226 RECORD OF DEEP- WELL DRILLING FOR 1905. 
Feet. J 
Black shale. 1, 740-1, 800 1 
Flint -- - 1,800-1,816 I 
Slate 1, 816-1, 820 J 
Sand - 1, 820-1, 84C ij 
Slate...." 1, 840-1, 93C 
Rig used, standard. Casing used, 10-inch to 35 feet, 8|-inch to 630 feet, 6|-inch to 1,445 
feet, 4f-inch to 1,610 feet. 
Mr. Fogelstrom says: "This was the second well drilled for the Junction City Oil anc 
Mining Company. This was abandoned on account of being started too small. A ligh | 
flow of oil was struck near the bottom, but soon water was again struck and, being unabl 
to case it off, drilling was abandoned." 
498. Well near McPherson, McPherson Comity. 
[Well begun in 1904; drilling stopped in June, 1905. Authority, Jeff Tourney, of McPherson Prospectin ft 
Company, contractor. Samples preserved. Log compiled from samples by S. Sanford.] 
This well is in the northern portion of the Kansas salt field, and the samples give J 
good idea of the formations penetrated to its depth of 2,225 feet. But one deeper we •; 
has been put down in the salt fields. That one, having a depth of 2,335 feet, is at Anthoir 
about' 85 miles to the south. The deepest well in the State, at Caney, was down 2,6( 
feet on March 1, 1906. The McPherson well starts in a formation of earliest Quaternai 
age, the "Equus beds;" below 140 feet comes the Wellington, and below that the Marie 
formation (Permian). The well penetrates the highest limestones and shales of the Pen 
sylvanian series of the Carboniferous system. As these beds differ somewhat from tho 
exposed at the surface farther east, where they have been given formation names,] 
attempt is made to group the beds as formations or to separate the Permian from t 
Pennsylvanian. 
Record of in II .> miles west of McPherson. 
Feet 
Yellowish gravel and sand; water-bearing 20- 
Brownish-gray sandstone; water bearing . 80- 1 
Soft blue-gray limy shale 140- 2 
Soft red limy shale 234- S 
Soft blue-gray limy shale (hard white stratum at 320-324 feet) 239- i 
Gray limy shale, harder (rock salt at 390-391 feet) 390- f S 
Rock salt and soft gray shale (driller's log says "top of thick salt bed at 450 
feet ") 420 I 
Rock salt 470- ! 
Rock salt and gray shale (driller's log says "bottom of pure salt at 545 
feet") 530- \ 
Grayish gypsum 545- | 
Gray gypsum and gray limy shale 600- | 
Soft gray shale with white and grayish gypsum 660- ■ I 
White and grayish gypsum 685- 
White gypsum and gray gypsiferous and limy shale 695- 
Gray limy and gypsiferous shale (driller's log says "black shale at 720-800 
feet' ') 750- 
Gray limestone and gray shale 775- 
Gray limestone 800- 
Gray limestone and gray limy and gypsiferous shale (driller's log says "white 
limestone ") 855- 
Gray limestone and limy shale 905- 
Gray limestone, alternate strata of light and dark below 950 feet 915- 
Light brownish-gray limestone (driller's log says "salt water") 980-1 j > 
