LOO I. C. WHITE — THE MANNINGTON OIL FIELD. 



Pottsville conglomerate : 



" Salt sand," part of XII (water at 1,442 feet) 150 to 1510 ] 



Slate (cased at 1,515 feet) 10 to 1520 | 



Limestone (?) 20 to 1540 - 



Slate 10 to 1550 



Dark pebbly sand 20 to 1570 



Mauch Chunk shale : 



Light-colored sandstone 95 to 1665 



Limestone, hard 22 to 1687 



Red shale 13 to 1700 j- 1 78 



Dark slate 45 to 1745 



Red shale 3 to 1748 



90 



395 



Limestone, " Mountain " or " Greenbrier " 56 to 1804 \ 



" Big Injun " or Mount Morris sand, with oil from 1,890 to > 157 



1,912 feet 101 to 1905 J 



The Mannington Section. — In the Hamilton test well (number 1) at 



Mannington also the record was kept by Mr. Garber, and reads as 

 follows : 



Permian or Dunkard Creek scries : i--,. e t. Feet. 



Conductor (soil) 15 to 15 



Coal. Waynesburg "A" • 1 to 16 



Slate . 14 to 30 



Blue sand, Waynesburg 35 to <i5 



Slate (Waynesburg coal at 78 feet, but not noted) 25 to 90 



Upper Coal Measures : 



Sandstone, Browntown 30 to 120 



Limestone 40 to 160 



Slate 35 to 195 



Limestone interstratified with thin shales 142 to 337 



Slate 8 to 345 



( !< >al, Sewicklev 12 to 357 



Slate ' 35 to 392 



Limestone 48 to 440 



Dark slate 11) to 459 



Coal, Pittsburg 11 to 470 



Barren Measures or Elk River series: 



Slate 25 to 495 



Limestone, hard 40 to 535 



Sandstone, Connellsville 35 to 570 



Slate 23 to 593 



Sandstone, hard 4 to 51), 



Red shale 6 to 603 



Variegated shales 87 to 690 



Red shale 10 to 700 



Limestone (shaly), Crinoidal 45 to 745 



Coal, Crinoidal 5 to 750 j 607 



Blue slate 25 to 775 



Limestone JO to 785 



Red shale 13 to 798 



Limestone and shales 26 to 824 



Sandstone, dark 20 to 844 



Slate, dark 31 to 875 



Sandstone, Upper Mahoning (some gas and water) 45 to 920 



Slate, gray (caving material) 65 to 985 



Sandstone, Lower Mahoning 92 to 1077 



