4 o6 PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS. 



untried. The most profitable results in the future will prob- 

 ably be secured by drilling for gas in numerous farms that 

 still remain untouched in the areas that have been tested and 

 have proved to be good, as shown on Map II. Attention is 

 called to the following localities for new production: (1), The 

 northwestern corner of the district between the 700-foot struc- 

 ture contour and the Freemans Creek District Line, along 

 Oldfield Fork and Raccoon Run, for gas in the Gordon and 

 Fifth Sands; (2), A small amount of territory, about one-half 

 mile square, just northwest of Copley for an extension of the 

 Copley Pool in the Gordon Sand; (3), Further drilling along 

 both sides of the Orlando Anticline for gas in sands ranging 

 from the Berea to the Fifth; (4), The eastern part of the dis- 

 trict along Wolf Fork of Skin Creek for gas in sands ranging 

 from the Berea to the Fifth. 



Detailed Well Records, Skin Creek District. 



Skin Cre6k District occupies a small portion of the east- 

 ern part of the county next to Upshur. Its entire area is in- 

 cluded within the long monoclinal slope east of the Grass- 

 land and Roanoke Synclines, that rises steadily to the Upshur 

 Line. Only seven wells have been drilled in the district, and 

 of these only two have produced gas in commercial quantity, 

 the others being dry holes or having light shows of gas or oil. 

 The records of five of these wells are available. 



The Skin Creek Station of the Pittsburgh and West Vir- 

 ginia Gas Company, located at the mouth of Skin Creek, one- 

 third mile south of Brownsville, completed January 1, 1915, 

 according to S. L. Montgomery, Engineer in Charge, has an 

 equipment that includes one Nordberg Cross-Compound Con- 

 densing Steam Engine of 1200 horse-power, two 19-inch gas 

 cylinders, four Babcock and Wilcox 335 horse-power boilers 

 of the water tube type. The gas is cooled by the usual device 

 of running the pipes through a pool of water. 



The following well was a good gasser from the Gordon 

 Sand and was reported to have made a little black oil from 

 the Big Lime: 



