The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-03-12
OIL AND GAS

81 UlL anu GA5
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After several years of fruitless Wild
eating in Jefferson county. o.. &c
now looks asrthougn new pool had
been discovered and operators in
that county are a good deal exercised
lover the find that may lead up to a
new pool. Like all others in that
county it may prove small, but Just
the same promises to be interesting.
The well was drilled by Cashier
Brothers, of SteubenyiIle, and is lo-
Gated on the Winters farm in the
southeastern quarter section 81. in
Island Greek township, and about
two miles west OF the light producers
on the j. c. McCallister heirs farm.
From the showing made when the
well was drilled through the Berea
grit it is thought that 1t will be good
for fifteen barrels a. day. and may
do even better after 1t Is shot. Leases
I in that vicinity are being eagerly
sought after. a few years ago Cast.
tner Brothers were active operators In
Jefferson county and were very sue
cessful. Then their luck failed them
and thtl7 bumped into one dry mole
after another until they had com
pleted more than a dozen busters:
The search for "a new pool in Jeffer-
son county has been almost contlnu-
Gus for the four years, and nothing
:of apprecia bic dimensions las been
discovered.
IN the Rease Run district, hide
,pendence township, Washington
/ county, the most active district in
0hi n TIL sT1a =
Wis started to drill No. on the Jane
Alexander farm In the same dis
Etrfct and township Walter Browns
heirs have started to drill No. q on
their own farm. In the Chester Hill
district, Marion township. Morgan
county, the Chester Hill Oil Company
lis drilling No 12 on the TT. Edger-l
ton farm, located 1000 feet west OF
production.
The Salt sand Development at
Spencer, Roane county, W. Va.
shows a light Improvement over the
late compilations. when busters were
| has completed and will put to pump
ing It's No. 5 on the b. G.. Smith farm
farmland hasa show for a five-barrel
bumper. The first we'll completed on
this farm had an initial production
!, OF sixty barrels and the second Is q
f.duster. MAYHEM and Harshbarger
are due in the sand at their test on
the Il. =. Linger farm and Baker and
nicholson are due in the sand at a
ttest on the p. S. Criss lot. The Hers
imam Oil Company has the rig COM
.lp1eted for a test on the F. u. Linger
Hot but has not started to drill
Il In the old Blue Creek field in Elk
3llistrict. Kanawha county. J. n.
,lCurnes has given his old No. 8 on the
dJIriah Young farm a. shot in the
ISquaw sand and increased Its produc-
Ation from S to 10 barrels day. IN
the Weir sand development on the
!tsame stream and the same district,
1.-the Ohio Fuel Oil Company is due in
1.-THE sand 6at&an important test on he
Jennie Hoover farm.
j The Penn-N[ex Fuel Company, in
(which much Pittsburg capital is In
Iterested. operating In the Tamp1co
5lfields in NJ eSico, has received word
Iron its general manager that Cen
Acral Carranza has given the company
permission TO ship its oil In storag &c
at Tampico and "a tank steamer ha,
3Ibeen dispatched to that port for its
iItfrst cargo OF crude oil. The Penn
jlMex Fuel Company has for "a NUN
1ber OF months had a large amo unit OF
Acrute oflyfn storage at Tampico, but
itEeneral Carranza issued an eulce
sIagainst the imp ortation OF any crude
s(0il from that port and in consequence
1'of that embargo. the company has
salibeen unable to market Its crude OF
eE.continne develo pment work on its
holdings in Mexico. Now that the re:
. strictfons have been removed. the
ssEPenn-Mex Company will be able to
Z resume operations. or at least until
slsucn time as anothef such edfct. or
= enc similar. is issued by some self
tIappointed dictator in that trouble
some country.
THE Oil Market.
8 Pennsylvania. S $50, Mercer black
4 s1.0 New Castle $40 q, Corning 95i
iCabell Sill o, North Lima S8. Souh
Lima. g 8, Princeton 81 Wooster
lis !. a &. \ Indiana 3 q Somersets90 o. Rag
Hand 20 Illinois "a Kansas "A o., Okla
Ihoma 40. Corsicln light: s. Gorsi-
IEcana heavy 70. Electra s. Headlton
..f|f3O, Henrietta 4 5. G,addo 3S degrees
..ls70, Caddo So degrees so. Gaddo 50
sldegrees So Gaado crude Is, Canada
-t$1 3D..
g Producers ant Refners. Gsonlpnns
-Earotes $50 Tor zcrud OF She Perm;