The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-09-07
OIL and GAS


The drilling In of a gusher in the
w. j. Robinson farm near Dorsey
vile, in Indiana township. Allegheny
ounty, last Saturday is an evil
oence that the local fields still have
some undrilled territory that is capa-
BILE Of furnishing large producers.
They are hard to find but all the
more appreciated when discoy-
cred. The wen on the Robinson
farm is owned by the National OIL
and Gas Company, Pittsburg parties,
and is the elimination of consider
able test work that has been COM
pleted in that district within the
past year. The oil was developed
In the thirty-foot sand and after it
had been drilled eleven feet into the
pay. The well started to flow at
the rate of better than twenty-five
barrels an hour and the first TWEEN
ty-four hours produced 634 barrels.
Drilling was at once suspended to
move back the boiler and yester-
day morning the we'll was holding
up at seventeen barrels an hour. AS
soon as the boiler has been moved
back they will drill it little deeper
and 1t is expected to increase its
production to q point higher than
when the pay was first tapped.
The National Oil and Gas Com
pany has been operating in that To-
cal1ty for several years and had pre-
viously completed ten wells. It will
be recalled that Valley and Com
pany drilled In a well In the same
Development several months ago and
1t started at better than 200 bar
rels a day and showed exceptional
good staying qualities. The gusher
Is 500 feet northeast OF Valley and
Company's good we'll on the Nc
Corkle farm. The staying Qualities
of the wells is one of the commend
able features of the thirty-foot sand.
The National Oil and Gas Com
pany holds leases on all the ada
cent territory and stands to secure
large production.
AS producing formation In the To-
cal fields. the thirty-foot sand begins
at Imperial. Allegheny county. and
extends northeast in succession of
pools through Moon, Kilibuck. Robb.
and Shaler townships in Indiana
township. twelve miles due north of
Pittsburg>~ Once the wells have
settled down, they prove very con-
sistent producers. the productions
change little from day to day and
at the end Of the year after compile
tion the productions show small de-
crease and in some instances slight
increase.
Southeastern Ohio.
The deep sand territory in South
eastern Ohio after a long run Of light
producers has again come to the
front with good we'll. 1t is the
Prestong Oil Company's second test
on the Eliza STEERS farm, in the north
east quarters of section eighteen,
Starr township, Hooking county. The
first twenty-four hours the well was
drilled through the Clinton sand and
shot it produced $50 barrels. The
Union Furnace district, in which the
we'll is, has little new work starting
but the size Of the well Just COM
pleted will stimulate development
work in that locality. In the shall
low sand territory in Warner dis
trict, Washington county, Minch and
Company have completed their No. S
on the Peter Pfaff farm and have
a light pumper in the first Cow Run
sand. In the same district, S. G.
Turner has drilled second test on
the Lewis Huffman farm through the
came formation and has light
pumper. 5000 feet northeast Of pro-
duction.
| West Virginia.
On the waters of Poca river, Smith
field district. Roane county, w. va,
the Ohio Fuel OIL Company has
drilled No. is on the H. G. Taylor
farm through the Big Injun sand and
has light pumper. On Rush creek,
in the same district, the South Penn
4 Oil Company has completed No. II
on the Andrew Parks farm through
the same formation and has fifteen
barrel pumper.
4 On OH Rock Run, Clay district,
Writ county. @. F. West has given
his No. 10 on the Coldwater OIL and
Coal Producing Company's farm q
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