The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-25

ehanSe u convinced tnat the outlook
Is favorable for securing production.
There is no particular section that
looks specially inviting at this time.
Future operations may bring i'm
provement and II there is locality
that looks favora BILE. there will be no
hating in development work.
In Central district, Doddridge
county. the Hope Natural Gas Com
pany drilled its No. on the w. Fl.
Piggott farm. located $500 feet
southwest OF No. ] twenty feet into
the Big Injun sand and II is show
Ing for twenty-barrel producer. On
Buffalo Run. Grant district. Ritchie
county. the American Oil and Gas
Corporation drilled No. on the s.
Tenant farm. through the Salt sand
and 1t is very light pumper.
Gasscr in Monongalia.
On Jake's Run. Clay district, Mon
ongalia county, the Pittsburg and
West Virginia Gas Company has
completed test on the Marian Price
farm. 1t is fair gasser in the gas
sand. On Long Drain Run, Grant
district, WetZel county. the Hope Nat
ural Gas Company's test on the Foun-
tain Smith farm is a gasser. On Big
Elk Creek. Sardis district, Harrison
| county. the same company has COM
pleted test on the Hall Shriver farm
and has gasser. The came company
has drilled test on the II. NJ. Gar
rett farm to depth Of 3.117 feet and
found nothing. 1t will not be drilled
deeper.
j. Deems and Company have now
drilled their test on the w. Il. Tai
bot farm through the Big Injun sand.
II is located on the north fork OF
Hughes river. Grant district, Richie
county and is dry. On Bone Creek
Union district, the Hope Natural Gas
Company has gasser In the Keener
sand at its test on the Prunty heirs
farm. On Slab Creek, Union district,
the Carnegie Natural Gas Company
completed second test on the Albert
Cox farm and has fair gasser In the
Zig Injun sand. On Still well Creek,
Union district, Wood county. the Car
Hugh o'Brlen farm through all sands
and, finding nothing. abandoned the
hole. On Warriors Fork, Warrington
district. Marion county. the Clayton
Oil Company drilled No. 6 on the r.
Evans heirs farm through the Big
Injun sand and has light pumper
/ in that sand. On Dotson Run, Cen
trail district, Doddridge county. Frank
May and Company are due in the sand
at a test on the G. r. Towner farm.
Southeastern Ohio.
In the deep sand territory IN south
eastern Ohio and in the southwest
quarter of section 81 and three
fourts Of mile south Of No. on the
Asa L. O'Neill farm through the Gin
ton sand and has show OF gas but
no oil. This location is In advance
OF the Union furnace pool In Hook
ing county. In Jackson township.
Perry county, Ralph Brothers COM
pleted and shot their No. 3 on the j.
A wager farm and 1t produced sixty
FIVE barrels the first twenty.fonr
hours. West OF Killbuck in Killbuck
township. Holmes county. Church
and Hatfield have drilled a wildcat
on the George Mortz farm through
the Clinton sand. 1t will not make
a paying producer.
Shallow Sand Territory.
| In the Grandview district. indie
pendence township. Washington coun-
ty, P. ]. Townsell and Company have
drilled a second test on the David
Worstall farm through the Keener
sand and have a gasser. In Grandview
township, H. B. Bowden drilled his
| test on the John Wiley farm through
the Berea grit and found 1t barren.
It is fair gasser from the Big IN
| Jun sand. In Independence township.
Watterson and Brown have completed
test on the William Smeltzenbaugh
farm in the Peeker sand. It IS
very light pumper in that formation.
IN the Reas Run district, Indepen-
dence township. ]. H. Higgins and
Company drilled No. on the w. J.,
| Riggs farm through the Maxon sand.
\ 1t is showing for good producer and
will be shot. In the Chesterhill dis
ltrict. Wesley township. ]. T. Dillon
and Company completed second test
on the II. s. McPeak farm. It is To-
Gated north Of production and is dry.
|, In the Macksburg district. Jeffer-
son township, Noble county, the Elba
ION Company drilled a second test on
the John: Denman farm through the
Berea grit and II Is showing for
/ four-barrel pumper. In the same dis
Itrict and township, Henderson and
Company drilled their test on the
John a. Pryor, farm through the
Buell. Run sand. The location is 500