The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-04-02
oil AMID GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TR|-STATE
Latest Reports Of Operations h
West Virginia, Pennsy-
vania and Ohio.

Development work in the eastern
fields during the early part Of the
week was almost featureless and
showed no improvement at the close.
With no thrills in the way OF new
discoveries and the market station
ary there was less interest than at
any tire for nun her Of weeks. OPP
orators are growing impatient to start
new work and only the scarcity of
producing territory prevents them
from starting at once. The advent
of spring weather inspires the desire
to resume operations and the old dis
tricts will be the first to receive at
tention. The desire for new produc-
tion is accentuated by the high mar
ket for crude and operators will not
hesitate to go after a source OF new
production when the conditions are
favorable. New work Is starting in
the old districts and the prelfminar-
les for more are under way. The
year promises to be one of unusual
activity. The old fields will be drilled
wherever there is a location. Light
wells will be the result Of this kind
OF work and frequently the -produc-
tion derived from old wells in the
immediate localities.
Owing to the scarcity Of new pro-
ducing territory, producers are hold
ing on to their properties and few are
offered for sale. Those who express
a willingness to part with their prop
critics have fixed the price so high
that a would-be purchaser will not
consider 1t. Very little settled pro-
duction is offered at less than $4,000
barrel and in some localities the
asking price is above $4,000. The
value placed on old producing prop
critics is now higher than at any time
In the history Of the industry. The
cause can be attributed to two things,
the future of he business was
never SO bright, owing to the in
increasing demand for crude and the
scarcity Of new producing territory.
The producer is aware of the fact
that he would be at loss to know
where to secure another property and
that would presage HIS retirement.
Those who have operated in the east
ern fields are not all inclined to try
conclusions in the West and that
seems to be the most promising sec
ton.
In the West Virginia fields the Lou
denville Oil Company has completed
its initial test we'll on the B. J.. Par
sons farm, located in Liberty district,
Marshall county, and has twenty
five barrel per day producer from the
Gordon sand.
In Elk district. Kanawha county,
the South Pen Oil Company is drill
ing in the sand at its w. A. McCorkle
farm No. well and it is showing for
better than 100 barrel producer.
Braxton County Producer.
The West Virginia OIL Company
has completed its initial test we'll on
the Gerwig farm, in otter district,
Braxton county and has ten bar
rel per day producer from the Salt
sand.
The Hope Natural Gas Company
has completed its third test well on
the Harriet Lowther farm, located In
Union district. Harrison county, and
has a thirty-barrel pumper from the
Gordon sand. This we'll made an ini-
tial flow of fifty barrels after striking
the pay.
In the same district and county, the
Hope Natural Gas Company has COM
pleted It's second test well on the A..
c. Moore farm and has five barrel
pumper in the Gordon sand.
In Central district. Doddridge
county, the Hope Natural Gas Com
pany has completed Its second test
we'll on the L. NJ. Pitts farm and has
good gasser from the Big Injun
sand. This well is located 900 feet
northwest OF the same company's In
itial test on this farm.
Buster in Hancock County.
In Grant district. Hancock county,
near the old Moscow field, the Hooten
OIL Company has completed its mi.
tial test we'll on the Mary NJ. Aiken
farm through the Berea grit and 1t is
a dry hole.
On the waters of Frozen Camp, in
Curtis district. Roane county, the
United Fuel Gas Company has COM
pleted its initial test well on the
Stewart McCready farm and has a
good gasser.
The Philadelphia Gas Company has
completed its well on the Mary M.
Sherry farm, located on the waters
OF Meat House Creek, in Greenbrier
ulSLTlCl, SSuhsy' stA1 >@"eS y
fair gasser in the Injun sand.
On Buckeye Fork, in Union dis
trict, Harrison county, the Hope Nat
ural Gas Company has completed Its
well on the J. NJ. Morris farm and
has a Gordon sand gasser.
On Dillans Run, in the same dis
trict and county, the Reserve Gas
Company has completed well on
the I. S. POUCH farm and has fair
gasser in the Fifth sand.
In the Denis Creek development. in
Clay district. Richie county. the I'm
perial OIL, Gas and Producing Com
pany's second test on the w. S.
Keith lease is still producing at the
rate of 40 barrels per day.
Southeastern Ohio. ~,
On the Ohio side in the Haydens-
vile field there has been an impor-
tant addition in the completion of
an initial test we'll by the Ohio Fuel
Supply Company on the Elizabeth
| Stiars farm located in the northwest