The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-26
oil AND GAS
development
0E I|RI-SIA1E
Latest Reports Of Operations Ia
West Virginia; Pennsyl-
yania and Ohio.

OIL operators and producers and. In
fact those engaged In all branches OF
the industry were content to remain
away from their Offices and euSual
haunts yesterday and enjoy the holt
day. Those who gathered at the festal
board conld more fully relish the feast
than they could year ago. The mar
Iket price. OF crude is fifty-fiye cents d
barrel higher tim at this time last
year and the industry fast approach
ing Q state of prosperity. Last year
operators. were curtailing development
work preparatory. to doing as little as,
possible until the business revived.
At the present time there Is Just the
reverse. Operations are revtvtng IN
nearly all sections and producers are
hopeful OF Q still further advance in
the market.
Scarcity 81 available producing ter
ritory is the greatest obstacle in the.
way OF a general revival of develop
|ments in the eastern fields. The search
Is being renewed and explorations will,
be carried into untried territory and
pushed forward as espedi tiously as
the weather will permit. Operators are
inclined to slow down during the win
ter months, but the present promises
70 be an exception. : u
West Virginia.
West Virginia has several new de-
velopments that promise well and are
receiving a good deal Of attention. The
Big Iniun pool on Fishing creek, Green
district Wetzel county, is a possibility.
In this district there are several wells
due in the sand, and IL producers viii
open the way for greater activity. In
Warrington district there is another
Big Injun sand delevopment that looks
encouraging, and the Berea grit devel-
opment in Cabin creek district, Kanaw-
ha county, is still an unknown guam
tity. The higher market is stimulating
operations in districts where there is
no longer hope for wells that are not
able to produce more than five or ten
barrels a day. s
The shallow sand districts are the
/, first to respond to the markets adj
vance. In the Eureka district, Pleas
getting some nice bumpers on the j. A.
Mathehey and conncll heirs, farms. Its
No. s on the first named is good for. six
barrels and No. 8 on the Cornell heirs
five barrels. Its test on the a. Dennis
farm is a buster In the Cow Run sand.
and Frank Shrier's No. a on. the Ham
nett heirs farm is light pumper in
the same formation. In the Calcutta
district Gallaher, Buckley Sykes and
Company drilled second test on the
w. III. NoIand farm through the second
Cow Run sand and scored a buster.
In the same district Arnold, Adams
and Company. completed a. test on the
y. knight farm and got a light pumper.
In Spencer district, Roane. county,
thes United Fuel Gas Company CONS
pleted tests on the Squire Robey and
John Miller farm and got Berea grit
gasers. In the same locality the same
company is rigging up to drill its test
on the H. B. Reed farm to the same
formation. Il ~
~ Southeastern Ohio.
In the old Corning district, Monroe
township, Perry county, o., John Hol-
den drilled his No. 10 on the Rodgers
brothers farm through. the Berea grit
and secured a five barrel pumper. IN
the same district and township the
Pleasantsville Oil and Gas Company
drilled No.T on the Matthew Corbett
farm through the. .Berea grit and de-
Eyeloped but a light show Of oil.
In the deep sand territory in Perry
county development work is reyiving.
In the junction City district, Pike
township. Ralph Brothers have the
material on the ground for rig on
fha II IN .1Caffa11 farm In TocLcn,,