1878.] ''> [ tshburner. 



Hard slate mixed with sand and " pebble shell." 370 to 1745 



Slate and sand alternating 40 " 1785 



Drilled dry. Cased at 370' 



Heavy sand " shell" at 1017' 



Sand at 1745' 



Slate " 1760' 



Sand " 1768' 



Slate " 1781V 



Salt water found in sands at 1745' and 1768' 



Mr. Blakeslee reports that no "good show " of oil was found. A small 

 gas vein was struck, position not stated. Elevation of the bottom of the 

 Olean Conglomerate on the P. & E. R. R. four miles due south-west from 

 the Kinzua Well is 1868 feet. The calculated elevation of the same hori- 

 zon at the well is 1900 feet. 



Wilcox Well, No. 2, or Schaltz Gas Well. 



Owned by M. M. Schultz & Co., situated on the west branch Clarion 

 River, in warrant 2676, Sergeant Township, McKean County, and five 

 miles north of Wilcox, a station on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, 

 104 miles east of the City of Erie. This well is 855 feet south, 17 degrees 

 30 minutes west, of Wilcox Well, No. 1, or the old Adams Well,- which 

 was drilled in 1864. (?) 



Drilling on this well was commenced about the first of the year ; 1876) 

 and completed in the latter part of August of the same year. After the 

 drilling was completed to a depth of 2004 feet, an "oil saver" was attached 

 to the iron casing (of inch), and the gas issuing from the well was conveyed 

 through a two inch pipe and discharged about two feet above the surface of 

 the water, which partially filled the 250 barrel tank which had been erected. 

 Sufficient oil was passed to show itself as a scum on the surface of the 

 water. 



Mr. Schultz conceived the idea of inserting into the well to a depth of 

 2000 feet, an inch pipe, and by closing the mouth of the casing to utilize 

 the pressure of the gas to force the oil out through the inch tubing. 



Mr. Schultz believed that the hulk of the oil which was found in the 

 well was coming from the sand exteuding from 1795 to 1815 feet, in which 

 the drillers reported that they had "struck" a small quantity of heavy 

 green oil. In this event the immense volume of gas which was issuing 

 from a depth of 1776 feet might more than counterbalance in its pressure 

 the pressure of the oil from a lower horizon, and tints prevent it from fill- 

 ing the hole. 



After the tubing was adjusted and the gas confined in the well as much 



* For a complete record of this well . see a paper by Prof. Lesley in the Proceed- 

 ings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. X, page 238; also one in the 

 Petroleum Monthly of a later date. A description of a very interesting art ion 

 of this well is given in a paper named " Description of the Wilcox Spouting 

 Water Well," which I r«.ad before the Society, Sept. 21, 1S77. 



