2QO PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS. 



Timothy Joyce No. 1 Well Record (210). 



Freemans Creek District; on Right Fork, 1.3 miles southeast of 

 Coldwater; authority, South Penn Oil Co.; elevation, 1165' B. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Coal, Washington 82 85 



Coal Pittsburgh 650 657 



Sand, Gas 1361 1440 



Big Lime 2040 2120 



Sand, Big Injun 2120 2200 



Sand, Berea (oil, 2451') 2451 2471 



Total depth *. 2474 



The Fink Oil Pool, extending from the divide between 

 Freemans Creek and Fink, one mile southeast of Coldwater, 

 southwestward along the strike of the measures for 6 miles 

 to Hurst, is the largest oil field in Lewis and Gilmer. It has 

 an average width of about one mile, being roughly parallel to 

 the valley of Fink Creek, and having its center along the 500- 

 foot contour of the Pittsburgh Coal. The contours on Map II 

 show that this pool is located at the foot of a long structural 

 siope west of the Chestnut Ridge Anticline, the dip on the 

 west side of the pool being much less rapid than on the east, 

 and thus making a terrace structure that is especially favora- 

 ble for the segregation of oil. The producing sand has been 

 correlated by the drillers as the Gantz, but the detailed studies 

 in the counties to the northwest show that it is the Berea 

 Sand, being about 400 feet below the top of the Big Lime. 

 The daily initial production of the wells has not been large, 

 ranging from 10 to 200 barrels, but a steady production for 

 many years has made the field a profitable one. Drilling be- 

 gan in 1894 with the John Rastle No. 1 (273), which is still 

 pumping, and many other wells have had a similar long life. 

 The ten following records are of wells drilled along the most 

 northern branch of Fink Creek: 



Thomas Fahey No. 4 Well Record (211). 



Freemans Creek District; 1.8 miles S. 10 E. of Coldwater; au- 

 thority, South Penn Oil Co.; elevation, 1305' B. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Sand, Little Dunkard 1250 1298 



Big Lime (oil, 2285') 2244 2310 



