224 The American Geologist. 
Drive pipe (ten incli) 
Shales 
White sand, with water 
Sandy shale 
Gray shale 
Sunbury (Berea) shale 
Berea grit (cased with 8^4 inch pipe) 
Bedford shale (red) 
\ black shale 
) white shale 
Corniferous, Lower Helderberg and 
Niagara limestone. 
Top at 
Salt-water at 
Salt-water at 
Base of limestone 
T944 feet of 6^ 
Ohio shales. 
logist. 
April, 1903. 
Thickness o! 
formation. 
54 feet 
Depth to bottom 
of formation. 
54 feet. 
91 
20 
145 
165 
135 
" 
300 
go 
'* 
390 
52 
) 25 
" 
442 
467 
103 
560 
570 
1 130 
142 
1272 
687 
1959 
2025 
2043 
2051 
2055 
2070 
2075 
1272 feet 
1407 " 
1682 " 
T959 " 
inch casing 
White slate. 66 
Red rock 18 
Limestone shell 8 
Clinton shales , Blue slate, break 4 
and sandstone ^ Shales and limestones 15 
Blue slate 5 
Clinton sand top at 2075 feet. 
Bottom of well at 2088 feet. 
Following is the record of the lower part of a well on the 
Bauer farm, two miles west of Sugar Grove. Samples of 
drillings below the Niagara were collected by the writer : 
Corniferous, Lower Helderberg and 
Niagara limestones, top at 
bottom at 
f Shales, light chocolate col- 
ored. Little lime 
Shales, green and chocolate 
Clinton shales j colored, the latter fossil- 
and sandstone ) iferous. Some lime 
Shales, green and chocolate 
colored. Much lime 
I Gas sand at 
The following skeleton record of the McNichols well, twen- 
ty-five miles south of Sugar Grove in Jackson township, Vin- 
ton county is of interest because it shows the thickness of both 
the Clinton and the Medina : 
1430 feet. 
2132 " 
36 " 
31 
37 
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