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FIFTEENTH REPORT. 
shot owing to some difficulty over the responsibility for the public safety, 
'fhe appearances seem to indicate a small pumper similar to the Jackson - 
Church. 
Well Xo. 5. 3068 feet deep, was drilled on the Watson farm near the 
SE. Cor. of the SW. y 4 of SE. y 4 of Sec. 17, T. 12 X., R. 5 E., 
Buena Avista township, just about a half mile east of the city close to 
the intersection of the highway and the new electric railway from Sag- 
inaw to Bay City. There was a small show of gas in the Berea, but no 
showing of either oil or gas was reported in the Traverse. Oil was 
struck in the Dundee, but in such small quantity, that after standing 
six days, there was only a few gallons of oil in the well and about 180 
feet of water. The well which was at once abandoned without shooting 
was plugged to protect the Marshall brines from contamination and also 
to prevent leakage of gas which was made in considerable though not 
commercially important quantity from the Berea. The latter also 
yielded some very strong brine, perhaps 25 to 30 barrels, per day. The 
brine constantly flowed over the top of the casing in a small stream. 
The Upper Marshall or Xapoleon was struck at 000 feet or slightly 
higher than near the Bristol Street Bridge drillings. The Berea was 
struck at 1835 feet or practically the same depth, but the Dundee was 
292s feet or about 28 feet deeper. The structure appears to be that of 
a. structural bench or terrace for the upper formations and that of an 
asymmetrical anticline for the lower. In the latter case, the western 
limb is very much steeper than the eastern which dips but 2S feet 
from the Jackson-Ckurch to the Watson well, a distance of 2*4 miles. 
From the AA r atson east to the C. G. McClure well, recently put down 
to about 3000 feet near Gera in Sec. 8, Frankenmuth township, the 
rocks seem to be nearly flat, as the formations are reported to be at 
practically the same depth. Farther east the rocks must begin to rise 
up the side of the basin, as, at Reese, Tuscola County, the Xapoleon is 
probably less than 500 feet from the surface. The broad flat depression 
in the Berea to the east of Saginaw evidently dips toward the north 
and becomes much more pronounced as the top of the Berea drops from 
1850 feet in the AVatson to 2035 feet in the Mundy-Fifield. The syncline 
in the Dundee becomes still more pronounced in the same direction. 
AA>11 Xo. G or the Green Point well was located on the Globe-Blaisdell 
farm nearly opposite from the East Saginaw waterworks plant. This 
well is situated a little south of west from the Garey-Casamer and 
about 2*4 miles distant. The formations were reported to be 100-150 
feet deeper than in Saginaw and there was not the slightest show of 
oil at any of the horizons, even though the well was apparently drilled 
nearly to the base of the Dundee, where much water was encountered. 
Well Xo. 7 was located near Lawndale some four miles northwest of 
the Xo. 2 well in the XE. Cor. of Sec. 5, T. 12 X., R. 4 E. This well 
was also located at considerable distance to the west of the supposed 
crest of the anticlinal and as drilling progressed, this proved to be the 
fact for all of the formations were reported to be practically at the 
same depths as in the Mundy-Fifield. The Berea, Saginaw sand, and 
the Dundee would therefore be found respectively at about 2070. 2520 
and 3150 feet. 
