The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-30
OIL AND GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TRF5TATE
Latest Reports Of Operations In
West Virginia, Pennsy-
vania and Ohio.

a. ~, cioge and not the least was
radnntion ~ tho credit balance mar
w. tu co. ormdo of oil GRADES in the
nv ~ GoiJe rho Joseph Seep
nmrcbastny aponcv saturday morn
i 10 nootod ncu, mutations for all
mradns ~ crude and If was ten cents
49, 81, r. nrjco mai boe prevailed
.Inco March ~ rho reduction was
nnt rnn~noctcd in the face of n re-
% %W n mo mid-continent fields
durinr the early Dart OF the week
ana followod Iater by reduction in
tbo mIddIn Weet Eastern operators
have not hecn unmindful OF the in
crooaod nrodnc+ion in the mId-contl-
nont and costal fields and II was an
ticInatcd that sooner or later the
market would suffer n depression.
Neither fine middle West or the
ooetern falds have in anv way CON
tributcd To rho causc for lowering
tho credit balance market The de-
mand for high grade crude is very
greot ana tho consumptIon is above
production Tho untirinr efforts
made In fine eastern fields 70 secure
new ~nroduction have mt hccn fruit
fuI nor is there any Indication at
this time Of any considerable amount
Of territory caDablc 6f furnishing II.
It Is nm to the operators in the okla
boma md Kansas fields 10 avert n
still further rodnction IN Tho mar
ket.
Field Developments.
The Ohio Fuel OH Company de-
cided to not wait longer on deter
mining the value OF its test on the
John y. Kittengcr farm, iosated on
Cabin creek, Cabin Creek district,
kanawha county, w. Va. Last Fri
day the we'll was drilled through the
BereR grit and then given n shot. 1t
produced seventy-nve barrels the en-
SUNG twenty-four hours. The size
OF the well Is sufficient to warrant
the belief that liberal extension ha4
been added to the Berea grit develop
ment on the Williams Coal Com
pahy property located more than
TWO miles 10 the southwest. About
Gne '', me, 10 the northwest the United
! , uel NaS company has light pro
queer on the Imperial Colliery Com !
the Co,nmhns proJmo,D o%''ie c o!at,.Gt,
has drilIod In Nc NJ 90 - G tTa T,n
llams Coal Comnonv;v 90 tp, O4 o eIJ W w,
estimated to no rood s"r So %nt q az 10
barrels a dov " ''' y -'i''
Drstoni, Uo,,
WbIIa tLo nrna"a aloi Houhty'
sion to tba Co ~ H"p p iol an eN'eh-
enconT,oi n 49, a oieeN poOl are very
~ tba + ~ F., 'Ho S'i'le cannot DC SAID
Nont's r,'m r'' 80 ueyel0pment on
rion connty w. thio gu uIS'tic' Ma
mar an rHm,on,. us us poU I,, me Del
90 on 40 '"' las mas ul!Lleu IT'S NO
foat into tba thJ, 10y lNliii eieVen
now sbonn az .m'' III, ~ ~ Sa"u' ana IL
i'm nroI Ilo" 1-; w. I'1,lr W., Unless u
mai ,,oI,o ~ uJopei VI ming II Will
Iocation 70 nr p"' cm6 t rms
one-timo % a UI'S wv leet west OF me
.botbam go $50 T,o on lne Higgln,
m thn rIa ", ~ ca,. ne SnOwlng no. ~
onnointmont '| so III - ~ mating Is as
nrnvin,it-, ~ 49,, t ~ IeaSoh Oh ilS
nroJmctior % WI 'utl n"u an ihitlal
ra aGN "''''" VI ilo'e 'nah I,oVV bar
"aSSer In Wetzcl County.
Oh flsh creek, Church district,
Melzel county, the Carnegie Natural .
vas company completed test on the
ola 9oles tarm' and 1t is a gasser
!" the GORDON sand. On Long Drain /
run, IN the same district the Phila-
uelphla company got a MaXon sand
gasser at its second test on the w. |
=. Garner farm. On the Fish creek,
Grant district, the Hope Natural Gas
Company completed second test on
Tue j. d. H1nderman farm, and has a
s'SSer IN the Gordon sand.
On spring run Grant district
lHtchie county, o, Z Grow COM
pleted NO. - an the West Virginia
Petroleum tract and secured very
i'ght pumper. on Cob run, in the
same district G, W. Reese & Co /
drllleu a second test on the Amos
george farm through the salt sand, |
%nu II SHOWS LOT small pumper. On
Long run, IN the same district, the
banGo on company Is drilling a test
On the parsonage farm.
bet"eeh 'he Sisterville and Mata-
InoraS helas, IN Union district, Tyler
county . T. Lowe d Co. drilled a
S ,gSt on me a. hice rarm through the
NJ maNoh SAND, ana gave IT shot, and
II Is showing ior small dark oil pro
uuceF' -, on hIch"ood run Grant dis
[ric', Me'@el county, the lockwood
W I NVmP"ny oFliied NO on the