120 OIL FIELDS OF TEXAS-LOUISIANA COASTAL PLAIN, [bull .212. 
pany located a well known as the Hooks No. 1 on the J. F. Oliver 
tract of the Maria Xinienes league — 2 on accompanying map, fig. 5, 
p. 114. This well gives the following section: 
Log of Hooks well No. 1, Saratoga, Hardin County, Tex. 
[Elevation, 100 feet..] 
Character of strata. 
Thickness. 
Feet. 
78 
95 
32 
53 
40 
3 
8 
9 
2 
8 
15 
5 
23 
51 
45 
4 
6 
4 
42 
15 
12 
8 
78 
2 
27 
8 
101 
3 
7 
From— 
To— 
1 
Sand 
Feet. 

78 
173 
205 
258 
205 
305 
308 
316 
325 
327 
335 
350 
355 
378 
429 
474 
478 
484 
488 
530 
545 
557 
565 
643 
645 
672 
680 
781 
784 
Feet. 
78 
9, 
Sand, oil, and water 
173 
8 
Hard blue and white clay_ 
205 
4 
Sand and oil _ _ _ _ _ 
258 
5 
White clay _ _ _ _ _ . 
265 
6 
Soft blue clay 
305 
7 
8 
Rock. . _ _ 
Sand or soft rock. . . . 
308 
316 
9 
10 
Rock, with gas at 325 
Hard rock . 
325 
327 
11 
12 
Gumbo .... 
Sand rock ... 
335 
350 
13 
Blue clay and shale . 
355 
14 
Sand cement; small streams of oil, first after 
325. Oil shows in all formations to this 
depth 
378 
15 
16 
Gravel, becoming coarser and changing from 
white to black toward bottom, and gumbo . 
Mostly gumbo, with small layers of very hard 
material, but no oil 
429 
474 
17 
18 
19 
Blue clay 
Sandstone, with oil of golden color; rock be- 
comes softer and gradually turns to sand. . . 
Sand; oil flows between 478 and 488 . . 
478 
484 
488 
20 
21 
Sandstone and blue clay in thin layers 
Blue clay; water from 475 and oil from 500 
feet, but not in large quantities. No gas 
below 500 feet 
530 
545 
22 
Hard clay or soft rock 
557 
23 
Hard rock _. . 
565 
24 
25 
26 
Streaks of clay and rock . _ ; 
Very hard rock, with some oil - . 
Clay .... 
643 
645 
672 
27 
Sand rock, with oil . _ ._ 
680 
28 
Blue clay, with bowlders 
781 
29 
Lime rock 
784 
30 
Blue clay _ . 
791 
