90 EECORD OF DEEP WELL DRILLING FOR 1904. [bull. 264. 
Feet. 
Hard gray limestone 490-510 
Soft dark-red shale; showing of oil 510-530 
Hard gray limestone 530-565 
1 lard gray limestone and shale; bad caves 565-600 
Soft black shale; a little oil 600-620 
Soft brown limestone, Trenton; a little oil 620-650 
" From 490 to 600 feet is probably Kinderhook, from 600 to 620 feet is probably 
Devonian Ohio shale." — E. 0. Ulrich. 
Well yields a small amount of gas. 
141. Well i-> miles n<>rtht<txt of Pleasantville, Atlantic County, N. J. 
[Begun January '-'7, 1903, completed January 31, 1903. Authority, E. E. Lanpher, assistant civil 
engineer, Atlantic City water department.] 
Elevation of month of well, 10 feet A. T. Feet. 
Yellow sand and gravel. 0- 18 
< i ravel mixed with clay 18- 23 
Sofl blueclay 23- 29 
Yellow sand and wood 29- 35 
White sand; water-bearing 35- 55 
Yellow sand and gravel; water-bearing 55-100 
1 lard light-gray clay and gravel 100-120 
Soft gray sand and clay 120-138 
bed and white sand; water flowed over casing 2 feet above ground 138 L'58 
Coarse and fine gray sand 158-230 
Sofl gray sand and clay „, 230-240 
< !oarse gray sand 240-250 
Soft greenish-gray marl and sand, growing harder toward bottom of bed... 250-310 
Hani gray clay 310 320 
Well discontinued at 320 feet in a rather soft gray sandy clay, and casing with- 
drawn. Rig used, jet. This was a 4$-inch test well at the Absecon Pumping Station 
of the water department of Atlantic City. The location is the same as that of the 
Tinted States Meteorological Station, Pleasantville, X. .1. The well was never 
pumped. Within one-fourth mile of this test w r ell are eleven LO-inch and one 
4.1-inch wells, yielding about 4,000,000 gallons a day ami sunk to about —95 eleva- 
tion, and one lS-inch well yielding about 700,000 gallons a day, sunk to about 190 
elevation. All these wells belong to the water department of Atlantic City and are 
pumped by compressed air. 
157. Well <>nt -hnlf niih west of Atlantic Highlands, Monmouth County, X. .1. 
[Begun October 1, 1904, completed November 1, 1904. Authority, V. E. Price, superintendent, Atlan- 
tic Highlands Waterworks.] 
Feet. 
Red sand and clay 0- 8 
Bluish sand and marl 8- lt> 
< bay sand 16- 30 
Yellowish sand and wood 30- 40 
Light-gray sand; wood between 137 and 157 feet 40-157 
Marl (dark gray) 157-244 
Marl (fine gray micaceous sand) 244 272 
1 ►ark-gray sand 272 292 
Marl ( dark gray ) 292 346 
