208 ANNUAL REPORT 
BETHEL TOWNSHIP. 
There are two small pools in this township: 
to Wine Clibie 3 - 
2. The Sycamore. 
The Clift Pool,—This pool was discovered early in 1900, the pioneer 
well having been drilled on the Clift farm. This well is reported to have 
started producing 85 barrels from a sand lying in the “Big lime.” The 
latter is not the homogenous formation in this field that it is farther east 
and south, but, according to reports of drillers, is divided near the middle 
by a heavy stratum of sand, and it is this which yielded the oil of the well 
referred to, and that of other wells in the vicinity. However, there are 
several wells in the Big Injun and occasionally a little oil is derived from 
the Keener. The number of producing wells in the pool is less than 20. 
The general succession of formations is as follows: 
G. W. Martin farm, well No. 1: 
Feet. 
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PBEM Ce Fa Gor cr eGaee hens enero oe Oh ey ON ee een 1,033 
Sandiin Bis Time 2a ee ee ae ee eee Urata 1,066 
BottomVorlatterndaty co Bosal oe ee ee 1,100 
MOPLOLME TS) Ly UTE Base iste Syanecsaes eevee eels weber useeme Are 1,185 
BET EAL, SAM Circ BUG ichsiseeie.g Gee eiek pee IA tee NC een 1,810 
The Sycamore Pool,—The Sycamore pool, as developed in August, 
1902, formed a narrow strip about two miles long. The number of wells 
completed was about 20, but ten strings of tools were at work and the 
number of wells is now doubtless larger. 
According to William Longfellow, an experienced driller, the oil is 
obtained from the Keener sand. The “Big lime” ranges in thickness from 
60 to 80 feet. Some salt-water is found in the Maxton sand, but very little 
in the Keener. The casing extends to the “Big lime.” 
Other Wells in the Township.—In the northern half of sec- 
tion 35 two gas wells have been drilled on the Wineland farm, 
one dry hole and one small oil well on the Bode farm, and an oil 
well on the lot just south of the Wineland place; a dry hole on the 
Lindmood farm in the southeast quarter of section 5, and a show of oil 
in a well on the Bode farm in the northeast quarter of the same section; a 
small oil well on the Anderson farm in the northwest quarter of section 28, 
and a dry hole near the center of the same section on the C. D. Hartshorn 
place; a dry hole on the Unger farm in the northwest quarter of section 
3, and one on the W. M. Martin farm in the southwest quarter of the 
same section; a small well on the Smithberger farm in the northwest 
quarter of section 26; a dry hole on the Park’s farm in the northeast 
quarter of section 2; a dry hole on the Simmons farm in the southeast 
