RECENT Oil. DEVELOPMENTS IN SCOTT CO. 181 



WELLS DRILLING. 



At Oneida the Easter Oil and Gas Company's well No. 1 began drilling 

 August 3. It is located about a half mile southeast of town at an eleva- 

 tion of 1481 feet. The well mouth is 80 or 90 feet above the top of the 

 Lee formation, though the following log, as given by the drillers, fails to 

 note the sandstone that forms the top of the Lee. This sandstone is struck 

 in water wells in town at a depth of 20 to 40 feet, and in the water well 

 at the Oneida and Western Railway shops it was penetrated to a depth of 

 90 feet without reaching bottom. It is possible, though hardly probable, 

 that this thick sandstone has changed to shale in the three-fourths of a 

 mile interval between the two wells. The depth to the Almy or Bear 

 Creek coal was not definitely noted in the Easter well, but was given as 

 "somewhere about 90 feet." This coal crops out in the south edge of 

 town and should be only about 50 or 60 feet deep in the well. 



Record of Easter Oil and Gas Company's well No. 1 at Oneida, Tenn. 



Thickness From To 

 Soft gray shale, with 12-inch coal at about 90 feet 



(probably 50 or 60 feet instead) 300 300 



White sandstone 55 300 355 



Black slate 35 355 390 



White sandstone 70 390 460 



Black slate 20 460 480 



White sandstone 45 480 525 



Black slate 5 525 530 



White sandstone 120 530 650 



Black slate 5 650 655 



Sandstone with water 40 655 695 



Coal (and shale?) 5 695 700 



Hard black slate 30 700 730 



Soft black shale , 145 730 875 



Hard black slate and sand 10 875 885 



White sandstone 15 885 900 



Soft black slate 55 900 955 



White sandstone (base of Lee) 35 955 990 



Limestone (top of Pennington) 10 990 1000 



In addition to the foregoing well, another, the Anderson No. 1, is being 

 drilled in the western edge of Oneida by the Oneida Oil and Gas Com- 

 pany. This one was down only a few hundred feet in the Lee formation 

 when visited and so no record was obtained. 



