The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-08-15

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sand and the hole has filled up 1906
feet with fluid.
Gasser in Brooke County.
Near Wellsburg, Buffalo district
Brooke county, the Rockledge OIL Com
pany drilled It's test on the O. o. Kirch-
ncr farm into the Kcener sand and de-
ycoped gair gasscE Near Holidays
Cove, Butler district Hancock county
the Hooker Oil and Gas Company com
plcted No. s on the h. A. McAbee farm
and it shows for very light pumper
in the Berea grit.
On Gillespie run, Grant district
Richie county, the Sycamore OIL Com
pany completed NO 9 on the william
Shuttleworth farm and it is dry in the
Big Injun SAID. On Long run in the
same district, the BandO OIL Company's
test on the c. l.. Cain farm Is through
the Salt sand and showing very little
OIL On Third run Houke and Broda
have now drilled their test on the B,
+. Patton hairs farm through the
Squaw sand and il good for anything
1t will be very light pumDcr On
Cabin run, Clay district, the Carnegie
Natural Gas Company's test on the
Broadwater Brothers farm Is a gasser
in the Big Injun sand
Cochran and Funk's no 70 on the
McGrcgor heirs farm produced sixty
barrels the first twenty-fOur hours
after it was drilled through the Salt
sand. On Big Panther run, NcKim dis
trIct, Pleasants county Rinchart and
Gore drilled No. on the Written
Stewart farm through the Big lnjun
sand and found nothing but n light
show OF oil in the MQxon sand. II will
be plugged below that formation and
tested
Lincoln County COMPETITIONS.
Lincoln county is completing a good
many wells Of the usual kind. on
Buckeye fork Of CObb's creek, Wash
ington district, the Eaglcr Oil and Gas
Company is starting No. Q on the
Walter Hall farm. On Laurel fork Of
Horse creek the United Fuel Gas Com
pany drilled No. IA on the Horse Creek
Coal and Land CompanN's property
through the Berea grit and it shows for
a ten barrel pumper On Porter fork
the Soul Penn oil Company's no. 5S
on the Horse Creek tract Is showing
for fifteen barrel pumper.
Southeastern Ohio.
In the deep sand territory in Pike
township, Perry county, Ralph Broth
ers drilled a second test on the Ray
mond Flowers farm through the Gin
ton sand and It is good for ten barrels
q dav. In jackson township Murphy.
lIurnm and Gompany's No 2 on the P.
/ Smith farm is holding up al eighty
eight barrels day. Southwest of pro-
duclion 500 feet in Hopewell town
shin. Licking county, the Columbus oil
and Fuel Company is building a rig
fora test on the NJ. r, Porter farm
One mile north of production in Fair
field township, Washington county, i.
stcpbcns has drilled a second test on
the Wayne Edgerton farm into the
NIayon sand and 1t shows for a fifteen
barrel pumper This will call out some
work in that locality In
Monroe township. Muskingum county
Giles and HARRISON have completed NO.
70 on the Mrs. Alylra SDrague farm
and it is showing for a light pumper
in the Rerea grit.
Southwest Pennsylvania.
In the Campbell district, hleppO
township. Greene county. Cochran and
Frnk's we'll on the John Riggs heirs
farm is down to fifty barrels a day.
They will give it a shot The nearest
to this well is thrce-iourths
Of mile southeast Of the Griffith
farm. In the Gravsville district the
Natural Gas COMPANY Of West Virginia
drilled its test on the J, A. Rush farm
into the Ninevah thrtv-foot sand and
drvoIoned gasser with a caDapity Of
6 OOO 600 cubic feet a day. Two miles
southwest of Georgetown. Green town
shin. Beaver county. f. A. Froshwater
and Company have completed No 4 on
he Cvpthia Rovd form. and II is dry.
The oil Market.
The prices paid for oil Of various
GRADES by the purchasing agencies
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