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frequent, and the discharge of petroleum is about a barrel a week.” 
During the oil excitement from 1860 to 1865, the history of this well was 
often quoted in proof of the great value of this district as oil territory. 
No good wells have as yet been obtained in the neighborhood. 
At South Olive is a small salt furnace, where a small quantity of salt 
is made from brine obtained from a well three hundred and twenty feet 
deep. A sample of the brine was obtained and taken to Columbus for 
analysis, but before the analysis could be made the brine had been 
changed by evaporation and other causes so as to make any exact deter- 
mination ofthe original impossible. An analysis of the salt from the 
Olive works will be found in another part of the report, with other sim- 
ilar analyses. 
NOBLE TOWNSHIP. 
This township lies east of Brookfield and north of Olive. It is drained 
by the head-waters of the West Fork of Duck Creek. The fossiliferous 
limestone, with a thin coal below it, seen in the neighborhood of Cald- 
well, can be traced along the valley through this township. Near Mr. 
Jennings’s store the following section was taken: 
iM, DAY, 
le celllowaclayishalest.... 2.5)... soo bdo udoaseup annua doasodeaccs Aly). /) 
2. Dark blue clay Bnale. Hh octales alt IFODIOLE Hanaeectese tea c ween 
Se Danksbluelscan dy MOssilaterOus MIMeStONC MH ..1..-.esccsccsseossecrcess scccseesen: 4 0 
AME Olleuteremcae ravenna at sluts saute sive lsssleterctolsesiver iaitewtes oacucs sels Saseee Sve aveics ete iO 
Ma DeMiN OLAnRATNCNIC Aves all Crceccccccasieccosncsslersieccctoonesecsssclecserelonvecs sine n= tjsence 15 0 
In the hills west a fossiliferous limestone was seen, which, by barom- 
eter, is about ninety feet above the coal in the above section. As the 
Cumberland seam of coal is something more than three hundred feet 
above the lower limestone, there are probably few hills in the township 
high enough to contain the coal. There may, however, be some; but no 
search was made for them. The lower coal is in some places thicker 
than at Mr. Jennings’s, and it has been mined a little for local use. On 
a branch of Duck Creek, in the western part of the township, there is a 
local thickening of the seam, reaching, as reported, from four to five feet. 
Near the Hiramsburg Station, on the land of Mr. Gorby, we find the same 
fossiliferous limestone seen further south, with a thin coal above it, and 
some earthy iron ore. The section taken in a cut of the ead just 
above the station, is as follows: 
Ft. In. 
1. Shales (not measured). 
2. Earthy siderite ore, fossiliferous, from 6 inches to 8 feet. 
DC lava Shale wlOssulmeEOUsen estore te cadence Sere vaululenuaenoe nae wold 0 6 
ds!) COLOR Sh ads tice casacosce Hae dy ob otce Se Np gee EE aE eee ALAR AS OMA An Na 1 40 
nC laygandisivall eyo awe ll see mime lnsey ul) Uk Mian Cole uednuunts oi kih enue Uk. 10 0 
6. Limestone, fossiliferous and ferruginous...........0.. Mr frasetast a cerasices ATEN NG 
(Map XII., No. 26.) 
