HAYES AND 
KENNEDY. . 
SOUR LAKE DISTRICT. 
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Log of Texas Oil Company's well on the B. F. Howard league, Jefferson Count//, 
Tex. , 3 miles west of Sabine Pass. 
[Elevation, about 15 feet.] 
Character of strata. 
Blue and yellow clay 
Dark quicksand 
Blue clay 
Blue clay with asphalt 
Blue and yellow clay with oil at bottom 
Sand 
Blue clay 
Bluish-black sand 
Blue clay 
Coarse white sand 
Blue clay and sand 
Sand, clay, and shells. . . 
Thickness. 
From— 
Feet. 
Feet. 
170 

130 
170 
430 
300 
33 
730 
236 
763 
2 
999 
38 
1,001 
17 
1 , 039 
2 
1,056 
77 
1,058 
155 
1,135 
96 
1 , 390 
To- 
Feet. 
170 
300 
730 
763 
999 
1,001 
1,039 
1,056 
1 , 058 
1 , 135 
1 , 390 
1,486 
Petroleum in small quantities showed in the sand No. 12, and it is 
claimed there was enough gas to lift the casing a few inches. The 
sand was very fine and flowed easily. It filled the well casing in a 
few hours to a height of 300 feet. 
In the German- American Oil Company's well the sand No. 12 of 
above section was underlain by yellow clay and gravel to a depth of 
60 feet. In the Coast Ridge well wood was found in the sand No. 10 
at a depth of 1,120 feet. The hotel well gave abundance of salt water 
at 1,061 feet. 
The limestone and sandstones so prevalent in the upper portion of 
the section in the Beaumont district do not appear in any of these 
wells. It may be inferred from this either that the sandstones have 
a dip sufficiently steep to carry them below the bottom of these wells, 
or that they thin out toward the southeast and are replaced by uncon- 
solidated sands. The differences in the sections at Beaumont and 
Sabine are probably due to both of these causes. 
SOUR LAKE DISTRICT. 
LOCATION AND HISTORY. 
This district is located in Hardin County, about 8 miles north of 
the Southern Pacific Railroad station Sour Lake, and about 20 miles 
a little north of west from Beaumont. The occurrence of oil and 
asphalt in this district has been known since the earliest settlement 
of the country. The first published account is in Wall's work on 
the asphalt deposits of Trinidad. At several points the surface of 
the ground is covered with asphaltum, evidently a residuum from 
petroleum, which in small quantities still reaches the surface. Con- 
siderable quantities of inflammable gas also reach the surface along 
with the oil and with the sulphur water which supplies the lake. 
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