96 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SAINT LOUIS MEETING 



SOME DEFINITE CORRELATIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA COAL BEDS IN MINGO 

 COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, WITH THOSE OF LETCHER COUNTY, SOUTHEAST- 

 ERN KENTUCKY 



BY I. C. WHITE 



{Ahstract) 



The new Volume IV, Part L, Series IV, of the Kentucky Geological Survey, 

 J. B. Hoeing, State Geologist, gives much valuable detailed information on the 

 Kanawha Series of Coals, so extensively mined at Jenkins, McRoberts, Flem- 

 ing, and other points in Letcher County, Kentucky. This publication, by A, F. 

 Krider, gives for the first time such accurate and detailed descriptions of the 

 stratigraphic column of the southeastern Kentucky and adjoining Virginia 

 region coal fields that it now becomes possible to correlate several of these 

 Kentucky and Virginia coals definitely with the main beds of the Kanawha 

 Series as studied and classified by White, Hennen, and Reger in Mingo and 

 adjacent counties of West Virginia. 



Presented in full extemporaneously. 



RECORDS OF THREE VERY DEEP WELLS DRILLED IN THE APPALACHIAN 

 OIL FIELDS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA 



BY I. C. WHITE 



{Abstract) 



The detailed records of three deep wells are given in this paper: (1) Der- 

 rick City, near Bradford, Pennsylvania ; (2) Geary well, near McDonald, Penn- 

 sylvania, and (3) the Martha Goff well, near Clarksburg, West Virginia, the 

 latter two of which exceed 7,000 feet in depth. In addition to the interesting 

 stratigraphic data afforded by the records, reference is made to the tempera- 

 ture results obtained by Mr. C. E. Van Orstrand, • Physical Geologist of the 

 United States Geological Survey, through the courtesy of Messrs. Pew and 

 Corrin, vice-presidents of the Hope Natural Gas Company, who expect to make 

 the Goff well the deepest one ever drilled, and thus exceed that of the famous 

 one at Czuchow, which stopped at 7,349 feet. 



Presented in full extemporaneously. 



Discussion 



Mr. Deckek : With reference to the distribution of the salt mentioned by 

 Doctor White, no salt, but about 150 feet of gypsum and interstratified shales, 

 occur in the deep well at Erie, Pennsylvania. However, in a deep well on the 

 farm of Mr. Hindekoper, west of Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, a thickness 

 of 75 feet of salt has been reported. 



Dr. F. R. Van Horn : In the Cleveland, Ohio, district we have five Salina 

 salt strata aggregating something like 160 feet instead of 100 feet, as stated 

 by Doctor White. He has indicated that in the records of these deep wells no 

 gas was found in what he calls the Niagara limestone. In Cleveland, in what 

 we think to be the Lockport dolomite, we have the horizon called the Newburg 



