SECTIONS DEVELOPED BY BORING. 



191 



Lower Coal Measures: 



Slate 



Sandstone, hard 



Sandy shales and slate 



Trace of coal (Kittanning Upper coal ?) 



Black slate 



Sandstone, very hard 



Coal and slate, Lower Kittanning 



Limestone and slate 



Hard sandy shales, and slate 



Pottsville conglomerate : 



White pebbly sandstone ("salt sand;" big flow of salt 



water at 1,385 feet) 



Dark slate 



Dark pebbly sandstone 



Sandy beds 



Trace of coal, base of number Xli 



Mauch Chunk shale : 



Light-colored slate 



Red shale 



Limestone, slaty (cased at 1,680 feet) 



Red slate 



93 to 1170 

 15 to 1185 

 45 to 1 230 



20 to 1250 \- 

 27 to 1277 

 17 to 1294 



21 to 1315 

 55 to 1370 , 



293 



200 



30 to 1600 

 78 to 1678 i 

 28 to 1706 | 

 5 to 1711 J 



141 



Limestone, " Mountain " or " Greenbrier " 92 to 1803 



"Big Injun" (Mount Morris) oil sand, composed of- 



(a) Gray sand (gas at 1,815 feet) 37 



(b) Cream-colored limestone 17 



(c) Dark sand 10 



(d) Gray sand with oil at base 8 



(e) Bluish gray sand ( with more oil at 1,885 feet and 



some water at 1,910 feet) 



72 to 1875 r 219 



55 to 1930 



The bottom of the Wayneshurg coal should have been found in this 

 well at about 78 feet from the surface. 



The Fairview Section. — Near Fairview, 10 miles northeast of Manning- 

 ton, the measures exhibit the following structure, as shown by the record 

 of the Brice Wallace well number 1, given me by Mr. John Worthington, 

 of the South Penn oil company: 



Feet. 



( ionductor 12 to 



Gray slate 30 to 



( !oal, Waynesburg "A" 4 tc 



Sandstone, Waynesburg 87 t< 



Slate ' 4 t< 



I rpper ( loal Measures : 



Coal, Waynesburg 7 t< 



Slate ."> t< 



White sandstone, Browntown 4iu< 



( loal, Little Waynesburg (it. 



I limestone 39 t< 



Slate and sandy beds 50 1 



Limestone 



slate and limestone 



White sandstone, Sew ickley 



( loal, Sewicklev 



Slate, BOfl ' 



Limestone, hard 



Slate 



Coal, I'ii tsburg 



16 t< 



no t< 



40 t( 



Id t< 



25 t- 

 35 t< 

 30 t. 

 N t( 



12 



42 



46 



133 



137 



141 

 L49 

 189 

 195 

 234 

 28 I 

 320 

 380 

 420 

 430 

 l.v, 



490 

 521 1 

 534 



Feel 



137 



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