The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-12-26
OIL and GAS
development
OF TR|-sTATE
Latest Reports of Operations 10
West Virginia, Pennsy.
vania and Ohio.

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West Virginia, Pennsy-
vania and Ohio.
Large producers have no place in the
late completion sin the eastern fields.
Light wells were completed in all dis
| tricts. On Indian creek, Murphy dis
trict, Richie county, w. Va, the Hope
Natural Gas Company drilled second
test on the Martin Phillips farm
through the salt sand and has a
twenty barrel producer.
On Devil Hole run, Grant district,
Ritchie county, the o. l. Brown Oil
Company has an exception at its No. 6
on the Rutherford heirs farm. The
well was drilled through the salt sand
and produced seventy barrels the first
twenty-four hours. 1t Is located inside
OF defined territory and the fact that
1t is better producer than the aver
age is the only feature. In Union dis
trict, Peasants county, the Simmons
Oil Company has drilled No. on the
]. E. Kemp farm through the Maxon
sand and developed only light show
Of oil.
Gasser in Harrison County.
In the Bingamon district, Harrison
county, located on Jones run, the
Philadelphia Company drilled test on
the A. A. Borgess. farm through the
fifth sand and found 1t barren. A
light gas pressure was developed in
the Big Injun and fifty-foot sands.
On Murphy creek, Freeman's creek
district, Lewis county, Hatzel, Wilson
and Company drilled No. on the
Charles A. Taylor farm through the
salt sand and it shows for ten bar
rel pumper.
On Big Sandy creek, Big Sandy dis
trlct. Kanawha county, the South Penn
Oil Company gave its test on the N. E.
Dael farm a shot in the Weir sand
but did not increase its production.
About five barrels a day will be its
speed. On Blue creek, Elk district, the
South Penn Company has completed
No. II on the j. v. R. Skinner farm
and 1t Is good for fifteen barrels day
in the Weir sand. In the same district,
the same company is drilling in the
sand at No. 10 on the Anna v. Skinner
farm and has show for good pro-
Queer. In the same district the Ohio
Fuel Oil Company shot No. 2 Garland
Anderson heirs and No. 2 on the VIII
liam Young heirs farms and increased
their production from twelve to sixty
seven and ten to sixty barrel, respec-
lively. In Union district, Wood county,
the Sleey Oil Company has started to
drill No. 10 on the U. s. Alleman farm.
On the Ohio side in the shallow sand
territory in the Woodsfield district,
Malaga township, Monroe county,
George Vandergrift and Company have
drilled test on the Charles Hinder
long farm into the Keener sand and It
is showing for good producer. In the
same district Stnudt AMI Smith COM
pleted test on the John Bueklo farm
ship, Cooper, Young and Company's
test on the Joseph McFaddcn farm is
| producing fifteen barrels a day from
the Kecner sand.
! Buster and Gasser In Columb.nna.
In the northeast quar;er of section
IS, Knox township, colurnb!ara Gown
ty, the Worth Oil Company drilled IL
test on the L. d. Stauffer farm through
the Berea grit and have duster. In
the southeast quarter Of section IA.
Kuhns and Company drilled test on
the John Kutz farm through the same
formation and have small gasser.
In the Dorseyville field, Allegheny
county. the National Oil and Gas Com
pany drilled its No. on the W. j.
Robinson farm through the thirty
foot sand and has light producer. The
same company's test on the Stevenson
farm will make a light pumper In the
third sand. Alexander Valley Is drill
ing his No. 4 on the George Mason farm
TO the lower sands and will not stop
until after he has drilled 1t through
the fifth sand.
Two miles south OF Dorseyville, the
National OIL and Gas Company is due
in the thirty-foot sand at a test on
the w. Arbuckle farm. In the north
east end of the Dorseyville develop
ment the same company will be due
in about week at its test on the Peter
Younkers farm. On the west side of
the development, Alexander VALLEY
will be due next week to get the sand
at his we'll on the cemetery lot. This
we'll is an Offset to the National on
and Gas Company's No. on the j.
Haas farm.
The Oil Market.
The prices paid for oil Of various
grades by the purchasing agencies
are:
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