230 RECORD OF DEEP-WELL DRILLING FOR 1905. 
Record of well one-half mile north of Bonner Springs. 
Iola to Pleasant on: Feet. 
Limestone and shales 0- 203 
Pleasanton: 
Shales . 203- 365 
Pleasanton to Fort Scott and Cherokee: 
Limestone and shales 365- 464 
Cherokee : 
Shales; gas at 391 and 559 feet 464- 767 
Winslow and Morrow ( ?) : 
Sand; full of salt water 767- 863 
Hard dark limestone 865- 894 
Mississippian : 
Light-colored limestone containing flint 894-1, 05Q 
Gray and brown limestone containing flint 1, 056-1, 193 
Dark-brown gritty limestone 1 , 193-1 , 273 
Light-blue shale, with 2 feet of very hard limestone at the base 1, 273-1, 296 
Brown crystalline limestone 1, 296-1 , 337 
Blue slaty shale 1, 337-1, 341 
Purple and white limestone, soft at bottom 1 , 341-1 , 391 ! j 
Limestone, reddish and flinty at top, gray and soft at bottom 1 , 391-1, 449 • 
Devonian (?): 
Gray and bluish to dark fossiliferous limestone 1, 449-1, 524 if 
Sandstone, clear white at top, darker and reddish at the bottom; salt, 
sulphur water at 1 ,525 feet 1 , 524-1, 569 
Silurian ( ?) : 
Limestone with partings of grayish shale 1, 569-1 , 744 
Gray and dark limestone with porous layers and seams of shale 1, 744-1 , 907 ', 
Ordovician: 
Variously tinted limestone, some parts porous, others very close grained. . 1, 907-2, 150 ' 
Casing used, 400 feet of 8|-mch, 900 feet of 6|-inch, 1,350 feet of 4£-mch. Elevation 
of well mouth about 800 feet. 
KENTUCKY. 
626. Well at Nebo, Hopkins County. 
[Well completed October 19, 1905. Authority, E. F. Doudna, contractor.] 
This log shows the various strata overlying the No. 12 coal in Hopkins County, in the 
western coal field of Kentucky. The rocks are all of Carboniferous age and belong to 
the Coal Measures or Pennsylvanian series. 
Record of well at Nebo. 
Feet. 
Clay - U 
Shale. 15-68 
Coal 68 - 6£ 
Shale 69-91 
Limestone and shale 95 9£ 
Coal 99 -106«j 
Limestone and shale 100 — 1(X 
Shale 106 -ll 
Soft gray sandstone 109 -12" 
Shale 121 -ll 
Coal 186 -18' 
Fire clay 189 19. 
