The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-21
OIL AND GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TRI-STATE
Latest Reports Of Operations In
West Virginia, PennsyI-
Yania and Ohio.

Another ten cent advance In the
credit balance market yesterday
brought tho quotation for crude OF the
Pennsylvania grade up to $3.50. the
high point reached on March II and
maintained until July -. when II
started 10 decline and on August i5I
touched go. Tho three recent ad-
yances OF ten cents each. restores all Of
tho loss and operators and producers
are much Clated over the upward turn.
When the Joseph Secp Purchasing
Agency opened yosteWay morning all
eastern grades were marked up ten
vents, except Ragland, which was nd
vanced five cents.
Tho last advance IN the market will
to an extent stimulate greater activity
In the fields, Operators have main
tanned that they could not drill in the
Kind OF territory at hand on a low
market, but Will now renew tho effort
IN the old fields and aagln take up the
search for new producing territory.
There will probably not be great
deal Of that kind Of work started this
fall and winter but with the return
OF spring there will be general
effort made in that direction.
On Coon run. Mcclellan district.
Doddridge county, w. Va, the Carter
OIL Company drilled It's No on the
w. f. Foley farm through the Zig
lnjun sand and showing for ten
barrel pumper. In the Burning Springs
district. Writ county. Roberts Brothers
completed and shot Nos. 81 and 98 on
the Rathbone tract and both arc light
bumpers in the first Cow Run sand.
On the Little. Ranawha river, Sher-
man district, Calhoun county, the HOBO
.atural Gas Company drilled n second
test on the q. Rice farm into VIVA.
is thought to be the Big InIun sand
and II is showing for an oil producer.
Tho sand was reached al depth OF
2,l69 feet and as soon as the well
began to show oil drilling was sus-
pended to erect tankage. This locu-
ton Is two and one-half miles north
east of the same company's test on
the Daniel Huffman farm. completed
several months ago and showed for
good producer.
Shooting old wells is u frequent
occurrence in the old fields Operators
are having nothing undone to keep
the old producers giving up their
maximum of production. In Union
district. Clay county, tho United Fuel
Gas Company gave No. 6 on the Frank
Cox farm shot and increased Its pro-
duction from five to thirty-five barrels
a day. In the old Blue creek field,
Elk district, Kanawha county, all OF
the old wells have been shot one or
more times. Shooting helps for time
but the wells soon drop back to or be-
low their former production. A large
number OF the old wells in this dis
doned
Buster on Del = Run.
In tho Thirty foot development on
Dents run, Warrington district, Mar
10 county, the Chalmers OIL and Gas
Company drilled It's test on the Jones
heirs farm through the sand and
found II barren. This location Is one
half mile east of the big producer on
the Higginbotham farm. In the upper
end OF the field the old wells are CON
sistent producers as the following
gauges show: r. w. Bartlett No. ]
q. p. Batson, 265 barrels Delmar Oil
Company No. "a John L. Hays, 372 bar
rels; Hickman and Huffman No. Al
fred Kendall $40 barrels; South Penn
OIL Company No. 2 Hoard-Batson, 1854
barrels, and Clayton OIL Company No.
] w. 2. Hays, ninety barrels.
In McKim district, Peasants county,
the Engle Run OIL Company has Ave
barrel pumper in the Cow Run sand al
No. 10 on the A. ]. Holdren farm. In
the same district the octo Oil Com
pany's No. "a on the NJ. E. Holdren
farm ls duster in the Cow Run sand.