The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-05-27


Ralph Brothers and the Columbia
Drilling Company are due in the
Clinton sand at test on the Lake
Ruchin farm. Ralph Brothers frst
test on the Alien Thompson farm and
their second test on the Frank John
son farm will be due in the sand next
week. r. E. Bennett and Company
are down 100 feet at q test on the
r. e. Bennett farm.
Shallow Territory.
The wells In the producing list In
the shallow sand districts are dis.
couragingly light. In the Payne dis
trict. Lawrence township, Washing
ton county. the 8. 8. and B. B. OIL
Company drilled test on the John
T. Taylor farm through the Big In
jun sand and 1t is showing for a
ten-barrel pumper. In the Reas Run
district. Grandview. township, Wash
ington county, Roberts, Drollinger
and McGraw completed and have a
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Phoebe McMahan farm. 1t was
drilled through the Big Injun sand.
In the same district in Independence
township, Best and Company drilled
their test on the Wilson farm through
the Squaw sand and had no better
luck than In the upper formations,
all of which were barren. In the
same township the Bradfeld heirs
are drilling in the MRxon sand at
No. 2 on their own farm and 1t ia
showing for a fifteen-barrel pumper.
In the Corning district, Monroe
township, Perry county, Thomas
O'Connor and Company completed
No. Z on the Fred Weaver farm and
1t is good for five barrels in the
Berea grit. In the same develop
ment, John Amberg is drilling No.
on his own farm. In Bearfield town
ship. Powell, Bair and Company are
drilling a second test on the ]. B.
Gribble farm and H. q. Schmidt and
Company have the rig completed for
a test nthe L. F. Holcomb farm.
The Lower Southwest.
Light wells continue in West vir-
ginia. Near Rosedale, Birch district,
Braxton county, @. N. Snedgrass
drilled his test on the l.. e. SHREDDER
farm through the Salt sand. 1t is a
light gasser with q capacity of 250.-
900 cubic feet a day. Braxton coun-
ty shows an increase In development
work. In Union district, Peasants
county, the Simmons Oil Company's
No. 6 on the j. E. Kemp farm is
good for four barrels a day In the
Big fnjun sand.
on McElroy creek, McElroy dis
trict. Tyler county, the Chambers oil
and Gas Company drilled a test on
tho S. P. Lemasters farm through the
Big Injun sand and 1t shows for a
ten-barrel pumper. This location is
about 1900 feet east Of the same
company's test on the A. ]. Martin
farm.
Light bumpers in ,Roane County.
On Green creek, Walton district,
Roane county, the Louis F. Payne Oil
Company completed and shot No. 10
on the /. L. Summers farm and has
an eight-barrel pumper in the Big
1njun sand. On the same stream in
Harper distrirt, the United Fuel Gas
Company's test on the Nancy Painter
farm is a duster In all sands. In
Smithfield district, the South Penn
OIL Company drilled No. on the ].
L. Terrell farm through the Big In
jun sand and 1t shows for five-bar-
rel pumper.
Just. a Small One in Beaver.
In the Kendall pool. Hanover town
ship, Beaver county. Pa. Yolton.
Jones q Company completed No. four
on the ]. 8. and A. NJ. Buchanan
farm. It Is a light pumper, good for
two or three barrels q day. On q
part of the same. farm, Pittsbure
parties are drilling test at 500 feet.
In the same township, the South Penn
OIL Company. Midland division, after
giving It's No. one on the s. Long
farm found IL would not make q
profitable producer and 1t has been
abandoned.
The oil Markets.
The prices paid for oil Of various
a.