294 RECORD OF DEEP- WELL DRILLING FOR 1905. 
Pottsville: Feet. 
Hard light-gray, dark-gray, and white sandstone — traces of salt water at 
510-530 feet: 4 barrels salt water in twenty-four hours at 550-570 
feet : show of oil and more water at 590-600 feet ; hole filled with water 
250 feet in thirty minutes at 610 feet: hole tilled full at 620 feet : coal 
break at 620 feet : shale break too thin to measure at 660 feet: slate 
break about 2 feet thick at 812 feet : slate too thin to measure at 880 
feet : bottom of Salt sand at 935 feet 465- 935 
Greenbrier limestone: 
Hard black shale and lime-tone: -late break between Salt -and and 
Mountain lime 935- 942 
Hard black limestone ; Big or Mountain lime 942- 960 
Hard gray limestone with thin slate, too thin to record 960- 978 
Hard gray limestone: slate break at 980 feet 978- 984 
Hard white limestone: small showing of gas at 1.0S4-1.094 feet., would 
burn up 5 feel out of 6§-inch hole, estimated at 100.000 cubic feet in 
twenty-four hours 984-1 , 144 
Hard dark gray lime-tone: showing of oil at 1,1,50-1,162 feet 1, 144-1. 172 
Rig used, -uandard. Diameter of well, 13 inches from to 132 feet; 10 inches from 132 
to 405 feet ; 8| inches from 405 to 942 feet : 6| inches from 942 to 1.172 feet. Casing used, 
132 feet of 10-inch: 405 feet of 8|-mch; 942 feet of 6f-inch. 
1815. Well at Far, Wetzel County. 
[Well begun April 10, 1905; completed June 5,1905. Authority. T. L. Dunlap, driller. No samples. 
igic correlations by R. W. stone.] 
This well started in the Washington formation (Permian) and went down through the 
Monongahela, Conemaugh, Allegheny, and Pottsville formations (Pennsylvanian), and 
Mauch Chunk and Pocono (Mississippian) of the Carboniferous system into the sands and 
slates of the Upper Devonian, the so-called Catskill formation. The coal at 275 feet is 
the Washington, which lies from 435 to 510 feet above the Pittsburg, according to well 
records published by the West Virginia Survey. 
Well X". 1 on Windham farm, 1 mile south of Far. 
Washington: Feet 
Soft white slate 0- 50 
Hard white lime 50- 120 
Soft white slate 120- 162 
Hard white lime : 162- 2.50 
Soft white slate 250- 275 
Coal (Washington) 27.5- 280 
Hard white lime 280- .500 
Monongahela : 
White slate .500- 640 
Mapletown (or Sewickley) coal 640- 646 
Hard wdiite lime 646- 700 
Soft black slate 700- 715 
Pittsburg coal. 71.5- 720 
Conemaugh : 
Hard black lime 720-1., 050 
Soft red rock 1 , 050-1, 100 
Soft sand, Little Dunkard 1 , 100-1, 150 
Soft black slate 1 , 150-1, 185 
Big Dunkard. 1 , 185-1, 235 
Soft white sand, gas sand 1 , 235-1, 260 
