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ing the limits of the productive pools. It may be well to remark here that 
the southeastern corner of the Jewett pool lies in section 28 of this town- 
ship. | 
THE MAXWELL POOL. 
This lies in Short Creek township, and is confined almost wholly to 
the southwest quarter of section 21. In July, 1901, the number of produc- 
ing wells was less than a dozen, and from the dry holes which almost sur- 
round the pool, it appears that the productive belt cannot be materially ex- 
tended. The pool was opened in the fall of 1899, the first well starting at 
5 barrels. Work has been in progress since that time, and doubtless sev- 
eral wells will yet be drilled. The largest producer started at 20 barrels 
per day. ; 
The oil is found in the Berea below the cap-rock, as is the case in the 
Bricker and Snyder pools. The oil has a gravity of 42% degrees B., and 
a light amber color. Its characteristics are similar to those of the Cadiz 
pool, from which it is a half mile only distant. The gas present was suf- 
ficient to cause several of the wells to flow when first drilled, but all soon 
had to be pumped. 
Other Wells in Short Creek Township.—Two dry holes have been 
drilled on the Giffin farm in the northeast quarter of section 26; a dry hole 
on the Yost farm in the southwest corner of section 5; a dry hole on the 
Shields farm in the northwest quarter of section 1; a well making much 
brine, but nothing else on the Hogan farm in the southeast corner of sec- 
tion 2; a dry hole on the Branson farm adjacent to the village Georgetown ; 
a dry hole on the J. F. Hanna farm in the northwest quarter of section 13; 
a dry hole on the Stephens farm in the southeast corner of section 15; a 
dry hole on the J. N. Hanna farm in the southeast corner of section 24. 
THE JEWETT POOL. 
This is situated in the townships Archer, Green and Rumley. The 
principal part of the producing territory lies in section 34 and the ‘southern 
half of section 35 of Archer township. Beyond this it extends into the 
southwest quarter of section 28 of Green and northward into section 35 
of Rumley. The pool is well enclosed by dry holes on all sides except the 
south, and hence there is little prospect of extending the producing terri- 
tory except in the one direction. 
The pool was opened in the fall of 1895, the well having been drilled 
on land of A. M. Busby in the southern half of section 35 of Archer town- 
ship. The well produced gas which was piped later to Jewett, and was 
not abandoned until the fall of 1899. A short time later another well was 
drilled on the same farm, and this also produced gas. Thus far the work 
had been done by the Jewett Oil and Gas Company, a local organization ; 
but in the spring of 1896 this company transferred a large strip of territory 
