248 RECORD OF DEEP-WELL DRILLING FOR 1905. 
Onondaga, Helderberg, and Niagara: Feet. 
Hard gray and white limestone 1 , 504-1 , 565 
Hard gray and brownish limestone — little more salt water at 1,585 feet, 
about five-sixths gallon per minute . 1, 565-1, 660 
Hard brown limestone 1, 660-1 , 760 
Hard brown and gray limestone 1 , 760-1 , 800 
Hard dark-gray limestone 1, 800-1 , 810 
Hard gray and brown limestone 1, 810-1, 885 
Hard brown limestone 1 , 885-1 , 925 
Hard brownish, grayish, and brownish limestone; at 1,950 feet hole 
filled with salt water to within 600 feet of surface 1, 92,5-2, 065 
Hard dove-colored limestone 2, 065-2, 105 
Hard brownish and gray limestone 2, 105-2, 165 
Clinton: 
Soft brownish-gray limy shale 2, 16,5-2, 240 
Soft gray limy shale 2, 240-2, 270 
Soft gray limestone and shale 2, 270-2, 280 
Soft light-brown limy shale 2, 280-2, 294 
Clinton sand (hard gritty light-gray limestone and dark-gray shale), 30 
feet thick 2, 294-2, ,324 
Diameter of well, 8 inches from to 700 feel ; 6$ inches from 700 to 2,135 feet. Length 
of casing, 2,135 feet. Gas found in Clinton sand; estimated yield, 1,250,000 cubic feet ic j 
twenty-four hours. 
1269. Well near Ava, Noble County. 
[Well completed September 21, 1904. Authority, Jacob Von Gunten, driller. No samples.] 
This test hole for coal was sunk on a hill about 3 miles west of Ava. The beds pene«| 
trated belong to the Monongahela formation and give an idea of the alternation of sand 1 
stone, shale, and limestone found in that portion of the Pennsylvanian series. The coa 
at 384^ feet may be the Meigs Creek seam, which is thought to be equivalent to the Sewiekkrr 
of Pennsylvania. 
Record of well No. 1 on Morris Danford's farm, Broolcfidd Township. 
Feet. 
Red clay - IS 
Red shale 18 -10C 
Gray shale 100 -m 
Limestone 113-11/ 
Gray shale 115 -12( 
Gray sandstone 126 -131 
Coal 133 -13- 
Fire clay 134 -13 
Gray shale 137 -15 
Gray sandstone 152 -20 ' 
Blue shale 209-22 
Coal 221 -221 
Fire clay - - 223 -22 j 
Gray shale 227 -2H 
Gray sandstone 294 -3( < 
Gray shale 307 -3' 
Gray sandstone 320 -3! 
Coal 384-3: 
Fireclay 3841-3 ( 
Rig used, diamond drill. 
