434 PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS. 



WELL RECORDS AND PROSPECTIVE AREAS, 

 GILMER COUNTY. 



EARLY HISTORY. 



The first drilling for oil and gas in Gilmer County was 

 done on Right Fork of Steer Creek, where one well (782) was 

 drilled on the Daniel Huffman farm and 2 wells (783) and 

 (784) were drilled on the Eli Shock farm, probably 25 to 30 

 years ago, where seepages of gas were known to occur along 

 the creek. These wells all produced gas, but were never 

 utilized. Another shallow well, drilled with a spring-pole, 

 was completed about 1875 on the Kane farm (760), near 

 Lettergap, and made some gas, and another on the Middleton 

 farm (685), at the mouth of Grace Run, was also completed 

 at an early date. The first deep hole drilled was that on the 

 Fisher farm (653), on a branch of Tanner Creek near Tanner, 

 which was completed in 1891, by John T. Harris and others, 

 and still produces gas. In 1892 a well (689) was drilled on 

 the Norris farm at Glenville, but made only a small amount 

 of gas. Scattered wells were drilled throughout the county 

 within the next few years, but systematic development did 

 not begin until after the great Copley well in Lewis had been 

 completed in 1900, numerous wells soon being drilled along 

 Sand Fork, where a pool was opened at the mouth of Indian 

 Fork. 



SUMMARIZED RECORDS. 



The following table, like that published for Lewis on 

 pages 184 to 203, is a compilation from all the detailed records 

 available in the county, and is intended to be a ready sum- 

 mary of the most important facts regarding each well. The 

 same explanations which accompany the Lewis County table 

 are applicable here. The following abbreviations of com- 

 pany names have been used : 



Ash Bros Ash Brothers. 



Caldwell et al Charles T. Caldwell, Showalter et al. 



Carter Carter Oil Company. 



Central Rosedale Central Rosedale Oil and Gas Company. 



Cresco O. & G Cresco Oil and Gas Company. 



