480 PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS. 



Waters Heirs No. 5 Well Record (730). 



Saltlick District, Braxton County; at head of Posey Run, 2.3 miles 

 northwest of Orlando; authority, Snaith & Wilson; elevation, 1232' L. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Sand, Little Dunkard 700 760 



Sand, Gas 1025 1340 



Sand Salt 1520 1835 



Little Lime 1890 1920 



Big Lime 1925 1960 



Big Iniun Sand (break, 1965-8'; gas, 1985') 1960 2200 



Thirtylfoot Sand (gas, 2596') 2591 2600 



Gordon Stray Sand (gas, 2618') 2616 2636 



Total depth 2665 



10" casing, 150', pulled out; 8%", 800', pulled out; 6%", 1971', 

 left in well; 2" tubing, 2665', left in well; tubing packer set at 

 2594'; gas test in tubing, 18/10" mercury in 2" opening; gas test 

 in Braden Head, 65/10" mercury in 2" opening; volume, 2,150,000 

 cubic feet daily. 



Waters Heirs No. 6 Well Record (730 A). 



Saltlick District, Braxton County; at head of Posey Run, 2.2 miles 

 northwest of Orlando; authority, Snaith & Wilson. 



Top. Bottom. 

 Feet. Feet. 



Sand, Big Dunkard 800 880 



Salt Sand 1150 1400 



Salt Sand 1500 1880 



Big Lime 1920 1990 



Big Injun Sand (gas, 2014') 1990 2240 



Gordon Stray Sand (gas, 2624') 2622 2633 



Gordon. Sand (gas, 2663') 2651 2670 



Total depth 2679 



Packer on 2" tubing set at 2059'; gas test in tubing, 95/10" 

 mercury in 2" opening; gas test in Braden Head, 22/10" mercury 

 in 2" opening; 6%" and 8-inch casing left in well; volume, 2,500,000 

 cubic feet daily. 



Two wells have been drilled in Saltlick District, Braxton, 

 along the Left Fork of Oil Creek. The George Robinette No. 

 1 (731), the record of which was published in Volume I (A), 

 page 392, of the Survey, 1.5 miles northeast of Burnsville, 

 made a little gas in the Gordon and a show of oil in the Fifth. 

 The George Robinette No. 2 (732), located one-fourth mile 

 west of the other well, made considerable gas as the well still 

 burns with a great flame. These two wells were drilled about 

 fifteen years ago and were abandoned, but in the present stage 



