The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-21
OIL AND GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TRI-STATE
Latest Reports Of Operations In
West Virginia, Pennsyl-
Vania and Ohio.

Another ton cent advance in tho
credit balance market yesterday
brought the quotation for crude Of tho
Pennsylvania grade up 10 $3.50, the
high point reached on March II and
maintained until July 20, when II
started TO decline and ON August is
touched go. Tho thrco recent ad-
vanccs OF ton ccnts each, restores all OF
the loss and operators and producers
are much elatcd over the upward turn.
When the Joseph seep Purchasing
Agency opened yesterday morning all
eastern grades wcro marked up ten
vents, except Ragland, which was adj
vauced Ave conts.
The last advance in the market will
to IN extent stimulate greater activity
in the fields Operators have main
tninod that they could not drill in tho
kind Of territory at hand ON low
market. but VIII now renew the effort
In the old fields and aagin take up the
search for new producing territory
There will probably not be great
deal Of that kind OF work started this
fall and winter but with the return
OF spring there will bc general
effort made in that direction.
On Coon run, Mcclellan district,
Doddridgc county, w. Va, the Carter
on Company drilled It's No. . on the
W. r. Foley farm through tho big
InJun sand and showing for ten
barrel pumper In the Burning Springs
district. Writ county. Roberts Brothers
| completed and shot Nos. % and gS on
the Rathbonc tract and both are light
bumpers in the first Cow Run sand.
on the Little Kanawha river, Sher-
man district, Calhoun county, the Hope
.atural Gas Company drilled second
test on tho q. Rice farm into what
is thought to DO the Big Injun sand
and II is showing for an oil producer
The sand was reached at n depth OF
2,169 feet and as soon as the well
began to show oil drilling was sus-
pended to erect tankage. This loca-
ton is two and one-half miles north
east of tho same company's test on
the Daniel Huffman farm, completed
several months ago and showed for a
good producer.
Shooting old wells is OF frequent
occurrence in the old fields. Operators
are LAYING nothing undone to keep
the old producers giving up their
maximum of production. In Union
district, Clay county, the United Fuel
Gas Company gave No. on the Frank
| Cox farm a shot and Increased its pro-
duction from five to thirty-flye barrels
day In the old Blue creek field,
Elk district. Kanawha county, all OF
the old wells have been shot one or
more times Shooting helps for tImo
but the wells soon drop back to or be-
low their former production. A large
number of the old wells in this dis
trict have been pulled out and aban-
doned.
Buster on Dents Run.
In the Thirty foot development on
Dents run, Warrington district, Mar
10 county, tho Chalmers Oil and Gas
Company drilled its test on the Jones
heirs farm through the sand and
found 1t barren. This location is one
half mile east Of the big producer on
the Hlgginbotham farm. In the upper
end of the field the old wells are CON
sistent producers as the following
gauges show: +. w. Bartlett No
2. E. Batson, 265 barrels: Delmar Oil
Company No. "a John l.. Hays, 372 bar
rels; Hickman and Huffman No. 3 AL
fred Kendall. $40 barrels; South Penn
Oil Company No. 2 Hoard-Batson. 1854
barrels. and Clayton OIL Company No.
w. q. Hays. ninety barrels.
IngMcKim district, Peasants county,
the Engle Run Oil Company has FIVE
barrel pumper in the Cow Run sand at
No. 10 on the A. j. Holdren farm. In
tho same district the Octo Oil Com
pany's No. "a on the NJ. f. Holdren
farm is duster in the Cow Run sand.