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STATE GEOLOGIST. 181 
least 50 feet. Following the territory eastward into Newport township 
little change is noted. The productive area there is very narrow, not 
being more than one-eighth of a mile. The altitude is greater, and ac- 
cordingly the wells deeper. Occasionally a producer is found in a sand 
other than the First Cow Run. Thus on the Close farm in the northwest 
corner of section 27, one well is in a shallower sand, and on the Conger 
farm in the same vicinity 2 additional shallow wells are found. The latter 
lie only about 90 feet above the Cow Run, and so cannot be classed with 
the Mitchell sand. The wells in this part of the Sand Hill pool are all 
small, and cannot be depended on for more than from 2 to 4 barrels per 
day, a few weeks after having been completed. 
A number of wells have been sunk in the valley of the Ohio between 
the mouth of the Little Muskingum and the eastern boundary of Marietta 
township, but no important producers have been secured. 
THE OIL POOLS IN NEWPORT TOWNSHIP. 
This township lies east of Marietta and is bounded on the south 
by the Ohio river. It is an important producer of oil, having had over 
300 wells in operation in 1900. There are 3 pools, and besides these a 
number of scattering wells along the Ohio river: 
1. The Newell’s Run Pool. 
2. The Bosworth Pool. 
3. The Sand Hill Pool. (See Marietta township.) 
The Newell’s Run Pool.—This is the most important one in the 
township, containing more than 175 producing wells. It is named from 
the West Fork of Newell’s run which traverses the principal part of the 
territory. The productive area includes the whole or parts of sections 
10, If, 12, 18, 24 and 30 of Newport township, and 13 of Lawrence; the 
last section practically uniting the field with Cow Run, but for convenience 
the two are considered separately. The principal part of the field has a 
length of 4 miles, and extends west of north. It crosses Eight Mile run 
near Gracey P. O., along which a narrow strip extends west of south for 
a distance of 3 miles. The maximum width of the field is one mile, but 
throughout the larger part does not exceed one-half mile. 
The first producing oil well in this pool was drilled on the land of 
_ John Berg along Eight Mile run in the spring of 1890. About one month 
after this well had been begun, the Boston Oil Company started a well at 
' Gracey P. O. in the southwest corner of section 13, Lawrence township. 
It was decided to make this a test well, the objective point being the 
Berea. Progress was slow; the tools became fast several times; once the 
tig caught fire and was destroyed; other difficulties incidental to deep 
wells, prolonged the work, so that the well was not completed until the 
following November. The First Cow Run sand was reported at 585 
feet, and from it there was a flow of oil. The Berea was struck at a depth 
