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Language
English
Abstract
A Morgantown based investment company that acquired and leased land in the oil and gas fields of north central West Virginia.
The contents of the record book are chiefly stockholder meeting reports about audits, leases, royalties and agreements. Prominent
company members named in the volume are Charles S. White, I. C. White, R. T. Cunningham, A. F. Ramsay, William S. Stevenson,
T. M. Jackson, Clarence B. Dille and J. Lewis Williams. Although not the company president, I. C. White, an eminent geologist,
was instrumental in its creation and operation. White, a renowned specialist in oil, gas and coal geology, initiated the anticlinal
theory of oil and gas deposits and on its basis speculated correctly that there were ample deposits in the Mannington region.
The company attained land holdings and leases in an oil and gas producing region encompassing Monongalia, Wetzel, Marion,
Harrison, Doddridge and Lewis counties. The minutes also mention associated companies such as the Eureka Pipe Line Co., South
Penn Oil Co. and the Fisher Oil Co.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Telluric Company, Investment Company Record Book, A&M 3064, West Virginia
and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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