The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-07-14

with 3z-p. Skin Book ON request. Ad.
! dress postcard s'cuticura. Dept. T, Bee
/ sOn-" Sold throughout tho world.
terday to get the pay and had not
/ found it. Should this well prove
failure. as now indicated. it will con
/! clusively shut OF an extension to the
lnortheast.
Leasing is Active.
The Southwest is the most favored
now for an extension. Leasing in
that direction is still quite active.
Local parties have leased the Lutz
farm located mile in advance OF
third-sand production, and paid
bonus OF $1,000. Four separate and
distinct companies are crowdtng In as
! close as they can get to the South
Penn Oil Company's good producer
on the B. F. White farm. There are
| three righs up and another building
on adjoining lots, and it Is possible to
step from one rig to the other. BY
! the time all are completed their re-
spectfye owners will not have so much
money but they will be a whole lot
wiser The same is true OF those who
are drilling in the central part of
1.-the town. In one part of the village
there are twelve wells completed,
drilling and starting on space not
to exceed 1-2 acres.
According to the last twenty-four
hours guage of the South Penn Oil
Company,s No. S on the B. F. White
farm. 1t averaged 18 barrels an hour.
The McSweeney and Company we'll
on the Pierce lot is down to ten
barrels an hour.
Drilling Old Well.
The South Penn Oil Company has
started to drill its old No. 1 on the
B. F. White farm to the third sand,
thing hard, probably which they have
no record. Before the close of the
week there will be no fewer than
six, and probably eight. wells get the
sand at town lot locations. Nothing
daunted by the dry holes and small
wells ON number of town lots there
are still those who show a willingness
to take chances. Rigs are going up on
more lots and 1t looks as though the
furry would not end as long as there
is a location undril1ed. To the ma
jority of town lot owners the excite
ment has brought no small amount
of easy" money. Nearly all have
received some bonus money, and in
some instances more than the house
and lot would bring IL offered for sale.
While some Of the rigs are not in the
living room, they are so close as to
shut out the light from the win
dows.
The big gasser near East McKees-
port, in Versailles township, is partly
under control. The Peoples Gas
Company has purchased the output Of
the we'll, but is not to pay z cents
reported In the face of what the
gas company had to contend with it
is regarded by gas experts as a mas
tefly piece OF work to be able to get
the well under control In SO short O
time. It will likely be long time
If ever. before another we'll of such
pressure will be found. The volume
of gas developed in this well exceeds
that of any other we'll ever drilled in
this county, and its location SO near
to the base of consumption makes 1t
ali the more surprising. 1t has
stimulated leasing in Versailles and
adjacent township, and holders of
leases have visions of future great
gassers. The pressure of the well
has subsfded-some thing one-fourth
and it is reported that the we'll
is producing more water. Up to
this time no new work has been
started in the Immediately vicinity
of the well.
4
West Virginia has little surprise
In the way OF good producer in al
district that has been furnishing any
thing better than light bumpers. In
Union district, Clay county, the Dav-
ennort OIL and Gas Company has
drilled No. 10 on the Frank Cox farm
into the Big Injun sand and has O
show for thirty or forty barrel pro-
ducer. The location is 500 feet north
of No. 8 on the same tract. For
more than two years there has been
develonment work in this district,
and the wells have averaged less than
ten barrels at the start. In the same
district the Craig Oil Company has
started to drill No. 3 on the j. Craig
and Sons farm.
Another of the four wildcats drill
ing in Cabin Creek district, Kanawha
county. is a buster. 1t Is the South
Penn Oil Coinpany's test on the
Ohley Coal Company's tract and Is lo-
Gated on Cabin Creek, about 2A
miles southeast Of the Columbus Pro
ducing Company's production. The
South Penn Company's test has been
drilled and found to show of oil or
gas at that depth. 1t Is still drill
ing. - :
E,lr district. Kanawha county. the
south Penn OIL Com pany has cofnplet-
al its No. z on the Anna G. Skinner
farm and mas . 5O-bartel producer.
M SSlovAfs Gap, Warrington district.
Marion county, the Carnegie Natural
Gas Company has drilled d sest on the
James Ost4Rrra farm into the thirty
loot sand and has q show for q afteen'