WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 405 



E. A. Bennett No. 2071 Well Record (539). 



Courthouse District; on Skin Creek, 0.8 mile southeast of Browns- 

 ville; authority, Pittsburgh & W. Va. Gas Co.; elevation, 1255' B. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Coal, Redstone 260 265 



Sand, Salt 1220 1320 



Sand, Salt 1465 1550 



. Sand, Maxton 1835 1865 



Big Lime 1900 2015 



Sand, Big Injun ;... .2015 2140 



Sand, Fifty foot (gas show) 2350 2384 



Sand, Gordon Stray 2525 2565 



Sand, Gordon (gas) and unrecorded to bottom.. 2600 2630 



The Elias M. Stalnaker No. 1 (540), drilled by the Pitts- 

 burgh and West Virginia Gas Company, was reported to have 

 made a show of gas, but its record was not secured. The fol- 

 lowing well, in addition to its gas production from the Berea 

 Sand, showed a little black oil : 



S. O. Rittenhouse No. 2601 Well Record (541). 



Courthouse District; on Sleepcamp Run, 1.6 miles northeast of 

 Finster; authority, Hope Natural Gas Co.; completed, June 22, 1912; 

 elevation, 1170' B. 



The W. R. Jewel No. 1 (543), drilled by White and Chid- 

 ister. was reported to have made a small amount of gas, but 

 was abandoned. Its record was not secured. 



Prospective Oil and Gas Areas, Courthouse District. 

 Almost the entire area of Courthouse District has already been 

 tested for gas and oil, only a few r small portions remaining 



