The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-05-06
OIL AND GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TR|-STATE
Latest Reports OF Operations IN
West Virginia, PemsW-
van!a and Ohio.

AZ the HoI tHeTn emu OF the deep
territory near Nashport, Licking
township, Muskingum county. o.. the
Columbus oil and Fuel Company has
drilled test on the Frederick Stitss
farm through the Clinton sand and
1t Is showing for twenty-barrel
producer. This location is LOO
feet east of the same companys test
on the L. 8. Romine farm. In the
same county and township the same
company has drilled a test on the
II. NJ. Vanvorhis farm thirty feet into
the Clinton sand. 1t is located one
and and one-half miles south OF the
same company's test on the Samuel
Frazier farm. and is not showing for
a producer. A pay may be developed
with deeper drilling.
| In the southeast end OF the old
Gore field in Green township, Hook
/ ing county. the CHARTERS OIL Com
pany has drilled second test on the
George Dresher farm through TWEEN
ty feet OF the Clinton sand and It
is showing very little oil. No. on
the same farm will be due to get the
sand in a few days The Fisher Oil
Company's Nos. and on the Lem
Oh lhlA Nut " SCl the bdhu
about the same time. The Plymouth
OIL Company's test on the Burl
Lemon farm is drilling near the top
of the sand. The Griffin Producing
Company has the rigs completed for
tests on the NJ. e. Linton and Jacob
snider farms. Over in the Union
Furnace district, in Starr township,
there are several wells due in tbc
sand. The Haydenville Oil Com
pany's No. Z on the National Fire
proofing tract is good producer and
has inspired the owners to start new
work on the same tract. No. s is
drilling and the material is on the
ground for Nos. 8. 10 and IL.
Shallow Sand Territory.
In the Macksburg district, Stock
township. Noble county, s. f. Ham
mond and Company completed No.
! % on the Leo Crum farm and It is
showing for a small pumper in the
Buell. Run sand. In Elk township
". ]. Fernier's No. on the P. L.
Ullman farm is light gasser in the
Germantown sand.
In Caldwell district, Seneca town
ship. Noble county, George Keil COM
plated a test on the Zern Corwin
farm and has a duster in the Berea
grit. This location is 500 feet south
east Of the test on the Henry Hurphy
farm, which is light pumper. One
mile southwest of Sarahsville. in
Center township, Charles Hellyer
and Company drilled test on the
Charles Hellyer farm through the
Buell. Run sand. 1t shows for very
light pumper.
In the Reas Run district, Indepen-
dence township, Washington county,
Walter Brown heirs drilled No. s on
their own farm through the Big In
Jun sand and found nothing This
location is 500 feet north OF No. 4, a
good producer. In all shallow sand
districts, Reas Run is furnishing
greater mum bers of good producers
than any other.
Ashtabula County.
In the northeast corner OF the state
in Ashtabula county operators have
not abandoned hope of finding a new
pool. So far as oil production the
we'll near Saybrook, completed last
summer, is the only one that got oil
in anything like paying quantities.
At this time the well is not in opera.
ton. One an done-half miles south
west of this well Buffalo parties are
drilling test on the Edwin Wright
farm. Last year the same parties
completed gas well on the David
Wilkinson farm, located one mile east
Of its drilling well. The Commercial
Oil and Gas Company. composed OF
Ashtabula parties, holds leases or
about 1900 acres south Of AshtabuIH
and are getting ready to start severa
test wells.
West griVnFla.
The late competitions in the West
Virginia fields consist of a variet,
of wells in which good producers have
no part. On Rowells run. Lee dis
trict, Calhoun county. Godfrey L
Cabot secured a Berea grit gasser a
his second test on the L. S. Sickl,
farm. The we'll has a capacity O.
about 100000 cubic feet day. Thu
location is one-fourth OF mile north
west Of the first test.
In Union district, Peasants county