df:tailed records. 289 
1800. Well 16 miles northwest of Walla Walla, Wallawalla County. 
Well begun October 19, 1905; completed November 27, 1905. Authority, W. S. McCausland, contractor 
and driller. Samples preserved.] 
This well is typical of some that obtain water from porous strata or from crevices in the 
ava beds of Miocene age that underlie a great area in central and southern Washington. 
Record of well in the SE. | sec. 2, T. 8, R. 3£. 
Feet. 
frown soil and sand 0- 35 
Jedium-coarse quartz sand and bits of igneous rock 35- 40 
lard black rock 40-140 
lard dark igneous rock; may be basalt 140-156 
lard dark rock, much like preceding 156-166 
lard dark massive igneous rock 166-335 
>ofter dark igneous rock, fine grained or glassy . 335-350 
Driller's log says: "Hard lava rock, 40 to 340 feet; softer lava rock, 340 to 350 feet." 
Rig used, cable. Casing used, 40 feet of 5|-inch. "A small seep of water was found 
t 60 feet and perhaps others below, but all were insufficient. At 340 feet the water rose 
feet; pumping 10 gallons per minute lowered it 10 feet." 
WEST VIRGINIA. 
1801. Well near Culloden, Cabell County. 
Well begun in May, 1905; completed in July, 1905, Authority, J. G. Weiler, of Weiler Brothers, con- 
tractors. Samples preserved. Geologic correlations by R. W. Stone.] 
This well, in the gas and oil field east of Milton, apparently starts a little below the Pitts- 
urg coal. It passes through the Conemaugh, Allegheny, and Pottsville formations (Penn- 
ylvanian), and the Mauch Chunk, ending below the bottom of the Pocono (Mississippian). 
he coal seams penetrated are identified provisionally. 
Record of well in Grant Township, 2 miles south of Culloden. 
Feet. 
oil and subsoil - 22 
onemaugh : 
Light-gray limy shale 22 - 45 
Light-gray limy shale and dark-gray sandy shale 45 - 65 
Gray limy sandstone; fresh water 65 - 100 
Gray shale 100 - 110 
Red rock (brownish limy shale) 110 - 135 
Light-gray limy shale and greenish-gray sandy shale 135 - 155 
Gray sandstone. 155 - 160 
Red and white shale 160 - 171 
Greenish-gray shale, more or less gritty 171 - 250 
Gray shale 250 - 280 
Gray limy sandstone 280 - 305 
Gray limy sandstone and a layer of dark-gray sandy shale 305 - 335 
Gray and reddish limy sandstone 335 - 340 
Dark shaly sandstone 340 - 345 
Gray sandstone and sandy shale 345 - 365 
Gray limy sandstone; salt water, 40 gallons per hour 365 - 405 
Gray sandstone, "sand broken and slaty 445 to 447 feet" 405 - 467 
Gray sandstone and black shale 467 - 473 
Gray and dark-gray to black sandy shale 473 - 479 
Bull. 298—06 19 
