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will be secured to the stockholders for all the money so perseveringly ex- 

 pended in sinking the well. 



Well No. 2 also yields a steady flow of gas, and from well No. 1 over 

 three thousand barrels of water escapa per day. 



These wells afford an opportunity of obtaining exact measurements of 

 the thickness of the Waverly rocks on the margin of the Coal Measures, 

 and aid in determining the character of the successive strata. 



Well No. 8, near Genoa Station, in Jefferson township, shows that the 

 Waverly above the red shale is eight hundred and seventy- two feet in 

 thickness, and, including the red shale, is nine hundred and thirty four 

 feet, the Waverly being here capped with sixty feet of coarse sand- rock, 

 either the Carboniferous Conglomerate or the Massillon sandstone. If 

 this is regarded as the Conglomerate, sixty feet should be added to both 

 the above numbers. Above the sand-rock is sixty feet of shaly sand- 

 stone, capped with the cherty limestone, underlain by fire-clay, and a 

 faint outcrop of coal. I am inclined to regard this, as well as the mass- 

 ive sandstone over the lower coal at Newcastle, as the Massillon sand- 

 stone, Coals Nos. 1 and No. 2 having disappeared in this direction. The 

 Massillon sandstone rests upon the Waverly, on the hills above Genoa 

 Station, and directly on Coal No. 1, at Newcastle. At wells Nos. 1 and 

 2 the Waverly is eight hundred and seventy-seven feet thick, the olive 

 shales rising to the coal, under the same rock, at Newcastle. Westward 

 from that point this sandstone rests directly upon the Waverly shales. 



At well No. 6, the interval between the lowest known coal, which is 

 certainly near the base of the Coal Measures, and the top of the red shale, 

 is eight hundred and fifty feet. This well commenced in the Waverly at 

 one hundred and fifty-five feet below the lowest coal, passed through 

 Waverly shales to the depth of two hundred and forty feet, then argil- 

 laceous shales, with not more than six thin silicious bands, four hundred 

 and fifty-eight feet. At six hundred and ninety-eight feet a hard, fine- 

 grained sand-rock, with oil, was met with, but it was without crevices, 

 and no water flowed from it. The entire absence of the Waverly Con- 

 glomerate, and of the second sand-rock, and the predominance of argil- 

 laceous shale is quite significant. Westward, the materials in all the 

 wells gradually become coarser; the Waverly Conglomerate, and the 

 other sand-rocks were found in normal position, and the supply of oil in 

 the wells was more abundant. All the indications point to an old shore 

 line, a little to the west during the deposit of the Waverly rocks, along 

 which the coarse sandstones accumulated as shore deposits, while the 

 finer argillaceous shales were deposited in deep water at the east. 



In well No. 3 the second sand-rock was struck at two hundred and 



