The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-07-01

Roane county, the Roane Develop
ment Company has completed a second
test on the ]. f. Post farm and it is
not good for more than four barrels
day. In the same district, the Column
bia OIL Company Of West Virginia has
the rig completed for No. l6 on the ].
S. BrannOn farm.
South of the gusher on the Higgin-
botham farm in Marion district, Ma
rion county, the Delmar OIL Company
drilled its No. 20 on the A. ]. Hays
farm. dry in the S0-foot, to the fourth
sand aud developed a good gasser in
the lower sand. In the same district,
the Chalmers Oil and Gas Company
is due in the 30-foot sand at 4 test on
the Simon Moore farm. On BartholO-
new Run, Marion county, the South
Penn Oil Company has put No 5>On
the Nancy L. Murray farm to pumping
and it is producing ten barrels a day.
The Hope Natural Gas Company
drilled a test on the l. B. Wright farm,
located on Jacks Run, Clay district,
Monongalia county, through the Big
lnjun sand and has a good gasser in
that formation. On the Little Kan
awha river. Sherman district. Cal
houn county, the same company's test
on the W. F. Barnes farm is pumping
and producing twenty-five barrels a
day.
In Duvall district, Lincoln county,
the South Penn Oil Company complete
ed Nos. SO and 81 on the Horse Greek
tract. The first is good for ten and
the last fifteen barrels a day. The
South Penn Company is increasing Its
operations on this tract. 1t contains
II 900 acres and the South Penn is
drilling and has rigs up and locations
made up to No. TO- The best Of the
wells completed have not exceeded
fifteen barrels, but the producing for
nation is regular and dry holes have
not been encountered. During the de-
velopment OF the Lincoln county field
the South Penn Company did some
work on this tract, but the wells were
so small that operations were discOn-
tinued until recently. Notwithstand-
ing the wells are light the company
has worked up nice production.
Southeastern Ohio,
In the deep sand territory in south
eastern Ohio, located in the northern
end of the field in Licking township,
Muskingum county, the Columbus Oil
and Fuel Company has a show for a
buster at its second test on the r. L.
Schumacher farm. The we'll has been
drilled thirty-five feet into the Clinton
sand and at that depth shows no oil.
The location is 900 feet south Of the
first test.
In Hanover township, Licking coun-
". the Edward II. Everett Company's
test on the F. G. Shipley farm is
through the Clinton sand and unless
II improves with shot will not make
better than a very light pumper This
location is 2.3OO feet north Of the
same company's test on the Frank Nc
Kee farm. In the northwest quarter
Of section 80, Falls Gore township,
Hooking county, the Griffin Producing
Company's test on the VI. +. Linton
farm found but ten feet Of Clinton
sand and very little oil. 1t will not
make, IL anything, better than very
light pumper. The CHARTERS OIL
Company's test on the W, II. Sweezy
farm. located in the southwest quar-
ter Of section IS, Greene township,
found but seventeen feet Of Clinton
sand and Is showing for a five or
ten-barrel pumper. The location Is
400 feet northeast Of the Fisher OIL
Company's fair producer on the Laura
A. Iastie farm.
Southwest Pennsylvania.
In the Graysville district Aleppo
township, Greene county, Pa, orndoh
pros have drilled q test on their OWL