“Oil and Coal Tract in Braxton County, W.Va. Area, 600 Acres. Scale, 50 poles = 1 inch”, 320 x 220 mm to the neatline, full margins

Showing the area bounded by Tripletts Fork in the northeast, Boggs Run to the east, O’Brien’s Fork to the west, and Tague’s Fork to the Northwest.

“Oil Tract in Gilmer County, W.Va. Scale, 40 poles = 1 inch. Area, 102 acres”, 180 x 250 mm to the neatline, full margins

Showing the area surrounding the tributary ‘Mikes Run’ of the ‘Steers Creek’, which is southwest of Glenville.

“Oil Tract in Ritchie County, W.Va. Area, 121 Acres. Scale of 30 poles to the in.”, 200 x 290 mm to the neatline

Showing the area surrounding the tributaries to the southeast of Lynn Camp Run,

West Virginia has been a prolific supplier of oil, but particularly of bituminous coal since before it entered the Union in 1863. In the 1850s geologists surveyed potential coal fields, investing in land and early mining projects, which boomed in the years following the Civil War, with the advent of railroads.