PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS. 61 
its height, the Washington Reporter published a list of 125 wells and 
their owners, in which over 40 different companies and individuals 
were represented. The more extensive operations were carried on by 
the Forest Oil Company, People's Light and Heat Company, Willetts 
Oil Company, Associated Producers Company, Manufacturers Light 
and Heat Company, Chartiers Oil Company, John McKeown, Pew & 
Emerson, and the Belmont Oil Company. 
In the vicinity of Meadowlands there are about 50 oil tanks, having 
an average capacity of about 29,350 barrels each, a total of 1,467,000 
barrels, in which the oil produced in the southwest Pennsylvania dis- 
trict is stored. The total tankage at Meadowlands at one time was 
about 2,409,000 barrels, contained in 76 tanks. 
A number of wells in the Washington field have produced gas in 
considerable quantities. 
FONNER OIL FIELD. 
The Fonner is a small field which now produces about 50 barrels 
of oil per day, from the Gantz and Fifty-foot sands. Some gas is 
also produced in this held. The operations are carried on by the 
South Penn Oil Company. 
ZOLLARSVILLE GAS FIELD. 
This is the great gas field of the quadrangle and has had a large pro- 
duction for the past few years. The yield is principally from the 
Elizabeth and Bayard sands, though small quantities are found at 
all the important sand horizons. This field is being operated by the 
Monongahela Natural Gas Company, the Philadelphia Company, the 
Carnegie Natural Gas Company, the Greensboro Natural Gas Com- 
pany, and the Manufacturers Light and Heat Company. 
On the extreme western edge of the field several small oil wells 
were tapped in 1904. One of these, on the Margaret Hill farm (278), 
flowed 65 to 75 barrels per day. 
MISCELLANEOUS WELLS. 
A number of miscellaneous wells in various parts of the quadrangle 
have encountered oil in small quantities. None of them are worth 
mentioning. Gas wells are more widely distributed, and some of the 
scattered wells are good producers. One of the more continuous belts 
of wells runs from the Fonner field northeastward along the Amity 
anticline to beyond the National pike. Another group occurs in cen- 
tral Somerset Township. The gas in these scattering wells occurs at 
no particular horizon, but has been found in all sands from the Big 
Injun down to the Stray below the Elizabeth. The most commonly 
productive sands are, however, the Gantz, Fifty-foot, Fourth, and 
Fifth. The majority of the scattering wells were drilled by the Car- 
negie Natural Gas Company, the Philadelphia Company, and the 
Manufacturers Light and Heat Company. 
