PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS. 



The following well, which was the first drilled in the Ber- 

 lin region, was completed 8 to 10 years ago, far ahead of the 

 later development : 



W. G. Hinzman No. 375 Well Record (45). 



Hackers Creek District; on Laurel Lick, 0.5 mile south of Berlin; 

 authority, Hope Natural Gas Co.; elevation, 1050' B. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Conductor ..................................... 16 



Little Dunkard Sand ............................ 350 370 



Big Dunkard Sand .............................. 400 440 



Water and Sand ................................. 590 ---- 



Gas Sand ....................................... 725 740 



Salt Sand ...................................... 795 910 



Sand ........................................... 1050 1085 



Maxton Sand ................................... 1200 1235 



Little Lime ..................................... 1425 1440 



Pencil Cave ..................................... 1440 1456 



Big Lime ....................................... 1456 1505 



Big Injun Sand (oil and gas, 1620') ............ ...1505 1640 



Berea Sand .................................... 1840 1,874 



Gordon Stray Sand ............................. 2145 2160 



Gordon Sand .................................... 2185 2195 



Fifth Sand (nice) (gas, 2315') ................... 2293 2320 



Total depth .................................... 2326 



The Foreman Gas Station, of the West Virginia Central 

 Gas Company, located on Hackers Creek, 1.7 miles northwest 

 of Berlin, was built in 1911, according to J. F. Cowan, Chief 

 Engineer, and has an equipment consisting of three 1350 horse- 



