WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 489 



The Katie Stump No. 1 (780), located at the west edge of 

 Stumptown, in Calhoun, the record of which is published in 

 the section for Stumptown, pages 97-8, made only a light show 

 of oil and gas in the Salt Sand and was abandoned as a dry 

 hole. The following is the record of another dry hole drilled 

 in the same vicinity : 



Melville Stump No. 1 Well Record (781). 



Center District; on Bear Fork, 0.6 mile southwest of Stumptown; 

 authority, C. T. Caldwell et al.; elevation, 755' B. 



Top. Bottom. 



Feet. Feet. 



Sand, Burning Springs 525 



Sand, Gas 625 



Sand Second Cow Run (little gas, 1100') 850 



Sand^ Salt 1440 



Sand, Maxton 1550 



Total depth 1606 



"The formations in this well were irregular, black shale and 

 lime shells in place of the regular sands. A very dry hole and 

 barren of oil, gas and water." 



Three shallow wells were drilled by primitive methods 

 many years ago along Right Fork of Steer Creek, about one 

 mile north of the Chestnut Ridge Anticline, where gas seep- 

 ages had been known to exist. The Daniel Huffman No. 1 

 (782), was reported to have been drilled about 1100 feet and 

 made enough gas to have run a mill. The Eli Shock No. 1 

 (783), according to Mr. Shock, was drilled about 600 feet deep 

 and made considerable gas which still burns at the well mouth. 

 The Eli Shock No. 2 (784) was about 600 feet deep and made 

 only a little gas. These wells start 200 to 220 feet below the 

 Pittsburgh Coal and therefore failed to reach the Salt Sand ol 

 Rosedale by about 750 feet, as its depth below the Pittsburgh 

 Coal should be about 1550 feet here. The following is the 

 record of a deep test drilled in the western end of the district. 

 This record was first published in Volume I (A), page 385, and 

 subsequently in the Wirt-Roane-Calhoun Report, page 461, of 

 the Survev : 



