The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-19
OIL AND GAS
Development
OF [R|-STATE
Latest Reports of Operations in
- West Virginia, Pennsyl-
ST. vania and Ohio.

The Dorseyville field in Indiana
township. Allegheny county, Pa, is to
the front with another gusher an. the
National OIL and Gas Company is the
lucky owner. It Is this compauv's
second test on the w. j.. Robinson
farm. 500 feet east Of No. .. The
well was drilled few inches into the
second pay at IL O'clock yesterday
morning and began to low NJ the rate.
OF thirty barrels al hour and was
holding up at that pace las. evening.
No: on the same farm Is still pro-
ducing IT'S barrels IN hour and would
indicate that 1t is drawing It's bro
duction from the cast aud northeast,
the direction in which it is thought
the producing streak extends. Alex
Valleys No. 2 on the john Mason
farm, 80 feet southwest OF the new
gusher, is holding up ut eighty bar
'relsI a day. :,
The showing that the No. Q on the
W. y. Robinson farm is making indi-
Gates that the producing limits Of the
present development extend to the
east and northeast. To the southwest
Alex Valley will get the sand at his
second test on The Jeanette McCorkle
farm next Friday. The location is
not important for the reason that It
Is located I'm territory that has been
under development for some time. To
the northwest Of developments the
Rushyille Drilling Company has lust
got nicely started at its test on the
Seibert farm.
Light bumpers In Beaver County.
In the Kendall pool, Hanover town
ship, Beaver county, Yolton, Jones
and Company have drilled No. 3 on
the Lewis Sarver farm through the
sand and will not have better tfan a
Iour or ive barrel pumper. All late
snorts to extend the producing lin
its OF the Kendall pool have resulted
IN failure. There is no new work
starting In tho district and the Ole
wells, ono, time gcoo producers, have
taltsp low In production.
Z 1n.the; Smiths Ferry district Figley
and Company are due In the sand at a
test on the " A. McMullen farm and
%, Nay and Company will be due 1,
the sand this week at test on the
George Smith farm. In the Imperial
district. Allegheny county, E. Laughs
ner is due in the sand at fest on
the George NJ: Ferree farm.
Interest in the well near saybrook
o., on the Durey farm, and drilled BY
local parties. has somewhat subsidized.
but those who have invested IN leases
I'm that locality are still keeping An
touch with what Is going on and So
curing as much information as pos
stble relative to the initial. One Of a
number Of Pittsburg operators inter-
estedf IL leases, soon after the Say
brook well was drilled In, stated his
--latest information from party on
the ground was that tho we'll had
been drilled twelve feet deeper into
the sand and there was no improves
ment except little increase h thot
fow-of gas. The well has now been
drilled fourteen feet into the sand
and the owners are waiting for the
shooter to give 1t an eighty-quart
shot. n
II Those Interested In the VOL would
not allow outsiders inside OF the der.
rick while drilling deeper and refused
to show the quality OF the sand nc.
cured while they were drilling deep
ter. There are three feet eight inches
OF oil in the 250-barrel tank. This is
the result Of the flows soon after It
was drilled in and in pumping It at.
short intervals after II was tubed. No.
new work has been started, but Il Is
reported Buffalo parties have ordered
the machinery and viii drill test
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