STATE GEOLOGIST. 921 
Some gas was found at a depth of 20 feet in the Salt sand, and much 
salt-water at 100 feet. Salt-water was found in the upper part of the Big 
Injun sand, and a show of oil near the middle of the formation. The 
Berea was dry. In no other well thus far drilled in Ohio has there been 
reported the well defined sand beds below the Berea that were found in 
this well. These strata, however, produced neither oil nor gas. A well 
drilled on the Hendershot farm in section 9 made a small show of oil in 
the Big Injun. The toal depth of this well was about 1,450 feet. Wells 
have been commenced, but owing to accidents have not been completed on 
the Vanduyne farm in section 4, the Bright farm in section 27 and the 
Workman farm in section 19. For the information concerning this town- 
ship the Survey is indebted to Hon. E. B. Armstrong. 
Yrok Township.—A well has been drilled on the Dorsey farm in sec- 
tion 27, and reached a depth of 2,200 feet. The sand was reported of fine 
quality. It made a showonly of oil, but contained much salt-water. Twodeep 
wells have been drilled in section 20, one on the Boyer farm reaching a 
depth of nearly 2,300 feet, and making a good showing of oil, and the 
other on the Dorsey and McMurray farm reaching a depth of 2,200 feet, 
but entirely dry. A dry well having a depth of 2,100 feet has been drilled 
on the Ramsay farm in section 8. On the Dorsey heirs farm in section 2 
a deep well has been drilled. The depth of this has not been learned. It 
is claimed to have made a good showing of oil. For the facts concerning 
this. township the Survey is indebted to A. A. Caldwell, of Captina. 
Wheeling Township,_In 1902 two wells were drilled near the village 
Uniontown, and each made a good showing of oil, and with it much 
salt-water. The Berea sand was found in one at a reported depth of 1,546 
feet and in the other at 1,610. The oil was of inferior quality, and the 
wells were abandoned.! 
GUERNSEY COUNTY. 
The exploration for oil and gas in this county has been long continued 
and extensive. As stated by Dr. Orton in Volume VI, the search about 
Cambridge was more than ordinarily interesting. This resulted from the 
presence at that place of the Cambridge anticline, and hence of the exist- 
ence of the rock structure regarded as very favorable for oil and gas 
accumulation. Drilling began about the time of the greatest excitement 
-at Findlay and adjacent towns favorably situated in the great Trenton 
limestone field, and has been continued from time to time to the present 
day. : 
A thorough test has been made of the anticline at Cambridge, and 
also north and south of this place. The results have been unfavorable. 
The Berea sand has been struck many times and found to have a thickness 
and texture suitable for oil and gas, but notwithstanding the favorable 
1Since the above was written a small pool of oil has been developed in this 
locality. 
