The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-19
OIL and GAS
development
OF TRI-STATE
Latest Reports Of Operations In
West Virginia, Pennsyl-
Vania and Ohio.

The way the Carnegie Natural Cas-
Gompany's No. on the George Isim-l
niger farm located On Coon rum
Springhill township, Greene county,
Pa. is holding up confirms the opin-!
ion that { is drawing its productions
from {; pool OF no small dimensions.
For the twenty-four hours ending att
z o'clock yesterday morning the we'll
produced 500 barrels. During the
same period the No. . on the same
farm produced twenty-five barrels.
| This showing is duise sufficient TO
warrant the starting of the large
amount or new work contemplated
in that locality. During the first part
of the new year the new development
in Greene county will likely be the
stellar attraction in the eastern fields.
AT tire present time there is no other
section in the East that looks so
promising for large wells. The last
i pool OF any considerable magnitude,
located in the southwest Pennsy1van-
in fields, was the Dorseyvil1e district
lin Allegheny county. That was two
years and a half ago and ii did not
| last long After it had been defined
1t was confined to q small area and
the wells declined rapidly.
West Virginia.
The Dents Run pool in Warrington
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| completing better than light produce
ers. In this district. the South Penn.
| Oil Company has drilled its No. Ia on.
1.-the NJ Nv. Kendall farm into the Big
Injun sand and it shows for twenty
ty-barrel producer. It will not be
drilled deeper at this time. In the
same district the Carter Oil Company.
drilled 4 test on the Sarah Hays farm
deep into the Thirty-foot sand and
the hole filed up 500 feet with fluid.
It will make a light producer.
The old wells in the pool have de-
clined. Those producing fifty or more
barrels day are as follows: q. w,
Bartlett Nos. and 3. 2. e. Batson.
seventy and IT'S barrels respectively;
Hickman and Hoffman No. 5 Alfred
| Kendall sixty-two barrels; South
Penn Oil Company No. 3. M. ~. Ken
dali fifty barrels; and Delmar OIL
Company Nos. q, 25, and %, John
u. Hays. seventy-two, eighty and 200
barrels respectively.
On Nutter's fork, West Union dis
trict, Doddridge county, the Garter
Oil Company drilled it's No. 5 on the
Robert GhaIfant farm through all
sands finding nothing but a light
show Of oil in the Big Injun sand for
nation. They are plugging the hole
below the Big Iniun sand and will
give it a shot. On Broad run, Nc
ClelIan district the same company
drilled a test on the H. I'll. Hardmani
farm through the Gordon sand and
has a very light show of oil and gas.
On Elk Lick run, the Carnegie Matt
ural Gas Company has completed al
test on the w. S. Ferribee farm and
has a gasser in the strata above the
Gordon.
Light Wells and Busters.
On the north fork of Hughes river,
Clay district, Richie county, the
philadelphia Company Is through the
Big EIniun sand at q test on the w. Al
Fleming farm and has II gnsser. On
Crab run, Murphy district, Wilson
and Porter completed No, 3 on the
B. X. McCoah farm. is dry in the.
Salt sand. on Long run In the same
district the Hope N Natural Gas Com
pany's test on the II. &. Cor farm ISL
| dry in all sands On Big run, Nc
E1lroy district, Tyler county, tue Man
ufacturers Light and Heat Companys $.
test on the George Bailey farm IS q
! gasser. in the Big Injrln sand.
Wood county is completing light
! producers On Long run, Union dis
strict, Parsons and Sweeney Brothers
/ drilled No IS on the sAla.liah Pol lock
/ farm through the Berea grit and SCI
Toured ia slS-barrel Pumper. On Still
we'll creek. George Basse1's No. 8 on.
the II. IS. Dye farm is a four-barreI
Il pumper in the Second Cow Run sand.
il on the same stream and in the same
IHdistrlct the Byers Oil Conpany's No.
4 IL on the Charles Elliott farm is q
hve-barrel pumper in the same for
nation.
4 I'air Gassel. in B,;sXton County.
on the right fork OF Steer creek.
Otter district, Braxton county, the
Mill Fork Oil and Gas Company test
on the G. r. Bourne farm is a gasser
IN the Salt sand and has an estimated
4 capacity Of 3. 500 900 cubic feet q
4 day On the north branch or Nc
4 Governs creek. Walton district
4 Roane county, the Republic Oil and
Gas Company's No. 10 on the S. A..
Il 3Fleshman farm Is showing some oil
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