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Three wells have been drilled in the edge of Braxton 

 County, two or three miles west of Ireland. The G. D. Wal- 

 ton No. 1 (592), on the head of Knawl Creek, was reported 

 to have made two shows of gas and a little oil, but was aban- 

 doned as a dry hole. The Samuel Cunningham No. 1 (593), 

 on Pigeonroost Fork of Knawl Creek, was reported to have 

 made a little oil and enough gas to run an engine. The John 

 Ware No. 1 (594), on Right Fork of Falls Creek, just west 

 of Letch, was reported to have made considerable gas, but 

 was abandoned. 



In the southern panhandle of Lewis and in the adjoining 

 territory of Upshur and Webster, fourteen wells have been 

 drilled, nearly all having made shows of oil and gas, mostly 

 from the lower members of the Pottsville group of sands, 

 which produce oil and gas at Rosedale. Concerning this oil 

 in the panhandle. White 6 says the following: 



"The oil is of light gravity and amber color, but is so mixed up 

 with water that no paying wells have ever been found, although a fine 

 'showing' has been obtained in nearly every one of the dozen or more 

 wells that have been drilled. It appears to be impossible to case off 

 the water without also shutting out the oil." 



The records of only a few of these wells are available. 

 According to W. T. Wilson, of Bablin, who drilled several 

 of them, the W. T. Wilson No. 1 (595) made a little oil; the 

 W. T. Wilson No. 2 (596), the record of which is published 

 in Chapter IX, page 167, was a dry hole; the A. K. Wilson 

 No. 2 (597), the record of which is published in the section 

 for Bablin, page 72, made oil and gas from the Salt Sand 

 and a little oil from the Gordon ; the A. K. Wilson No. 1 (598) 

 made oil and gas ; the S. M. Holt No. 1 (599) made oil and 

 gas; the S. M. Holt No. 3 (600) was a dry hole; the S. M. 

 Holt No. 2 (601) made oil and gas; the John Snyder No. 1 

 (602) was a dry hole; the William Mearns No. 1 (603) was 

 reported to have flowed some thick oil at 230 feet ; the V. S. 

 Lynch No. 1 (603A) was a dry hole ; the G. G. Butcher No. 1 

 (604), according to a resident, made an oil show and enough 

 gas to blow out water, and "lots of salt water." The well 

 still makes a little gas. The following well was reported to 



"I. C. White, Vol. I(A), W. Va. G. S., p. 375: 1904. 



