This article from cleveland.com takes a brief look at the leasing activity in Ohio from inside the recorder's office. It begins: "Paul McKeegan has served two decades as Jefferson County Recorder, but nothing has prepared him for what's occurred in his Steubenville office over the past year. His once-sleepy office has become a bustling, elbow-to-elbow beehive of activity as lawyers and agents of oil and gas companies have descended in droves to study the property deeds chasing the liquid gold that runs deep underneath the soil in this eastern Ohio county."
Read the whole thing.