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or 586 feet below tide level, being entirely free from the desired fuel and 
from oil also. So conclusive did the results seem that the well was not 
shot, which, as later developments proved, was a great mistake. 
About two years later the search was renewed; this time with better 
results, though not so far as natural gas was coneerned. Ojul was found in 
paying quantities, and of course the drill was kept at work, the result being 
that what had at first been condemned as worthless territory proved to be 
rich in oil. Not only was the rock quite free from barren streaks, but 
several large wells were secured. 
Madison Township.—This township, lying south of Woodville, has 
oil wells in every section excepting 15, 28 and 35, but in several others the 
areas are very small. The barren strip to which reference has already 
been made extends entirely across the township from north to south. 
In 1887 a well was drilled at Gibsonburg for natural gas. The 
Trenton was struck at 1,237 feet, but flowed oil, the rate reported having 
- been 50 barrels per day. ‘This is said to have been the first oil well drilled 
in Sandusky county. Encouraged by this result another well was begun, 
the location being 2,000 feet west of the first one. This flowed gas, the 
rock pressure having been about 300 pounds per square inch. Other wells 
were completed with similar results, and the town was soon supplied with 
fuel.- The flow of gas has been continuous, but is no longer adequate to 
meet demands (1902). The first well drilled in this locality exclusively 
for oil was in 1888. After having been shot with 80 quarts of nitro-glyc- 
erine, it began producing at the rate of 200 barrels per day. Progress 
has been uninterrupted since that early day, and consequently the territory 
is now well drilled. 
Scott Township.—The oil territory of Madison township extends. south 
into Scott, where all sections are productive, in whole or in part, except 
2, I1, 12, 13, 14 and 24. From this township the production extends west 
into Wood and south into Seneca counties. | 
Development was contemporaneous with the township north, real 
progress beginning about 1890. Since that time the tools have been kept 
at work, the result being that little remains to be done. 
Washington Township.—The territory in Woodville and Madison 
townships extends east into Washington, occupying in whole or in part 
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of this three smaller pools are found; one lies at the junction of sections 
23, 24, 25 and 26, the wells being about equally divided in production 
between gas and oil. About one-half mile north of this pool a gas well 
has been secured; the original rock pressure exceeded 400 pounds, the gas 
being used in carbon works at Fremont. In the southern part of the town- 
ship a small pool of oil has been found occupying a fractional part of sec- 
tions 34 and 35; it extends across the line into sections 2 and 3 of Jackson 
