The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-10-29
OIL AND GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TRI-STATE
va
Latest Reports of Operations In
West Virginia, PennsyI-
Vania and Ohio.

At tho close OF the weei, thcre waR
no departure from routine m develop
ment work in ihe eastern fields Few
Ncompletions we're reported from ans
kseetion and all Of the most ordinary
kind. Throughout the week the market
Eremained stationary and the only ia
Innovation was the drilling IN of an
hotheT glisher in the DENTS run pool iu
Warrington district. Marion COUNTY
W. Va. The well is + " RartlcttP
no. z on the 4 T. Raison farm and il
had an initial production higher than
amy other well completed in the pool
lat times the production ran up ia 100
FbarrelS an hour and for the twenty
-four hours ending al O'Clock yostcr-
day morning placed 500 barrels 70
Dts credit Figuring The production
of this one wel-less onr-eighth ROY
ahy-at $3.50 barrel and 1t VIII hc
Seen that II is biE money maker
The first we'll on the So ne farm is SIN
holding up at 2a5 barrels day aud has
produced more oil Than any other IN
the pool
At the time the lease WAS taken on
hhe Batson farm il was not considered
IA very good prospect The Ear right
Non the farm was sold to the Phhadel-
,phia Company and the well was drilled
5olntly by that company and f w..
Bartlett. II was agreed II the we'll
proved Easser It was IN 90 to the
sPhiladelphin Company and that COM
epany to pay the cost of drilling In
hhe event IL proved an oil producer Mr.
bartlett was 10 take tho we'll and pay
the cost Of drilling and both were 10
sshare equally in the loss II duster.
The second we'll completed is mig
nnjun sand producer and has not been
l7lrilled down 10 The Thirty foot forma-
5tion. The production Of the pool =
aabout 2IoO barrels day Holders NJ
sleases are rushing development work
The prospect for gushers and the mar
rket at $3.50 is all tha, Is required 10
finspire operators 10 mt forth Their
/, hest efforts. For The neXt month dc-
lVelOpment work viii ne very active
sIickman and Huffman are drilling Nos.
i. : and on the Alfred Kendall farm.
# " Bartlett Is drilling Nos and >
.on the n. Z. Baison farm The Clayton
oil Company has rigs UP FOR Nos. l
and on the Sarah HAYS farm and the
Delmar Oh Company is drilling Nos
81. % and - on the John l.. lays
farm The South Penn oil Company
has started 10 drill No. ? on tho Hoard
Batson farm and drilling Nos = and $
and rigs completed for : and 5 on the
NJ. NJ. Kendall farm. It viii he some
little time before there will he any
more wells due in the pool and u is
quite probable that the production will
not go higher than previously re
rorded ...
In Freeman Greek district. Lewis
county. the Carnegie Natural Gas
Company drilled a test on the J Il.
Rinehart farm through all sands and
IL is dry, In the same district TN"
Hope Natural Gas Company i due
in the sand AT tests on the W. H.
Means. H. G. Spurgeon and William
Cole farms. In Greenbrier district.
Doddrldge county. the Carnegie Ma
tural Gas Company has started 10
drill a test on the Adams heirs farm
on Rock Camp run. SerdiS district.
Harrison county. Huffman mud Dec
gan are testing their we'll on the L..
J.. Stewart farm in the flith sand
on Elk Fork. Harper district, Roans
county. the United Fuel Gas Com
papy developed some oil n thc Salf
sand at test on The u y Cox
farm aud are testing il in mat tnrma
lion. II failure hey Will arm ~
the lower sands.
Drilling and Starting Tests.
on Rush run. Cove district pod
bridge county. the Hope Natural Gas
Company IL due in the sand 81 fest
on the W VI. Cole farm. Tic same
company il due in ths Fifth sand AZ