WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



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G. C. Spaur No. 2493 Well Record (544). 



Skin Creek District; on Skin Creek, 1.0 mile southeast of Alkires 

 Mills; authority, Hope Natural Gas Co.; completed, May 22, 1912; ele- 

 vation, 1055' B. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Big Dunkard Sand 400 480 



Second Cow Run Sand 690 785 



Salt Sand 1030 1170 



Salt Sand 1180 1275 



Little Lime 1561 1581 



Pencil Cave 1581 1587 



Big Lime 1587 1652 



Big Injun Sand 1652 1792 



Berea Sand 1951 1969 



Fifty-foot Sand 2034 2050 



Gordon Stray Sand 2195 2204 



Gordon Sand (gas, 2207-28') 2205 2228 



Total depth 2230 



The following well, drilled near by, was a good gasser: 

 W. R. Jewel No. 4070 Well Record (545). 



Skin Creek District; on Skin Creek, 0.5 mile northwest of Jewel 

 School; authority, Pittsburgh & W. Va. Gas Co.; completed, Sept. 7, 

 1912; elevation, 1310' B. 



Top. Bottom. 

 Feet. Feet. 



Sand, Second Cow Run 1075 1090 



Sand, Salt 1328 1510 



Sand, Salt. 1514 . 1"624 



Big Lime 1876 1975 



Sand, Big Injun 1975 2118 



Sand, Berea 2175 2200 



Sand, Fifty-foot 2355 2386 



Sand, Thirty-foot 2391 2435 



Sand, Gordon Stray 2444 2475 



Sand, Gordon 2479 2495 



Total depth 2514 



Pressure in 3" tubing, at end of 40 minutes, 900 Ibs. 



The Albert Gould No. 1 (546), drilled along Skin Creek, 

 one mile above the Spaur well, was reported to have made a 

 large amount of salt water and enough gas to run the drill- 

 ing machinery, but was abandoned as a dry hole. The fol- 

 lowing well was drilled at the head of Skin Creek, near the 

 Upshur Line, and made a show of both oil and gas, but was 

 abandoned as a dry hole : 



