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725 feet, which caused a flow of water until March 1, when casing was 
put in and the water stopped off. 
Struck oil at the top of third sand April 4, at 1, 183 feet, the rock being 
nearly all good pebble rock ; after passing through it (1,200 feet) drilled 
12 feet into slate for a pocket ; tubed well April 12 ; commenced pumping 
12 barrels a day, and the well is now doing 13 barrels. Much gas all the 
time. Cost $6,557. 
No. 18 well, on Queenstown Run; January 2, 1872—May 8, 1872; 
water cased out at 290 feet. Best show of oil at 1,390. Cost $6,671. 
No. 14 well, on Queenstown Run; June 11, 1872—September 2, 1872 ; 
water cased out at 227 feet. Little oil in third sand ; will push it deeper. 
It only remains to give vertical sections of the Measures passed through, 
premising, that the Great Conglomerate No. XII, the base rock of the 
Coal Measures forms the low cliffs at water level in the river valley ; all 
the hills being built up of the nearly horizontal Lower Coal Measures or 
Allegheny River System, and the underground of Sub-Carboniferous and 
Devonian. 
The following records of wells No. 4 and No. 5 of the foregoing descrip- 
tion were made from labels on sample bottles, marked daily by the well 
drillers, and are not supposed to be perfectly reliable, but are neverthe- 
less for the most part accurate notations of the character of the Sub-car- 
boniferous and Upper Devonian Measures penetrated in reaching the 
oil-bearing strata. 
RECORD OF OIL WELL NO. 4, 
Struck the ‘mountain sandrock”’ at a depth of 59 feet. 
Got through it ato... cence ence ee ee eee tees 240 feet. 
Frey sand ab... cece ese cee eee eee eect ete eee e ee nee teens 898 <‘ 
Grey Sand at... cee cece cee e eee e renee teen ee cee tees ees 988 4 
Gwey sand ate... - 12s sector cere tees eten eee ments age tt 940 <* 
Dark gray Sand... 66s esses eect rene etter etre nesses tees sees 944 ¢ 
Place slate << eee atl eee ed 2 te Sch re ee 947 * 
Dank, LOCK. pce yee ce Fe Foie en on ria eee Ot A eeithee ete ost no Ope 
Davle rOCk Gc tae ote oss shrine eee coe hye ides sas see ee 955. SS 
Fray SAND... cece cece eee e eee ee eee t ee tet nce s eee eee ee nenes 965 ** 
Slate LOCK: . cece cee es ec eh enh ste ne ema eciaey cise rite seme ee igs S16. s 
Black rochkese qucsck sue cbaseeees o* Mca RENE oe hres eee naicyse O90, ** 
Black sand ...-.s:s.-e+e0 Pee EL URES VG TN ps es) NANOS Vues 993, & 
Grey sand....----+- ele Sede es oe ha oi cs pe 1,008 , 2 
Grey sand....+++++++++ ie seis i ee Sees ee cs eee 1,008 7 
Blue sand, hard... ..-.--2e-see eect eerste cere eee eee eens 1,005... * 
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