GUTKWoi.n J STRUCTURAL WORK IN EASTERN OHIO OIL FIELDS. 341 
level lines carried to the mouth of each new well of which a record 
could be obtained. 
Piney Fork district. — In Bulletin No. 198 this locality is described 
as follows: 
To the west of Smithfield, on and near the Piney Fork of Short Creek, four test 
wells have heen drilled. Well No. 182, on the farm of Alexander S. Thompson, 
gave a fair show of oil. This well is shown on the map to be on a small terrace. 
The other wells, Nos. 181, 183, and 240, were simply dry holes. 
During- the last year the Sutherland Oil Company, of Chicago, 
drilled two test wells in the Piney Fork district. The first well is on 
the Finley farm in the middle of sec. 22, T. 8 N., R. 3 W., on the east 
side of a small stream flowing into Piney Fork and just south of the 
Updegraff-Smith field road. The map of the sand shows that the 
Berea grit is 505 feet below sea level and that the well is located at 
the foot of a rather steep slope. This latter condition would indicate 
the probability of a salt-water area. The elevation of the mouth of 
well is'984 feet above sea level, making, according to the map, a dis- 
tance of 1,489 feet from well mouth to the Berea grit. The Berea grit 
was actually found at a depth of 1,487 feet, and the well produced 
salt water which rose 1,000 feet in the casing. The second test in this 
locality by the same company was made on the Thompson farm, on 
the east side of the creek and very near the northeast corner of sec. 
29. The map shows the sand at this point to be 445 feet below sea 
level, and the well seems to be on the terrace previously referred to. 
The elevation of the mouth of the well is 1,012 feet above sea level; 
therefore theoretically the distance from surface to the sand should be 
1,457 feet. The sand was found at 1,469 feet, showing the map to be 
in error 12 feet at this point. A showing of oil is reported from the 
Berea grit, with a strong flow of gas and some oil from the Big Injun. 
No further tests have been made in this locality. 
In Bulletin No. 198 the following suggestions were made as to the 
northern extension of producing territory along the main anticline: 
North and northeast of the Snyder pool six wells have been sunk in the attempt 
to find other pools "by an extension of the alignment of the Bricker and Snyder 
pools, with uniformly unfavorable results. With the information shown on the 
contour map these results might have been anticipated. It is here that the cross 
anticline hreaks up the regular structure, and the terrace face is moved over to 
the east of the town of Hopedale, where it again takes up its northeasterly direc- 
tion and is, in fact, the extension of the Bricker and Snyder pool terrace. Two 
test wells have heen drilled in the southeast end of this terrace. The first well. 
No. 203, found a show of oil, and this led to the drilling of the second well, No. 
204, with the intention of striking the sand fully 10 feet higher than in the first 
well. This the drillers failed to do, finding the sand only 2 feet higher in the 
second well than in the first. This slightly increased elevation caused an increase 
in the amount of oil found. The well was put to pumping, resulting in from 1£ 
to 2 barrels a day. 
Spellacy pool. — During the last summer Mr. Spellacy and partners 
drilled a test well on the line between sees. 14 and 15, T. 10 N., R. 4 W., 
