The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-01-04
OIL AND GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TR|-STATE
latest Reports Of Operations 10
West Virginia, PennsyI-
vania and Ohio.

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the market has now reached point
where 1t is no longer advisable 20
continue paying storage an their oil
and are beginning to sell their pro-
duction. Some producers ahaye been
holding their oil since the market
began to advance last August.
During the last week nthe old
year West Virginia producers alone
sold credit balances approximating
75O 900 barrels, and Of the Present
market price Of crude the sales
amounted to almost $1,697,500. For
some time refners have claimed that
they were unable to get sufficient
crude to keep them running to their
full capacity.
Field Developments.
Development work in the eastern
fields at the beginning Of the year
furnished nothing better than light
producers. In Grant district, Richie
county. w. Va, the Wallace OIL
Company got q fairly good producer
at It's second test on the Wade Ham
ilton farm. The nell was started
for Keener sand pay, but when 1t was
drilled into the Maxon sand 1t started
to fill up and at the expiration OF
the first to nhours had 1000 feet OF
fluid in the hole. 1t Is claimed that
1t will be good for forty barrels a
day.
On the north fork Of Hughes river,
Murphy district, Richie county, the
Woodrow Oil Company drilled Its NO.
S on the Martha Smith farm into the
salt sand and has a six-barrel pump
err On OH Spring dun, Grant DIS
trlct. the Junior Oil Company has
drilled No. 9 on the West Virginia
tract through the salt sand and 1t Is
very light pumper in that fornla-
ton.
Light Jumpers In a New Pool.
In the new Big Injun sand pool on
Fishing creek, seven miles west OF
Pine Grove, Green district, Wetzel
county. the New Martlnsville on
Company drilled its No. 10 on the
S. l.. Morgan farm through the Big
Injun sand and will not have better
than a ten-barrel pumper. In the
same district, T. C. Kingsley and
Company drilled No. on the j. ..
Whiteman farm through the SAME
formation and had the same kind OF
luck.
On Broad run, McClelland district,
Doddridge county, the Carnegie Ma
tural Gas Company has drilled a Sec
ond test on the Marshall Ash farm
through the Gordon sand and secured
the best gasser that has been found
in that locality for a number OF
months. The location 70 1900 feet
northeast of No. ! on the same farm
Near Salem, Harrison county, the
Demo OIL and Gas Company cleaned
out and shot Its old No. on the M. j.
Holden farm and increased Its pro-
duction from two to ten barrels a
day.
On Blue creek. elk district, Ka>
nawha county, the Ohio Fuel Cou-
pany shot Nos. and 7 on the Ander-
son farm and the ensuing twenty-four
hours they produced fifty-five and
twenty barrels. respectively. Both
had dropped down to five barrels
day.
On the West Fork river, Union dis
trict, Harrison county, the Philadel-
phia Company drilled Its test on the
w. B. Maxwell farm, formerly
gasser in the Thirty-foot sand, to the
Gordon sand and has a ten-barrel
pumper. On Fish creek, Grant dis
trict. Wetzel county, the same COM
pany drilled test on the M. Barr
farm into the Big Injun sand and has
n fair gasser. On Long Drain run,
Church district, the same company
has Maxon sand gasser at its test
on the s. S. Carney farm.
Light Pumper in Wood County.
On Rock Camp run, Clay district,
Wood county, Wharton Brothers and
tho Reed Oil and Gas Company
drilled No. 20 on the Caroline Whar-
ton farm through the second Cow
run sand and has light show OF oil
in that formation. On Plum run,
Murphy district. the Hope Natural
Gas Company drilled a second test on
the D. M. V. Phillips farm through
the Big Injun sand and found nothing
but will give 1t shot in the Maxon
sand and may get a light pumper.
Southwest Pennsylvania.
Light wells are the offering in the
southwest Pennsylvania fields. In
the Mt. Morris district, Dunkard
township, Greene county, Jesse L,
arrard has drilled his test on the Mil
ton Donley farm through the Big In
jun sand and 1t is a light gasser.
At West View, Allegheny county,
Braden and Company drilled their
we'll on the cemetery lot through the
1OO-foot sand and found 1t barren.
They will drill to the lower sands.
Light Gasser in City Limits.
In the Fourteenth ward Of the city,
near Browns Station, James Ward
has drilled we'll on the Samuel
Brown farm through the sand and
developed light gasser. The well
was drilled with view Of getting
supply of gas for fuel at Mr.. Wards
residence, but the supply is inade-
quate and he will have another well
drilled on the same lot.
Near Cooks Ferry, Beaver county,
Pa, in Greene township, Laughlin
and BARLEY have now drilled their
test on the Charles Ferguson farm