STATE GEOLOGIST. ms) 
Oil and Gas Company was incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000, 
divided into shares of $100 each. On May 1, 1889, this was increased to 
$25,000, and on January 16, 1894, the company voted to increase the 
stock to $100,000 for the further development of the territory. This com- 
pany located its first well southwest of town on land of William Barlow, 
February 20, 1888. The Berea sand was found but made a show only of 
oil, and the second well produced similar results. Before making further 
exploration the company employed Mr. F. W. Minshall, of Marietta, to 
examine the field. He reported a low arch northwest of town, and in 1889 
a well was located by him on the Parker farm on this arch. The result was 
a gas well having a closed pressure of 640 pounds, and a daily production 
of 750,000 cubic feet. Another well was soon drilled on the same property 
with results similar to the first one. In 1890 Dr. Orton measured these 
wells and reported that they produced conjointly 800,000 cubic feet per 
day. The,gas was piped to Barnesville the same year. In 1891 two wells 
were drilled on the Laughlin farm, adjoining the Parker, and both were 
fair gas wells. 
From what has just been said it is apparent that during the early 
years the territory produced gas only. Early in the winter of 1893 a well 
drilled on the Parker farm east of the gas wells began producing 25 bar- 
rels of oil per day, thus proving the existence of oil as well as gas in com- 
mercial quantities. Drilling has been in progress in the field from time to 
time since that date. In August, 1901, the daily production was reported 
by the guager to be 175 barrels per day. In December, 1902, the 25 oil 
wells of the field were producing from 30 to 35 barrels in the same period. 
The gravity of the oil was reported by the guager to be 46% degrees B. 
As soon as oil was discovered the Buckeye Pipe Line Company entered 
the field and began shipping the product in tank cars, but in 1895 it laid 
a pipe line to Sistersville, West Virginia. 
In 1898 the Warren Oil and Gas Company sold its gas wells to Treat 
and Crawford, and in 1899 its oil wells. Gas is furnished to about 500 
customers and to two glass houses (July, 1901), but the local supply is 
increased from the Dudley field, in Noble county. The price of gas was 
at first 10 cents per thousand cubic feet; in 1897 it was doubled, but 
opportunity is afforded to reduce this 5 per cent. by paying the bills before 
the roth of the month. 
The following figures show the daily production in cubic feet of the 
oldest gas wells at different periods during the first five years of their 
history : 
(ghee ant April 26, April 20, April 26, 
drilled). 1892. 1894. 1805. 
Rarkern NO:daAly sk: 750,000 66,703 a RAS Ee Ee ares 
Parker® Nov ¢22 03... 750,000 174,364 99,960 71,665 
ILENE MDT ING, all G6 6 teesae neo 266,804 142,800 100,378 
MawelibimmyNoys 2h rca aoa. 159,966 95,166 50,000 
