The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-12-01
OIL and GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TR|--S!I|'TA7'E:.
Latest Reports Ope atoms 10.
West Virginia, PennsyI-
vaniaE and Ohio.

NO. q on the w. j. Robinson farm pro-
sduced $50 barrels the first twenty-fo,lr
hours after 1t was drilled into the
lower pay. The next we'll due is the
same company's test on the Stevenson
farm, due north Of the W.. j. Robinson
farm and east OF the Rushville Drilling
Company's producer ION the Seibert
farm. The Stevenson farm test is
drilling in the top Of the sand and IL
It comes in producer will give addi-
'ttonal width to the producing streak,
running northeast from the large.
wells. 81
South OF the w. J.. Robinson farm,
Alexander VALLEY Is drilling in the.
top Of the thirty foot sand at No. 8
on the Mason farm. This location Is
an offset to the National Oil and Gas
lCompany's No. Q on the w. J. Robinson
farm. In the West View district,
Allegheny county, McGrew and Com
.pany have drilled IL test on the Phil
lips heirs farm into the 100-foot sand
and 1t Is showing for q good producer.
The hole filled up 1900 feet with fluid
and they are putting 1t to pumping.
West Virginia.
All districts in West, Virginia, not
fully defined and developed, show
more or less work starting. One mile
south OF the Beech Bottom pool in
Buffalo district, Brooke county, Miller
Brothers drilled a second test on the
q. B. Agnew farm through the Berea
grit and have a good gasser. In the
same district, the old gas well drilled
down short time ago on the Hartley
farm, Is pumping seven barrels a day.
The owners are getting ready to drill
another well on, the same farm.
On Meathouse Fork, four miles be-
low Big Isaac, Greenbrier district,
aDoddrfdge county, Trainer Brothers
drilled No. 3 on the C. L. Pierce farm
through the fourth sand and developed
q fair gas pressure. In Ellsworth
district, Tyler county, the Tyler Oil
Company has drilled its test on the L.
Roberts farm through the Keener and
Big Injun sands and found nothing in
either formation.
In the Big 1njun sand development
in Union district, Clay county, the;
Samples Oil and Gas Company, the
its No. Q on the Harvey Samples farm
a shot and increased its production
from almost nothing to four barrels a
day. OnsP Paint creek, Cabin Creek dis
;trict, Kanawha county, the United
Fuel Gas Company drilled its wildcat
on the Paint Creek Coal and Land
Company's tract thirty feet deeper, 10
a total depth Of g, 06O feet and found
nothing. This location is more than a
mile east Of the Columbus Producing
Companys production on the Williams
Coal Company's tract and shows that
the producing formation. the Berea
grit, does not extend as far east as
this location.
Plugged the Hole.
On Tanners creek. TROY district
Gilmer county. r. q. Gillespie has a
plugged hole at his second test on the
"A. o. Britton farm and has skidfied
the rig. On the same stream and in.
the same district the Crude Oil Conn
pany has again started 10 drill al a
second test on the 4. r. Warsoner
farm. =
In Salt 1icl, district raxton co,r-
ity. the Philadeiphia 7Comnanv e drill.
ing a test on the j. IS. Curtis farm and
has the rig completed for a test IN
the a. M. Donohue farm. In the sama
district. the Hone Natural Gas CON- ,1
pany is drilling q test on the Martha
Mick farm and has made a ioc.tio r, s Az,
the Mary Carder farm = =
Southeastern Ohio.
ON the Ohio side IN the Shallow cana
territory. in the Rease run district.
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