440 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1899. 



(3) 200 feet below the Crinoidal limestone. Black. Oil in sand; depth of well 

 160 feet; not torpedoed. Rathbone oil tract, Burning Springs district, Wirt County, 

 West Virginia. (59837.) 



(4) 250 feet below the Crinoidal limestone. Dark greenish. Oil in sand; depth 

 of well 350 feet. Well No. 6, farm of George Rice, Aurelius, Washington County, 

 Ohio. (59853.) 



(5) 300 feet below the Crinoidal limestone. Black. Oil in sand; depth of well 

 275 feet. Rathbone oil tract, Burning Springs district, Wirt County, West Virginia. 



(6) 450 feet below the Crinoidal limestone. Dark greenish. Oil in sand; depth 

 of well 500 feet; drilled 1865; torpedoed; yielded 8 barrels of oil on first day of pump- 

 ing. Well No. 1, farm of George Rice, Aurelius, Washington County, Ohio. (59852. ) 



(7) 650 feet below the Crinoidal limestone. Black. Oil in sand; depth of well 800 

 feet; not torpedoed; yielded 5 barrels of oil on first day of pumping. Newton Farm, 

 Aurelius, Washington County, Ohio. (59850. ) 



(8) 820 feet below the Crinoidal limestone. Black. Oil in sand; depth of well 840 

 feet. Petty Farm, Burning Springs district, Wirt County, West Virginia. (59839. ) 



(9) 930 feet below the Crinoidal limestone. Dark greenish; specific gravity 28 

 Baum. Oil in sand; depth of well 400 feet. Volcanic Coal and Oil Company, White 

 Oak district, Ritchie County, West Virginia. (59844.) 



(10) 980 feet below the Crinoidal limestone. Dark greenish; specific gravity 30 

 Baume. Oil in sand; depth of well 400 feet. Volcanic Oil and Coal Company, 

 White Oak district, Ritchie County, AVest Virginia. (59843.) 



(11 ) 1,100 feet below the Crinoidal limestone. Dark greenish; specific gravity 47 

 Baume. Oil in sand; depth of well 1,100 feet. Gracy lease, Burning Springs dis- 

 trict, Wirt County, West Virginia. (59840.) 



(12) 1,350 feet below the Crinoidal limestone. Amber; specific gravity 39 

 Baume. Oil in sand; depth of well 1,350 feet; drilled 1880; torpedoed; yielded 18 

 barrels of oil on the first day of flow. Well No. 14, farm of George Rice, Aurelius, 

 Washington County, Ohio. (59851.) 



(13) 1,500 feet below the Crinoidal limestone. Dark greenish; specific gravity 

 50 Baume. Oil in sand; depth of well 1,000 feet. Gale tract, White Oak district, 

 Ritchie County, West Virginia. (59849.) 



The following eleven specimens illustrate the occurrence at differ- 

 ent depths in the Pennsylvania field: 



(1) 180 feet below the Pittsburg coal bed. Light greenish red; specific gravity 34 

 Baume. Bailey farm, Dunkard Creek, Greene County, Pennsylvania. (59536. ) 



(2) 460 feet below the Pittsburg coal bed. Greenish red; specific gravity 35 

 Baume. Maple well, Dunkard, Greene County, Pennsylvania. (59577.) 



(3) 650 feet below the Pittsburg coal bed. Drilled in 1885, and only a few gallons 

 of oil were obtained; light greenish red. Clark's farm, Washington County, Penn- 

 sylvania. (59523.) 



(4) "Mountain Sand" of the Petroleum Measures (Lower Carboniferous). Dark 

 greenish red. Manifield well No. 1, Washington County, Pennsylvania. (59519. ) 



(5) 1,400 feet below the Pittsburg coal bed. Light greenish red. Huskill well, 

 Mount Morris, Greene County, Pennsylvania. (59534). 



(6) From the first sandstone of the Petroleum Measures (Venango) . Sand here 

 16 feet in thickness; oil in sand; depth of well 337 feet; drilled, 1870; torpedoed; 

 yielded 225 barrels of oil on first day of pumping. Black; specific gravity 32 Baume. 

 Well No. 1, farm of J. Blakely, Sugar Creek, Venango County, Pennsylvania. (59781.) 



(7) From the second sandstone of the Petroleum Measures ( Venango) . Sand here 

 38 feet in thickness; oil in sand; depth of well 583 feet; drilled 1872; torpedoed; 

 yielded 2 barrels of oil on first day of pumping. Black; specific gravity 43 Baum6. 



