8 14 J. F. NEWSOM 



the Trenton limestone, the great gas producing formation, is 



about 850 feet below the surface at this point. 1 



J. F. Newsom. 

 Stanford University, 

 August 25, 1902. 



1 At Geneva, three and one-half miles southwest from Ogden Cemetery, Trenton 

 rock (the gas producing bed of the region), was struck in a gas well at a depth o s f 

 832 feet. At Bickhart's mill, about two miles east of the cemetery, Trenton was 

 struck at a depth of 864 feet, with gas at a pressure of 335 pounds to the square inch. 



