The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-01-04
THIRD PRODUCTIVE
GAS WELL BLOWS
IN" AT MT. LAKE
Well on Camp Meeting Grounds
Passes Four Million Capacity

Prospects of making the Mt Lake
Park Gortner section of the county
into a productive natural gas field
were given a boost during the past
week when another well literally
"came in with a roar
The latest one to be termed sue
cessful was one located on the ground
of the Mt. Lake Park Camp Meeting
Association within a hundred yards
of the auditorium, which "came in"
last Thursday, with a capacity of
around 100000 cubic feet of gas per
day.
Additional drilling has increased
this output to about four million cubic
feet per day, according to officials of
the Nollem Gas company, in state
ment to The Republican yesterday.
The depth is 1910 feet. The company
plans to drill deeper.
The Associations well, when con-
nected to the c. and A. Gas company
lines, will make the third one in this
area to become productive. Several
others are showing signs of becoming
productive, while one drilling up to
now has shown no evidence Of success.
Officials of the Columbian Carbon
company reported this week that a
well on the Joni Miller farm near
Gortner, formerly known as the Paul
Friend farm, along route 219, had
been drilled to depth of 3,032 feet
without any evidence of gas.
Two other wells are showing signs
of productivity. On the farm of o. I.
eraser and Merlin Gnegy, near Loeb
Lynn, they have obtained gas pres
sure comparable to $4,000 cubic feet,
| and the same figures are given in re
gard to the well on the O'Donnell
property in Loeb Lynn, being drilled
by Eberly and Sneed.
The two producing wells are con-
tinuing to feed gas into the conf
mercial lines at an even rate. The
/ Beachy we'll at 4,454 feet continues to
produce around half million cubic
feet per day, while the one on the
Norris X. Welch property continues
to feed around million cubic feet in
to the lines daily. Capacity of this
well is about nine million cubic feet.
Mr.. Welch, whose proportionate
share of the production is one-third
( of one-eighth, said he would receive
around $833.8S for twenty-seven days.
/ This well, since October, up to and in
Guiding November s, had contributed
about 125 million cubic feet into the
commercial lines.
This well is at total depth Of
! 1859 feet. The log of the drilling
operations shows that the drill moved
through successive layers of slate and
shells, then limestone, until we'll past
67O feet, after penetrating sand and
lime rock near the surface. After the
last layer of slate and shells came
brown shale, lime shells, brown shale,
more slate and shells, then blue and
black shale until it reached 1884 feet
when it struck limestone. The present
supply is coming out Of limestone.
Mr.. Welch said his figures indi-
Gated that the we'll had produced for
the four owners of the block over
$500 in twenty-seven days in royal
ties, and that the total production had
amounted to $2O,O13.12.
Leases usually allow an eighth to
the owners, with the company doing
the drilling taking seven eighths. The
| owners in the Welch block are N. K.
WEIGH, Wellington Welch, Ray R.
Gnegy and Mary Bond Weber, with
N. X. WEIGH having a proportionate
share of the acreage of about one
third. The gas companies have leased
land in blocks of about 800 acres.