WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 475 



Thickness Total 



Feet. Feet. 



Shale, white 13 2618 



Sand Gordon 7 2625 



Slate' 54 2679 



Red rock 21 2700 



Slate, dark 30 2730 



Sand, Fifth 47 2777 



Slate, white 3 2780 



Total depth 2825 



The above well, the record of which was published in 

 Volume I (A), page 380, of the Survey, was a dry hole. 



The following well, the record of which was published in 

 Volume I (A), page 376, of the Survey, was drilled in an 

 otherwise untested territory, about midway between the 

 Grassland Syncline and the Chestnut Ridge Anticline. It was 

 abandoned as a dry hole but there is considerable gas seeping 

 from the ground around the hole. The gas burns with a flame 

 5 feet high from a 1-inch pipe driven in the ground : 



Amanda B. Connor No. 1 Well Record (717). 



Glenville District; on Ellis Creek, 2 miles north of Ellis; authority, 

 South Penn Oil Co.; elevation, 840' L. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Coal, Elk Lick 325 



Sand, Big Dunkard 650 709 



Sand, Salt 1300 1395 



Sand, Maxton 1515 1550 



Pencil Cave 1585 1600 



Big Lime 1600 1660 



Big Injun Sand 1660 1990 



Sand, Gordon Stray (shells) 2410 



Sand, Fifth 2622 2626 



Total depth 2703 



The following well, the record of which was published in 

 Volume I (A), page 376, of the Survey, was reported to have 

 made a light show of gas and was abandoned as a dry hole : 



