1891.] [Lesley 



Table of Wdls and Ownerships, February 25, 1891. 



Greensburg Fuel Gas Company 5 wells. 



Southwest Natural Gas Company 9 " 



Versailles Natural Gas Company 3 " 



Youghiogheny Gas Company 3 " 



Jeanette Glass Works 4 " 



Manor and Irwin Gas Company 2 " 



Westmoreland Specialty Company 1 " 



Westmoreland and Cambria Natural Gas Company ...13 



Carnegie Brothers & Company 11 " 



Philadelphia Natural Gas Company 23 " 



National Tube Works 



Total number reported by M. G. Moore 85 



The W. & C. Company's 13 wells are all piped to Johnstown. Their 

 depths and pressures at various dates may be found on a following table. 

 The deeper are on the hilltops. They all get their gas in the Ganls sand 

 rock of Washington county. Well No. 12 was deepened with the design 

 to reach a lower gas sand horizon ; but the rope was cut by the sharp 

 sand driven up by the gas issuing from the Gants sand. Before the tools 

 could get through it they were lost, and fishing tools also afterwards ; so 

 the well was abandoned, and No. 13 (Agnew well; was drilled a short 

 distance south of No. 12. 



This new Agnew well reached the Gants sand January 15, 1891, went 

 through it, and was cased with 8-inch pipe ; packed just above the top of 

 the sand ; supplied with another inner 6-inch pipe ; packed again at the 

 bottom of the sand ; and the Gants sand gas between the pipes laid into 

 the Johnstown main. 



Drilling was resumed through the 6-inch pipe, and stopped, February 

 21, 1891, at 2700 feet. The "Gordon sand" was found at 175 feet be- 

 neath the Gants sand, was 35 feet thick, and gave gas at only 30 Ibs. pres- 

 sure, which, however, in twenty minutes rose to 175 Ibs., "when it was 

 necessary to discontinue the test ;" why is not explained. "While the 

 pressure in the Gordon is now (February 25) very much greater than in 

 the Gants, the volume is much less, as is clearly shown by comparing the 

 minute pressures ; that of the Gants being 65, and of the Gordon only 30 

 Ibs." [A diagram of the pipe and packing arrangement for passing 

 through the Gants sand, and drawing off its gas to Johnstown, is appended 

 to Mr. Moore's report.] 



Below the Gordon sand, for 1070 feet to the bottom of the well, not a 

 sign of gas or gas rock was observable. [This only bears out all Mr. J. 

 F. Carll's observations, published in his reports on the oil regions, especi- 

 ally his Seventh Report, 15, just published by the Geological Survey of 

 Pennsylvania.] The failure of the Agnew well to get a good supply from 

 the Gordon sand does not necessarily condemn it over the whole Grape- 



