hill
farm Il a fair gasser.
Good Producer in PIeasants
In McKim district. Peasants coun.
". Rinehart a Cor. have completed
and shot THEN test on the w Ner.
Ger farm. and Il produced 40 barrels
the hrst "a hours. The oil was deveI-
opea IN the keener sand, and IL Is the
pest wen completed I'm Peasants coun-
~ Tor a number OF months.
IN Union district. Peasants coun-
y. 7. Schlagel has drilled No. II on
me X ID. Rigs farm through ihe Cow
Run sand and has n buster.
IN the old Moscow field in Poe dis
trict. Hancock county. O'Brien A. Gu
sack have drilled No. - on their farm
through the Berea grit and havr a
show for very light pumper. In the
same district. the Hooker on Com
pany Is starting No. on the X.
Hooker farm. c. w. Freshwater A
company are drilling No. 4 on the
Peter Peterson farm. Near Burning
springs. Elizabeth district. Writ
county. X. W. Hannah has drilled No
on the A. J. Beckner farm into the
SAND and has show for a llght
PRODUCER. The Slayer OIL Company
Is Que In the sand at No. on the j.
BumGarner farm.
Southeastern Ohio.
IN the deep sand territory in south
eastern Ohio in the Junction City dis
trict. Jackson township. Perry coun-
~. the Ohio Central OH Company has
completed and shot its No. 3 on the
Erwin Moran farm and has a show for
nght pumper in the Clinton sand
II Pike township. Ralph Mrothers'
No. on the Celadon Con pany's prop
erv Is holding up at SIS barrels a
gay. Near Junction City. the Motz
Oh and Gas Company has started a
test on the Junction City CLAY pro-
ducts Company's property. This To-
cation IL one-half mile northeast OF
the Oil City Trust Company's No ?
on the $. G. Elder farm.
Buster at Union Furnace.
In the Union Furnace district. Starr
toWnship, Hooking county. the CONT
mental Oil Company has drilled its
test on the Charles Robbins farm
through the Clinton sand TO a depth
OF S,215 feet and has a duster. This
location Is about 1000 feet from the
test on the c. Stalter farm.
IN me shallow sand territory near
mineral Rome township, Athens
county frank Deyore has started a
rest on the Jesse Fitzgerald farm. In
decatur township. Washington county.
X. w Hannah and company have
completed No. on the Wetherall
IarIn ana nave show for five-barrel
bumper. In the Newport district
EDWARD T Myers has started No. I
on the John Braun heirs fam. No.
Is holding up at 50 barrels a day. NJ.
fannan has recovered the tools lost
IN ms No. on the Brown heirs farm
ana Is now drilling at 900 feet.
IN section 3. Know township. Co.
Iumbiana county. the Oil City oil com.
Dshy has drilled No. on the John a.
wagner farm and the Smith OIL com.
pahy has completed No on the
nomas Cameron farm and both have
oeen snot and showing for light pump.
ers' In the Nicely development near
me lawrence county line, some six
OF elght wells have been com pLefs-
ana snow an average OF about five
barrels day. Development work in
mat district is increasing and within
Few weeks will be quite active
Southwest PennevIvspis
IN the Midtown district. near trnitv
! AIlegheny county. Pa. the Phillips
Gas ana OIL company completed and
put Its test on the ID. n. Stotler farm
20 pumping and IL produces 4 barrels
me hrst IS hours. This was the hea
That had collected since the well was
completed and shot. and IL Is expect
ed 10 settle down TO about Is barrels
2 day. In the same district the Amer
ican Natural Gas company has drilled
2 test on the l.. Georing farm into The
lOO-foot sand and has a show of oil
III WI be put to pumping and tested
] and II II does not prove a satisfactory
producer. will be drilled TO the lower
sand