GENERAL GEOLOGY OF BURGETTSTOWN QUADRANGLE. 47 
fii area of development in Cherry Valley, should not be productive. 
Iheie has been an attempt to extend the development in this direc¬ 
tion, but the wells drilled have been of small production, and this has 
tended to discourage the further testing of the field. The small yield 
of the v ells is probably due to the hard and compact condition of 
the sand. 1 his may change at any point and wells of large produc¬ 
tion be developed. 
b mm the C ross Creek syncline a long, narrow trough extends to 
the Krackemer wells at the head of Cherry Valley. These wells 
pi oduce oil fiom the Gordon sand. The structural conditions seem 
favorable for the existence of an oil pool in the Hundred-foot or one 
of the lower sands along the bottom of the north slope of the trough 
from the Krackemer wells to the Cross Creek development. 
WEST MIDDLETOWN SYNCLINE. 
The only large syncline in the quadrangle which has as yet fur¬ 
nished no oil is the West Middletown syncline, which extends south¬ 
ward into the Claysville quadrangle. One test well (No. 818) on 
the Gilbert Stewart heirs’ farm was drilled by Barnsdall & Co. in 
connection with the Wheeling Gas Company in what would appear 
to be a very favorable location, ^o detailed record or positive 
information could be obtained about the well, but there seems to be 
little doubt that it was dry in all sands. Probably the most favor¬ 
able location for a test well in this territory would be along the 
Wabash Railroad 1 mile west of the Twin Bridges. Since the com¬ 
pletion of the field work information has been received that a well 
was drilled near the intersection of the public roads three-fourths 
of a mile northeast of West Middletown. This location is almost 
exactly in the bottom of the syncline, at a favorable position for an 
oil pool. It is understood that the sands here were also found to 
be dry. 
M’DONALD POOL. 
On the east edge of the quadrangle a portion of the McDonald pool 
is represented. The oil here comes from the Gordon and Fifth sands, 
and the wells are therefore represented on the map in blue. As only 
a portion of the pool is shown the map does not fully represent the 
conditions causing the accumulation at this point. The oil is found, 
however, as in the previously described pools, in the bottom and on 
the northwest slope of the syncline. The conditions from Primrose 
to the Krackemer wells at the head of Cherry Valley all seem to be 
favorable for oil accumulation, though at the present time there is 
considerable acreage within this area that is not producing. The 
country was not sufficiently examined for old dry holes or unsuccess¬ 
ful tests to say that this area has not been thoroughly prospected. 
