WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. l8l 



counties. It is the principal oil stratum of the famous Coplc 

 pool in Courthouse District, Lewis, and has also produced gas 

 generally throughout the county. In Gilmer it is an important 

 gas horizon, but has not furnished much oil. 



Fourth Sand. The Fourth Sand, belonging next under 

 the Gordon, and much resembling it in thickness and charac- 

 ter, is not generally productive in either county. In northern 

 Lewis, it has furnished gas in several wells and has showed 

 oil in a few cases. 



Fifth Sand. The Fifth, or McDonald, Sand, belonging 

 150 to 175 feet below the top of the Gordon, and much resem- 

 bling the Gordon and Fourth in thickness and character, is the 

 great gas producing stratum of northern Lewis. Along the 

 anticlines in Hackers Creek, Freemans Creek and Courthouse 

 Districts, it is generally productive, and its great depth below 

 the surface, ranging usually from 2000 to 2500 feet, insures a 

 rock pressure that is often several times as large as the heavy 

 line pressures, 300 to 400 pounds, often carried by the trunk 

 gas lines. It is the oil stratum of the Benson Pool in Free- 

 mans Creek District. In Gilmer it is not generally produc- 

 tive, but along the Grassland Syncline in eastern Glenville 

 District, it furnishes a considerable oil pool at the mouth of 

 Indian Fork of Sand Fork. 



Sixth Sand. The Sixth, or Bayard, Sand, coming 175 to 

 250 feet below the top of the Gordon, and having the lenticu- 

 lar characteristics and general features of all the Catskill 

 Sands, is the lowest producing stratum in either county. Its 

 thickness ranges from 5 to 20 feet. In Lewis gas was secured 

 at this horizon in the S. D. Camden No. 27 (145) well in 

 Freemans Creek District. 



WELL RECORDS AND PROSPECTIVE AREAS, 

 LEWIS COUNTY. 



EARLY HISTORY. 



According to a former Report of the Survey, 4 oil develop- 

 ment began in Lewis in 1894, when the South Penn Oil Com- 



'I. C. White, Vol. I(A), W. Va. G. S., p. 354; 1904. 



