The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-25
Latest Reports Of Operations in
West Virginia, PennSyI-
vania and Ohio.

Of almost 100000 barrels month.
At the mouth of Steer creek. Sher'
man district. Calhoun county W,
Va. the Hope Natural Gas Company
drilled its wildcat on the Huffman
Barnes farm is feet deeper into the
Big Injun sand and it produced for
tv-fiye barrels the ensuing twenty
four hours. They are still drlllihs
but 1t Is not likely that another pay
Will be encountered. This is the well
that was drilled in about a month
ago and caused good deal Of e%-
element.
Gassers In Roane County.
On Green creek, Harper district,
Roane cornty, the Sidney Oil and
Gas Company completed a test on
the Thomas Ashby farm and got a
100000 feet northwest of this well,
the same company got the same kind
of gaseer at test on the j. T.
Ray farm. The same company's test
on the Elijah Taylor farm is showing
for a gasSer. with an estimated ca
pacitv of $4,000, 900 cubit feet a day.
This location is 1900 feet west Of
the Carter Oil Company's test on the
S. E. Phillips farm.
In Union district Clay county.
the Warne Oil Company drilled No.
10 on the Cornell tract through the
Big Inpun sand and it shows for a
five-barrel pumper. In the same dis
trict, the Ohio Fuel Oil Company
has started to drill test on the OF
to-Bowman tract, located one-half
mile northeast Of the United Fuel
Gas Company's test on the B. T. Bell
farm. On the Porter Fork, Duyal dis
trlct, Lincoln county. the Big Creek
Development Company is drilling NO.
13 on the w. C. KiDgery farm.
Ritchic County Comp etIOns.
On Devil Hole creek, Grant dis
trict. Ritchie county, the D. L.
Brown Oil Company completed and
shot No. s on the Rutherford hears
farm and It shows for twenty-bar-
rel pumper in the salt sand. On Al
dis Run, Grant district. R. G. Gil
lespIe drilled test on the e. Z.
Cokley farm through the Squaw
sand. It will not make paying pro-
Queer. On the Third Run, Union dis
trict, the Hope Natural Gas Compa-
ny's test on the S. C. Meats farm
in a very light pumper in the same
formation. On Harris Run, Clay dis
trict, the same company's test on
the William Denning farm is
through all sand and dry and aban-
dcned. On the south fork of Hugh
es river, Murphy district, the Wood
row Oil Company test on the Marya
Smith farm is a ten-barrel pumper
in the salt sand.
On Middle Run, sardis district,
Harrison sounty, the South Penn OIL
Company drilled No. on the Luth-
er Talkington farm through the
Gordon sand and 1t shows for very
light pumper.
Southeastern Ohio.
In the shallow sand territory on
the Ohio side, in the Reas Run dis
trict. independence township, Wash
ington county, ]. II. Higgins & Co.
completed and shot No. on the
Scott Riggs farm and 1t is Droduc-
ing As barrels a day. In the same
district, Brugacher G Co. drilled No.
| 5 II. Beagle through the Big Injun
sand an dit is a duster. o. S. Reck-
ard & Co.'S test on the John Taylor
farm is through the Keener sand and
showing for a 15-barrel producer
In Fairfield township, i. Stephens
has completed tests on the Harrar
| Goddard and Wade Edgerton FARMS
The first is dry in the Big lnJun
sand and the last In the Berea grit.
/ In Caanan township, Athens county,
Smith & Jones have cleaned out and
put to pumping Nos. /, 2 and 3 cold
wells) on the Robert Smith farm and
they are pumping barrel day
each.
/ The Giles HARRISON No. II on the
Mrs. Alvira sprague farm is through
the Berea grit and dry. In Union
township, Tuscarawas county, Max
Faffee drilled wildcat on the
Charles Marshall farm through the
Perea grit and 1t Is duster. Two
miles north of production in Jack
the Columbus Oil and Fuel Company
started to drill test on the S. P
Divan farm. In Licking township in
the same county, the Columbus on
and Fuel Company completed In the
Clinton sand test on the George
swigert farm and it is showing fol
twenty-barrel producer.
Southwest Pennsylvania.
Development work in the South
!: west Pennsylvania fields is almost
featureless. South OF Duff City, ALE
gheny county, Black and Company
drilled their test on the Croft farm
through the Thirty-foot and Snet
sands and found nothing. They arr
drilling it to the coulder. Beeler anc
Co.'s we'll on the Seibka farm il
down to twenty barrels day. They
have not yet succeeded in casing Of
the salt water,
On Lowrys Run, Allegheny coun'
ty, Marshall and Co.'s test on the