WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 399 



Sarah Platt No. 2423 Well Record (524). 



Courthouse District; at Brownsville; authority, Hope Natural Gas 

 Co.; elevation, 1050' L. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Murphy Sand (water, 320') 285 355 



Moundsville Sand 450 495 



Little Dunkard Sand 610 645 



Big Dunkard Sand 705 728 



Gas Sand 818 855 



Little Lime 1705 1723 



Pencil Cave 1723 1751 



Big Lime 1751 1804 



Big Injun Sand 1804 1830 



Squaw Sand 1840 2035 



Sand 2083 2130 



Berea Sand (gas, 2158') 2154 2197 



Fifty-foot Sand 2210 2235 



Thirty-foot Sand 2325 2375 



Gordon Stray Sand 2385 2397 



Gordon Sand 2408 2418 



Fourth Sand 2457 2470 



Fifth Sand 2537 2570 



Total depth 2680 



The present rock pressure of this well is reported to be 

 400 to 440 pounds. 



Thomas Barnes No. 2456 Well Record (525). 



Courthouse District; on branch of Washburn Run, 1.4 miles north- 

 east of Brownsville; authority, Pittsburgh & W. Va. Gas Co.; eleva- 

 tion, 1225' B. 



Top. Bottom. 

 Feet. Feet. 



Coal, Redstone 145 150 



Sand, Maxton 1675 1700 



Big Lime 1785 1915 



Sand, Big Injun (oil show) 1915 2015 



Sand, Berea 2138 2198 



Sand, Fifty-foot 2215 2257 



Sand, Gordon Stray 2382 2393 



Sand, Gordon (gas) 2435 2475 



Total depth 2504 



The Louis Bennett No. 1 (526), the record of which is 

 published in the section for Brownsville, page 64, was a gas 

 well in the Gordon Sand. 



