Lesley.] 



238 



[April. 



Soapstone, 75 to 507 



151ue slate, 35 to 542 



Blue stone, . . . . . . . . 15 to 557 



Gray stone, . . . . . . . . 35 to 592 



Brown, very hard, red in centre, the rest blue, . . 43 to 635 



f red ; -with blue stone ; salty, . . . *68 to 703 



o J i I S^^Jj 10 to 713 



Sandstone,^ / ., ,, ^^ »^^ 



I red ; with blue stone, . . . . 20 to 733 



[ blue ; salty, 22 to 755 



the depth of the well July 20th, 1865, when the manager wrote, 



"We have lots of gas and soot, and the rock is very oily and salty." 



Record of Borings on the Clarion Coal and Oil Company's tract, 

 Wilcox, Elk County, Pa., sunk by Adams & Babcock, communicated 

 by Mr. 0. N. Adams. The well is situated on West Branch of 

 Clarion (West Toby), on Warrant No. 2676, near and inside of the 

 south line of McKean County, Pennsylvania. 



" Coal crops out about 370 feet above well mouth, in the surround- 

 ing hills." 



Conducting pipe through gravel. 

 Slate ; (at 60 feet from surface heavy water-course,) 

 Shale ; red, ....... 



Sandstone; blue, ...... 



Slate; ( "These red shales are hard and 



Shale; red, \ compact like sandstone." 



Sandstone ; micaceous. 



Sandstone ; blue, 



Shale ; red, .... 



Slate, 



Sand ; blue, .... 

 Shales ; red (salt water), . 

 Sandstone; blue, 

 Slate, ..... 



o J i. • ( (" mica and iron pyrites 



bandstone ; micaceous, < ^ ^•' 



(. abundant,") 

 Slate, ("often called black sand,") .... 

 Sandstone ; blue, ....... 



Slate, 



f (gasandblack soot abundant ) 

 ( for 100 feet downward,) j 



1 



Sandstone ; micaceous, 



48 to 749 



* 100 feet in S. "W. Wickersham's letter of July 22d, 1865. 



