H k™=£y d ] detailed sections. 61 
Few wells of which the records are available have been drilled in 
this eastern section of the Coastal Plain outside of the oil fields in the 
immediate vicinity of Beaumont. At the Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas 
City Railroad station the section shows 175 feet of clays and sands, 
as follows: 
Section at Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Bail road station at Beaumont. 
Feet. 
i. Clay 6 
2. Sand 2 
3. Blue clay _ 37 
4. Sand with shells 4 
5. Blue clay with thin streaks of sand 71 
6. Sand with water 55 
About 22 miles southwest of Beaumont, on sec. 50, Texas and New 
Orleans Railroad lands, a well 104 feet deep shows 100 feet of mottled 
clay overlying 4 feet of white sand. The deep wells at Landrum, in 
Jefferson County, and near Winnie, in Chambers County, show the 
same conditions. 
The following is the log of the Dixie Oil and Pipe Line Company's 
well, 3 miles north of Winnie, on the J. M. Durant league, in Cham- 
bers County. 
Log of well of Dixie Oil and Pipe Line Company, 3 miles north of Winnie, Cham- 
bers County, Tex. 
[Elevation, 26 feet.] 
Character of strata. 
Soil 
Yellow clay (2-foot log at 56 feet) 
Water sand ■_ 
Yellow clay ..'.__ 
Water sand 
Blue tough clay 
Water sand 
Tough clay 
Clay shells 
Blue tough clay ... 
Blue rock 
Blue clay and shells 
Gray sandstone 
Tough clay 
Clay with shells 
Hard shale 
Soft clay 
Gravel 
Thickness. From 
Feet. 
58 
30 
90 
124 
70 
243 
212 
21 
20 
20 
163 
1 
318 
62 
20 
20 
30 
To- 
Feet. 

2 
60 
90 
180 
304 
380 
623 
835 
856 
876 
897 
1,059 
1,060 
1,378 
1,440 
1,460 
1,480 
Feet. 

60 
90 
180 
304 
380 
623 
835 
856 
876 
1,059 
1,060 
1,378 
1,440 
1,460 
1,480 
1,510 
