WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



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power Snow twin tandem gas engines and two 60 horse- 

 power Westinghouse 3-cylinder vertical gas engines, making 

 a total of 4170 horse-power. The station pumps gas across the 

 Alleghany Mountains to Cumberland, Md., the pressure in the 

 line being 375 pounds in winter and 300 pounds in summer. 

 The gas enters the compressors at a temperature of 68 degrees, 

 Fahrenheit, becomes heated to 225, but is cooled to 94 degrees 

 before going into the line. 



Five dry holes have been drilled along Laurel Lick, south 

 of Berlin, being located on the south side of the Grassland 

 Syncline. The three following records are from this locality : 



May McWhorter No. 2593 Well Record (48). 



Hackers Creek District; on Laurel Lick, 1.7 miles south of Berlin; 



authority, Hope Natural Gas Co.; completed, July 11, 1912; elevation, 



1245' L. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Little Dunkard Sand 540 555 



Big Dunkard Sand 655 675 



Gas Sand 820 835 



Second Cow Run Sand 965 1040 



Salt Sand 1050 1125 



Maxton Sand 1270 1460 



Little Lime 1730 1740 



Pencil Cave .1740 1755 



Big Lime 1755 1815 



Big Injun Sand 1815 1950 



Squaw Sand 1955 1968 



Berea Sand 2055 2075 



Fifty-foot Sand (gas, 2102'; water, 2112') 2100 2190 



Thirty-foot Sand 2225 2260 



Gordon Stray Sand 2340 2375 



Gordon Sand 2396 2420 



Fourth Sand 2459 2464 



Fifth Sand 2470 2488 



Total depth 3001 



T. S. Stalnaker No. 2619 Well Record (49). 



Hackers Creek District; on Laurel Lick, 2.2 miles south of Berlin; 



authority, Hope Natural Gas Co.; completed, July 29, 1912; elevation, 

 1100' B. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Unrecorded (water, 406') 696 



Gas Sand 696 714 



Second Cow Run Sand 775 1022 



Salt Sand.. 1088 1190 



