The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-06
OIL AND GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TRI-STATE
Latest Reports Of Operations in
West Virginia, PennSyI-
vania and Ohio.

The weekend Of development WORK
in the eastern fields failed to reveal
any sensational strikes, consequently
operators and producers discussed the
decline in the crude market and tho
possibility OF further depreciation
Looked at from the viewpoint of tho
present production and consumption
Of high grade crude, eastern opera
tors are OF the opinion that the east
ern market for crude OF the PennSyl'
yania grade cannot consistently be re-
| duccd at the same ratio as the west
crn product. The reduction OF tho
credit balance market will have q
tendency to diminish work in the
eastern fields. There will be less ac,
tiyity in development work and not
n very great effort made to find new
producing territory. The loss oil
| twenty cents barrel, representing
the two cuts IN the eastern fields
will cause a slowing down of deve!
opmcnt work in the deep sand terri,
tory but the effect Of the decline VIII
be less noticeable in the shallow sand
| districts.
The week of development work in
the southwest Pennsylvania, WeSt
Virginia and southeastern Ohio helds
furnished nothing of sensational
nature. What little Of importance
| came at the close Of the week when
| the Forblng Drilling Company driIlG
in fine Clinton sand producer, lo93.E
cd in the Brnkhnycn dcyclopmeA
in Jefferson township, Knox county
Ohio The well Is this company's IN
itiaI test on the n. w Robinson farm
located south of production on the
w. A. Barnes farm. The well is good
for 200 barrels a day and will do bet
ter inter it has been shot. There has
been quite a little testing In that To-
cality but none of the compilations
as good as the Robinson farm we'll
Nothing in the northern end OF
the deep sand field has caused so
much Of a furry rs the well on the
Robinson farm. Holders Of leases In
that locality are losing no time In
starting new work. One-half mile
northwest of production on the w, a.
Barnes farm. David Upham has made
the location for a test on the Charles
Slate farm. Between the Robinson
farm and Noe on the Barnes farm,
Kachemacher and Company have
made the location for test on the
Charles Hibbitts farm. Southwest oil
production on tho Barnes farm I'M
Richland township. Holmes county,
the Brinkhaven Oil Company has
made location on the Inglehart
Brothers farm. South of this location
100 feet, the Forbing Drilling Com
panv has made a location on the H.
Major farm. After these wells have
been started and near the producing
formation interested will be trans
ferred from the southern to the
northern end of the field
The northern end of the field has
been increasing development work
and there is more validating In that
than in any other part Of the deep
sand territory. In the event that
test work now starting in Knox and
Holmes county proves satisfactory II
will be the first extension discovered
since the first of the year, Vinton
county for a time looked promising
but the prospects are not so encourg-
ing. In the old Junction City field,
Jackson township. Perry county,
Murphy Murrin Company's No. 2 on
the P. ]. Smith farm is holding up
at 100 barrels a day. In Coshocton
county there is some test work start
ing. In section 6, Linton township,
located about three and one-halI
miles northwest of production, the
Pleasant Hill Oil and Gas Company
is starting test on the w. c. Wer2
farm.