The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-04


week. the Evans City pool in Butler
county was still the leading attrac.
tion. Operations are now In run
swing on the town lots and goou
deal oe new work is starting on ada
cent farms. Through the week at It's
close leasers were still busy takln 3
| up territory to the south and east
Of the development. For seve "a
miles In every direction from the
town all farms have been leased ana
10 the south and southeast leases
have been taken as far as seven
miles in advance of the pool. Inc
! current week will be important TOT
town lot operators A number OF
wells are now drilling in or near
the top of the sand. The develop
ments of the past week We're lmpoI
liant. The Amber OH COMPANY.
Third sand buster. located on the SUI
to, farm northeast of the pool, shuts
\ ~ an extension in that direction.
The south Penn Oil Company's NO.
& on the White farm makes 1t loon
sood for a south and southeast e3-
\ Tension. The rush to start ne"
work is now to the south ana souIn
Ieast. .,.4,aa
The South Penn Company,s NO. ~ :
on the White farm shows good stay.
i 4n oua1ities. It rounded out the
week flowing at the rate OF twenty
Sye barrels an hour and at no tins
since IT drilled itself in early IN Tue
week has the production fallen De
lou twenty-five barrels an hour Eng
nrnduction from this we'll Is seVeral
times larger than that OF any oInei
we'll In the eastern neids ls seVea-
Largest of any well in Butter eou aa
~ for more than ten years. or since
tic "Snot+y" Mcbride gusher was
drilled in. During the interim ButleT
county has had some prospects that
Hacked promising. but failed Wnen
Mt ~ the test. This has been the
history of operations in the soutn-
west fields. When it came TO extenu.
ling the producing limits OF new s.
! strike it was failure the toWn ~.
development at Canonsburg, MasM :
/ ington county, is of too recent ua ,te
- roore than mention 1t among the
failures.
West Virginia.
| The close of the week saw nothing
better than light wells completed IN
the West Virginia fields. In the
burning Springs district. Writ coun-
ty. the Walnut Creek OH Compaus
| has completed second test on Ing
Fairfax farm and has a duster IN ~
salt sand. In the same district, Ine
Hone Natural Gas Company mas
drilled a second test on the D. "a.
Wyers farm through the sETne form.
alton and has a show for light
hummer This location is northwest
IF the south Penn Oil Company
test on the D. II. Holbert farm, ootn
located on the east side OF the h sssN.
er sand pool, developed by the wa
nut Greek Oil Company on ROCK run.
| In Murphy district. Richie coun-
~ the Hone Naturaf Gas Company
hae drilled second test on the y.
r, Zfcafoose farm through the Berea
crit and has given 1T a shot and mas
| tight oil pumper In the lower sanu
and a fair gas pressure In the b!s
mum sand. ON Big Elk creek, Sardis
district. Harrison county, the Souln
Penn Oil Company has completed w.
on the John III. Henderson =. :
and has a ten-barrel pumper IN the
Gordon sand. 1880.
the Philadelphia company has drilled
its test on the John Linevtlle farm
through te fifth END and has gas
ser. On Elk Run, Freeman's Creek
district. Lewis county. the same com
pany has drilled a test on the y. '.
fifth sand and has gasser:
New Work I'm Lincoln County.
In Duyal district. Lincoln county.
| the wayand OIL and Gas Company
has completed and SHOT a second test
on the ira NJ. Hill farm and has
hye-barrel pumper rim the Berea grit.
In the same district. the South Penn
OH Company has the rigs completed
I for No. 2S and "a on the Horse
| Creek tract. In Washington dis
trict. the Eagler OIL and Gas Com
many has started to drill test on the
walter Hall farm. In Duyaa dis
trict, the Carter OH COMPANY y
! farm and has the rig completed Tor