-532 PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS. 



The Wesley Knapp No. 1 (350A) well, drilled by the 

 South Penn Oil Company one-half mile southeast of Leading 

 Creek, was reported to have made a show of gas, but was 

 abandoned as a dry hole. It starts 145 feet, by hand level, 

 below the bench of the Pittsburgh Coal. The Robert A. 

 Kraus No. 1 (351), drilled by the Hope Natural Gas Company, 

 on Crooked Run, 1.3 miles southward from Alum Bridge, was 

 a light gas well, but was abandoned. It still supplies gas for 

 domestic purposes in the Kraus farmhouse. The five follow- 

 ing wells are located along Crooked Run just east of the 

 Chestnut Ridge Anticline. The broken and uncertain charac- 

 ter of the sands of the Catskill Series has made drilling a pre- 

 carious proposition in this locality: 



Martin Kenny No. 1244 Well Record (352). 



Freemans Creek District; on Crooked Run, 1.2 miles southeast of 

 Alum Bridge; authority, Hope Natural Gas Co.; completed, Aug. 31, 

 1909; elevation, 945' L. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Conductor 16 



Little Dunkard Sand 400 450 



Big Dunkard and Burning Springs Sands 455 625 



Gas Sand 660 686 



Second Cow Run Sand 694 786 



Salt Sand 790 928 



Salt Sand (gas, 1132') 1068 1180 



Big Lime 1390 1500 



Big Injun Sand (gas, 1573') 1500 1630 



Squaw Sand 1680 1810 



Total depth (no more sands found) 2778 



The above well was abandoned as a dry hole. 



B. L. Kraus No. 242 Well Record (353). 



Freemans Creek District; on Crooked Run, 1.5 miles south of Alum 



Bridge; authority, Hope Natural Gas Co.; completed Oct 18, 1901; 

 elevation, 915' B. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Little and Big Dunkard Sands 390 500 



Unrecorded (gas, 695-800') 500 815 



Second Cow Run Sand 815 920 



Salt Sand '..1020 1180 



Big Injun Sand 1470 1580 



Gordon Stray Sand 2165 2170 



Gordon Sand 2190 2195 



Fifth Sand (gas, 2350') 2343 2349 



Total depth 2419 



