136 OIL FIELDS OF TEXAS-LOUISIANA COASTAL PLAIN, [bull. 212. 
The Sharp well, drilled on the edge of the marshy lands bordering 
the Sabine River, abont 4 miles north of these wells at Vinton, was 
also abandoned in gravel at a depth of nearly 500 feet. 
SPRING HILL. 
A well drilled for the Spring Hill Oil Company in the NE. i of SW. 
£ sec. 12, T. G, R. 4, to a depth of 1,200 feet, found a small quantity 
of oil in a sand, which may possibly prove a fairly good pumping well. 
This oil has been cased off and the well is now being drilled deeper. 
WELSH. 
The Welsh Oil and Development Company has drilled two wells 
in sec. 28, T. 9 S., R. 5 W. In the first well petroleum was found at 
1,050 feet, but not in large quantities. The well was deepened to 
1,500 feet without finding any more oil, and in bringing back the 
casing to try to develop the 1,050-foot oil sand the well caved in and 
was lost. In well No. 2 at the date of visit the drill had reached a 
depth of 700 feet. 
LAKE CHARLES. 
Considerable drilling has been carried on in the neighborhood of 
Lake Charles, but so far without commercial success. The Watkini 
well No. 1, of the Gulf Oil and Mineral Compaity, near the center of 
sec. 1G, T. 10 S., R. 8 W., has been drilled to a depth of 2,400 feet 
without finding petroleum, 
following section: 
A condensed log of this well shows the 
Log of Watkins well No. 1, at Lake Charles, La. 
[Elevation, 22 feet.] 
Character of strata. 
Sand and clay 
Sand and gravel 
Clay and sand 
Sand and gravel 
Sand 
Sand and gravel 
Clay 
Sand, clay, and shale 
Thickness. 
From. — 
Feet. 
Feet. 
400 

44 
400 
106 
444 
40 
550 
10 
590 
8 
000 
42 
608 
1,750 
650 
To— 
Feet. 
400 
444 
550 
590 
600 
608 
650 
2,400 
In the same region the Texas, Louisiana and National Company is 
drilling at Hoo-Hoo Park, in sec. 13, T. 9 S., R. 8W. This well has 
reached a depth of 951 feet. 
