WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 45! 



W. W. Gordon 2011 Well Record (643). 



Troy District; on Bushcamp Run, 1.2 miles west of Newberne; 



authority, Hope Natural Gas Co.; completed, Jan. 27, 1910; elevation, 



905' B. 



Top. Bottom. 

 Feet. Feet. 



Little Dunkard Sand 840 865 



Big Dunkard Sand 930 950 



Gas Sand 1000 1110 



Second Cow Run Sand 1210 1335 



Salt Sand 1445 1490 



Salt Sand 1645 1670 



Little Lime 1802 1814 



Pencil Cave 1814 1820 



Big Lime 1820 1890 



Big Injun Sand 1890 1937 



Berea Sand 2248 2251 



Total depth 2358 



The above well made only a show of gas and was aban- 

 doned as a dry hole. 



Prospective Oil and Gas Areas, Troy District. Troy Dis- 

 trict offers several localities where additional prospecting 

 might be done with profit. The following suggestions are 

 made: (1) The large amount of oil found in the Berea Sand 

 in the Fink Pool of Lewis, the Newberne Pool of Gilmer, and 

 the Yellow Creek Pool of Calhoun, all of which are very 

 nearly at the same structural level, with no intervening folds, 

 indicates that these three pools may all be connected with a 

 continuous chain of wells. It is possible that the strike of 

 the pool may veer somewhat southward across Troy District, 

 owing to the influence of the Robinson Syncline, which er 

 ters the district from the north, but dies out against the 

 slope of the Chestnut Ridge Anticline. It seems probable, 

 therefore, that oil might be found between the 550 and 600- 

 foot structure contours in the vicinity of Coxs Mills and 

 westward along Pikecamp Run and northeastward toward 

 Conings. (2) The presence of gas in the Big Injun Sand in 

 the Spurgeon (614) well, and the showing of gas in the same 

 sand in the Law (615) well, indicate that oil might possibly 

 be found at a lower structural level toward the Robinson Syn- 

 cline on the east, the test being made preferably in the vicinity 

 of Spurgeon to avoid the water that may be along the axis 

 of the syncline. (3) That portion of the district southeast of 



