The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-03-01
OIL AND GAS
DEVELOPMENT
OF TRtSTATE
Latest Reports OF Operations in
West Virginia, PennsN-
vania and Ohio.

The cold weather rs interfering
with the completion OF wells in the
West Virginia and southwestern Ohio
fields. Furthermore, 1t Is causing
delay in starting new work. Opera
tors are getting anxious to begin de-
velopment work and are willing 20
take chances on securing new pro-
duction In almost any locality that
looks promising. In West Virginia
there Is more work under way and
starting in territory that Is regarded
as capable for nothing better than
light bumpers, than at any time
since development work began in the
Little Mountain State.
On Blue creek, Elk district. XII
nuWha county, 900 feet northwest Of
the South Penn Oil Company's No.
10 on the j. ". Skinner farm, the
Pennsylvania Crude Oil Company
drilled It's test on the Macy Myers
farm through the Weir sand and 1t
Is showing for ten-barrel pumper.
In the same district the United Fuel
Gas Company is due in the sand at a
test on the j. H. Perry farm.
On Blue creek the Ohio Fuel Oil
Company has the rigs completed for
tests on the ]. A. Gross and Isabelle
Myers farms and one on the Three
Mile Fork Land Company's property.
The Same company Is due In the sand
at second test on the Mullins farm.
In Big Sandy district the South Penn
OIL Company Is due in the sand at
a second test on the ]. NJ. Hays farm
and the United Fuel Company has
the rig completed for test on the
w. F.. Carter farm.
Near Bearsville, Oentervllle dis
trict, Tyler county, the Carter Oil
Company completed a test on the J.
S. Hamilton farm and II Is buster
in the Big Injun sand. In Clay dis
trict. Mnnongalia county, the Pitts
burg and West Virginia Gas Com
pany has q Big Iniun sand gasser at
It's test on the Simon Moore farm.
Southeastern Ohio.
Light wells and busters are the Of
ferlng in the shallow sand districts
in southeastern Ohio. In the Cald-
well district, Olive township, Noble
county, Cooper, Young and Com
pany drilled test on the Fullerton
Caldwell farm through the Derea
grit and found 1t barren. The loca-
tion Is one mile north Of production.
White, McKeley and Company have
the rig completed for a test on the
William Courtney farm. In Noble
township Mckee and Company have
the rig cmorleted for test on the
James Stone farm and Mccormick
and Blakeslee are drilling another
test on the James Stone farm.
In the southeast quarter OF section
&c, Knox township. Jefferson county,
j. ]. Crawford and Company drilled
No. 8 on the Mary Andrews farm
through the Berea grit and II Is q
very light pumpar. In the deep sand
territory in Hopewell township, Lick
! ing county. the Planet Oil Company's
test on TIL the e. H. Kreager farm
Is holding ZIP at eighty-hve barrels a
day. In Ward township. Hooking
county, the Plymouth Oil and Gas
Company has started to drill No. G on
the n. X. Starr farm.
Encounter Many Difficulties.
In recent bulletin issued by the
United States Geological Survey tho
difficulties that oil and gas operators
encountered are pointed out. In the
Bighorn Basin of northern Wyoming.
the report states, a lack OF water AMI
fuel are conspicuous features. and
the sage brush desert, where the tenn
peratute ranges from thirty-two de-
Erees below zero in January to log
above zero in July. where the annual
rainfall Is less than six inches. and
whore timber ia scarce, is not attrac-
tive to the settler.
Some three years ago three wells
drilled In a dome or UPHOLD OF the
rocks near Basin. N Big Horn
county. struck q strong flow OF gas,
and Greybull and Basin now have the
distinction OF being the only towns
in Wyoming that are supplied with
natural gas,
Field work done by the United