The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-06-19
OIL AND GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TRI-STATE
Latest Reports OF Operations 10
West Virginia, PenhsN-
vania and Ohio.

The week OF development work in
the eastern fields ended with the great
est interest conferred in the Hope Nat
ural Gas Company's new discovery
In sherman district, Calhoun county.
W. Va. The we'll has not been drilled
any deeper since last Thursday and
on that day flowed sixteen barrels and
fifteen barrels the next day. Its status
as producer will not be determined
until after the casing has been set,
the pipe line connection made and the
we'll drilled deeper. II will probably
he several days before they will re-
sumo drilling. In the meantime oper-
ators are specializing as TO what the
drilling in OF this well will lend up to.
At the present time it is the consensus
Of opinion that II is the fOrerunner Of
a new pool and some go so far as to
express the opinion that new devel-
opment the equal OF Roane county is
about to be introduced.
In the village OF Pine Grove, Grant
district, Wetzel county, Myers, Stone
and Company have drilled their we'll
on the c. NJ. Stone twelve-acre lot
into the MaXon sand and It is showing
for u ten barrel pumper. The oil is
black but light in gravity. On Straight
creek, Burning Springs district, Writ
county, the South Penn Oil Company
completed No. Is on the A. 3. Wilson
farm and It is good for FIVE barrels a
day in the salt sand.
In Murphy district. Richie county,
Cochran and Funk have drilled No
II on the McGregor heirs farm
through the salt sand and have fif-
teen barrel pumper in that formation.
GRSSerS In Harrison County.
On Halls run. Tenmile district,
Harrison county. Carter, Sheets and
Jarvis completed second test on the
william Jarvis farm. II is fair. gas
ser in the Gordon stray sand. On
Katy Lick run. Sardis district. the
Peerless Carbon Company has COM
pleted Nos. and { on the Post-Ward
farm. The first Is gasser in the Big
Injun sand and the second a fair
gasser in the Gordon formation.
In Frcemnn's creek district, Lewis
county, the South Penn Oil Company
drilled No. on the John Kennedy
farm through the Gantz sand and 1t is
good for ten barrels day. In Salt
Lick district. BraXton county, located
four miles south of the South Penn Oil
Company's wells on the l.. w. MoNair
farm. the Philadelphia Company drill
ed It's wildcat on the H. u. Hoover
farm through all sands and found
nothing. Two and one-half miles
south OF the McNair farm wells, the
Philadelphia Company's test on the
II. l.. Lloyd farm is a gasser in the
Gordon sand
Drilling Test Wells.
On StillhuuSe run. Tenmile district
Harrison county, the Victoria OIL Com
pany is drilling a test on the II. c.
Spindle farm. on Indian run in the
same district. Ernest Randolph and
Company have the material on the
ground At location on the George
r. Nuzum farm. The WAyland Oil and
Gas Company is due in the Gordon on
the Edith A. tSout farm. located on
Kid run. GreenbrIer district, Dodd-
ridge county. On Tar Kiln run. the
same company is building rig on
the Michael ShauEnessy farm.
On Tanners creek, Troy district.
Gilmer county, r. G. Gillespie has
started TO drill a test on the Britton-
Hursman farm. The Fisher OIL Com
pany is drilling AT l 900 feet at its test
on the Margaret Smith farm. located
on Prices Fork OF Fishing creek.
Grant district. Wctzel county. In
SprinEhill township. Greene county.
Pa. there Is quite n little new work
starting. Within tho next two weeks
there will he eight or ten wells under
way in that township.
Southeastern Ohio.
The rounding out Of the weeks de-
vclopment work in the southeastern
Ohio fields brought nothing better
than light bumpers. except for fair
producer in the deep sand territory in
Falls Gore township, Hooking county.
The well is the Blackstone Oil Com
pany's No. on the Elizabeth Nixon
farm, located in the northuwest quar-
ter Of section % and Is showing for
forty barrel producer in the Clinton
sand. In Ward township. Hooking
county, y. L. c. Kachelmncher has