410 GLACIAL FORMATIONS OF ERIE AND OHIO BASINS. 



At William Watson's, on the south border of the Licking resei-voir, a 

 gas-well boring penetrated 150 feet of drift. It is on ground perhaps 100 

 feet above the level of the reservoir. Rock is exposed on Mr. Watson's 

 farm at levels still higher than the well mouth. 



A series of gas wells on Little Walnut Creek show a large amount 

 of drift along its valley from near the source of the stream to Can;.' 

 Winchester, near which it enters the Scioto Valley. The writer's notto 

 were obtained from the well drillers or officers of the gas companies soon 

 after the borings were made, and therefore represent quite accurately the 

 thickness of drift. The structure of the drift was not so well observed, 

 but a few apparently accurate records will be presented. 



A well at the border of the canal, between Baltimore and Basil, whose 

 mouth is about 850 feet above tide, has 302 feet of drift. Its drift section, 

 as given by the driller, J. H. Taylor, of Louisville, Ohio, is as follows: 



Section of drift beds in a gaa Coring near Basil, Ohio. 



Keet. 



1. "Common clay " (till?) -■ - - 8 



2. Coarse gravel - 12 



3. Fine qnicksand 1 10 



4. Gravel - 40 



5. Sand , . . 128 



6. Blue clay, extending to Berea grit 4 



Total drift. 302 



Gas well No 1, at Hadley Junction, is reported by the driller, Frank 

 Hugaboom, of Pleasantville, Ohio, to have penetrated 335 feet of drift. The 

 altitude of the well mouth is 883 feet above tide, making the rock floor only 

 548 feet. The same driller reports that a well just east of the village, on 

 ground about 900 feet above tide, penetrated 148 feet, and another near by 

 only 45 feet of drift, while on much highei- ground a mile or so east of 

 Hadley rock is struck at about 30 feet. Hadley Junction is therefore 

 near the east border of the valley. The deep valley extends south a cou])le 

 of miles from Hadley before swinging westward. Wells near its southern 

 border are reported by Mr. Hugaboom to have the following amounts of 

 drift: The Lamb well, 1 mile west of Pleasantville, 225 feet; Levi Hite's 

 well, 1^ miles west of Pleasantville, 326 feet; a well near Mr. Hite's (owner's 

 name not learned), 360 feet; the Watson well, near Hite's, 225 feet. In all 

 the wells reported by Mr. Hugaboom the main part of the till is within 50 



