44 ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF AMITY QUADRANGLE, PA. 
Washington field. This held extends in a northeast direction from 
a point near Claysville, in the western part of the county, through 
the town of Washington and across South and North Strabana 
townships to the vicinity of Linden. The field includes the Morgan, 
Willetts, Davis, Taylor, Barre, Smith, Manifold, Munce, Cameron, 
Thome, Wright, Linn, Kooney, Martin, W T ade, Kunz, Le Moyne, and 
other farms, which were widely known at the time of the oil excite- 
ment for their many producing wells. 
On the border of Greene County, in the extreme southwest corner 
of the quadrangle, lies a small oil field, only partially within the 
area, which is generally known as the Fonner field though some- 
times as the Dunn Station field. Portions of this field lie in the 
Waynesburg, R-ogersville, and Claysville quadrangles. 
Near the center of* Somerset Township small quantities of oil 
have been produced by a number of wells, and it has been struck in 
a few wells in West Bethlehem and North and South Franklin town- 
ships. A short distance off the quadrangle, northeast of Linden, a 
new oil field is now being developed. 
The principal and only large gas field in the quadrangle is the 
Zollarsville field, which contains about 70 wells, located mostly in 
West Bethlehem Township and the borough of Deemston. It has 
a length of 5 miles and a breadth of about 2 miles. In the Waynes- 
burg quadrangle, south of Zollarsville, there are a few wells in this 
same belt. 
In general, producing gas wells are much more scattering than oil 
wells and are spread widely over the area. To a few wells in the 
central part of Amwell Township, between Hackneys and Lone Pine, 
the name Amity field is often applied. Along this same line to the 
northeast a small group is encountered west of Odell, in West Beth- 
lehem Township (Ross field), and in central Somerset Township are 
a number <>f good gas wells which will be referred to as the Somerset, 
field. Another group, the southward extension of the Cannonsbura 
field, lies in Chartiers and western North Strabane townships near 
the quadrangle line. Gas has been found in a number of wells scat! 
tered throughout the Washington oil field and in its northern exten- 
sion near Linden. To the group in this vicinity the term Linden 
field has been applied. 
BRIEF HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT IX WASHINGTON COUNTY." 
EARLY HISTORY. 
The earliest known drilling for oil or gas in Washington County 
was by the Washington County Eureka Oil Company, organized in 
a For much of the information contained here the writer is indebted to the stall of the Washington 
Daily Reporter, who allowed the consultation of ite files. Other fads are taken from the Handbook 
of Petroleum, Derrick Publishing Company, Oil City, 1898. 
