92 RECORD OF DEEP WELL DRILLING FOR 1904. [bull. 264. 
Foot. 
Soft brown shale 950-1, 040 
Soft black shale— harder last 15 feet .< 1, 040-1, 115 
Trenton limestone 1, 115-1, 158 
Twenty-five feet 8£-inch drive pipe. Diameter of well, G\ inches from 25 to 1,158 
feet. Length of casing, 310 feet to top of red Medina shale. After casing was 
seated and found tight, drillers made from 1 15 to 130 feet a tour, and no water was 
found until well was finished and shot with 100 quarts of glycerine. After the shut 
there was more salt water than could be pumped, so the well was plugged and easing 
pulled. Well was drilled for gas. Small amount obtained. 
224. Well No. 2 on Mrs. /,. Dienst farm, Ml'. \ SW. \ sec. 6, T. 4, R. 11 K {one-fourth 
mill' east of Portage) Wood County, Ohio. 
[Begun November l, completed November 19, 1904. Samples furnished by G. F. Munn, owner.'] 
Feet. 
Surface soil 0- 20 
( J ray Limestone 20- 200 
Blue shale 200- 220 
Gray limestone 220- 260 
Brownish limestone and pyrite 260- 280 
Blue shale 280- 340 
Dark red shale 840- 360 
Sample missing 360- .'ISO 
Blue shale 380- 7S0 
Black shale 780 92(3 
Brownish gray limestone 920- 940 
Reddishshale 940- 960 
Gray limestone 960-1,010 
Black shale; oil sand at 1,102 feet 1,040-1,120 
Brownish-gray limestone with pyrite at [,180 feet 1, 120-1, 262 
Diameter «.f well, s 1 , inches from to 300 feet, 1 , inches from 300 to 1,262 feet.' 
Length of casing, 300 feet. Well was shot with L20 quarts of glycerine. Amount of 
oil obtained, 5 harrels a day. < ias pressure, 50 pounds. 
243. Well No. 6 on the L. C. Grimm farm, l\ miles northeast of Higbee, Greeni 
County, Pa. 
[Begun June 6, completed August 15, 1904. Authority, J. J. Rood, drillor.] 
Foot. 
Pittsburg coal 920- 927 
Big Dunkar. I sand 1 , 422-1 ,517 
( ias sand •. 1 , 705-1 , 760 
Salt sand 1, 770-1 , 960 
Big lime _ 2, 026-2, 1 00 
Big Injun sand 2, 115-2, 341 
Thirty-foot sand 2, 745-2, 805 
Fifty-foot sand 2, 855-2, 910 
< i< .r« Ion sand 2, 969-2, 994 
Shale 2, 991 ::, 001 
K( uirt h sand 3, 005 -3, <>76 
Yield of oil: 10 barrels. 
