The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-04
MUCH ACTIVITY IN
THE OIL FIELDS
Drilling win be General
Throughout the East
This Spring.

In the Eastern fields an. increase in
Development work Is noticeable. With
In another so days it will be very
general IN all sections OF the East.
favorable weather conditions will in
splre an effort for new production
such as has never before witnessed
lnsthe various fields. The high price
q 500 has never before been real.
LED by the operator and producer OF
today Five years ago operators were
elamoring for a 80 market. At that
tmc 1t was not SO difficult to find
new producing Tertiary. Neither was
the demand for high grade crude so
Great. Each succeeding year new pro-
being territory has become scarces
ana more difficult to find. At the
present time operators arc at loss
70 know whore to look for 1t with any
destee Of certainty.
IN the Big Injun sanfl territory in
Union district, Clay county. w. Va,
development work is increasing. The
Ohio Fuel OIL Company has just COM
pleted In this district No. 6 on the
Harper MINER farm, securing a Is
barrel pumper in the Big lnjun sand.
y y 800 feet north OF No. on the
same farm and the size little larger
than the average. In the. same dis
frict the Chalmers Oil and Gas Com.
pany has . rig completed for another
Eest on the w. S. Samples farm. To-
Gated 500 feet north of No on the
same farm.
Despite the fact that Il is, what is
Fuown as light territory the gas de-
:iyed rom the wells is high in gaso-
line content, which helps to make tho
wells profitable even thcagh the oil
produetson Is light. There are more
than is wells under way starting.
Over IN Braxton county there is cv-
cry Indication Of renewal OF de-
yelopMnut work.
IN Big Sandy district, Kanawha
county, the Ohio Fuel Oil Company
has drilled It's second test on the Levi
Deell farm into tho Weir sand. 1t
- lair Easser in that formation. Lo-
Gated In Geary district. Roane county,
the United Fuel Gas Company has
B9mrieted a test on the William Engle
farm It Isl a gasser ir the Big In
Jun sand.
In Sheridan district, Calhoun county
the Richter OIL Company has the rig
completed for test on the Emily Nc
Cray farm. In Lafayette district, Pleas
ants county. Hopkins. Wright 6 Co.
are drilling on the Owen GorreTl farm.
n Union district. Richie county, the
Hope Natural Gas Company has rigs
up for tests on the ]. a. Haddox and
~ Hall farms. In Warrington dis
tfict Marion county, the Nanufac.
Jurors light and Heat company *
building q rig on the A.. w. Beatty
farn SL6c4ted II Freemans Creek
District. Lewis county. the Carnegie
Natural Gas Company is moving rig
material to a location on the William
4. Rmehart farm. In Big Sandy dis
5rict Kanawha county. the Ohio Fuel
OIL Company Is rigging up on the, J.
II Davis farm. In the same distric,
The C1endenin Oil and GAY Company
BHriggtrg up 20 drill deper its test
on the q. H. Robinson farm. In Salt
Lick district. Braxton County. the Cen
trail Fuel Company has made loca-
ton on hte Burnley Singleton farm.
In the old districts in Allegheny
county there is good deal of new
work starting and there would be
more if 1t were not for the fact that
contractors are not available. The
Mckeesport gas field has drawn
heavily on all sections OF the local
end far distant fields.
n the Ingomar field, Allegheny
county Mellon and Pollack have drill
led q test on the ]. Baughman farm
Into the 100-foot sand and haze shut
down. In the same district, Roginson