STATE GEOLOGIST. 241 
1,200 barrels capacity, and is shipped to Brice, West Virginia, through 
a 3 inch line, the power being furnished by an engine of approximately 
60 horse-power. . 
Like all other pools in the county the producing sand is the Berea. 
This has a thickness usually of 25 or more feet. The general relations of 
the sand are similar to those at Scio; at the top is the so-called “lime” 
having a thickness usually of from 6 to 10 feet; below this is the pay-rock 
having a thickness of from 6 to 14 feet. On the northwest side of the 
field gas is plentiful, but farther east and south the quantity is not sufficient 
to operate the wells. The highest pressure reported is 250 pounds per 
square inch. Salt-water is abundant on the southeast side of the field, it 
being estimated that at least 20 barrels are pumped to one of oil. The 
largest wells in the field started at 100 barrels per day, and those having 
an initial production of from 30 to 40 have not been uncommon. 
| The surface rocks lie principally in the Conemaugh formation or 
Lower Barren Measures, the Upper Freeport coal lying above drainage 
along the western margin of the field. The interval between this coal and 
the Berea sand is about 1,010 feet. 
Other Wells in Monroe Township.—On the A. Wyant farm in the 
eastern half of section 33 a dry hole was drilled in 1894 to a depth of 
3,950 feet. It was the intention to go to a depth of 4,400 feet, but the 
tools were lost and the well abandoned. The Berea was found at 1,085 
feet. Three other dry holes have been drilled on the same section, one 
on the Grumble and two on the B. Wyant farms; a dry hole on the Brown 
farm near the south line of section 3; two dry holes on the northwest 
corner of section 9; two dry holes in the north half of section 26 on the 
Heller farm; a dry hole on the southeast corner of section 14; a dry hole 
on the Birney farm near the middle of section 31; three holes in section 
I, one in the northeast quarter, one in the southeast quarter, both dry, 
and one making a showing of oil in the southwest quarter; on the south- 
east quarter of section 7 a well making a show of oil has been drilled on 
the Parker farm, and a second well was being drilled on the same 
farm in August, 1901; on the Long farm in the southeast quarter of 
section 13 a well making a showing of oil has been drilled, and another 
one was being drilled in the summer of 1901; on the Albaugh farm in the 
northeast quarter of section 30 a dry hole has been drilled; on the Betts 
farm in the southwest quarter of section 24, a dry hole has been drilled ; 
on the Spray farm near the dividing line of sections 29 and 35 a dry hole 
has been drilled. It is understood that in all these wells except the first 
one, the objective sand was the Berea, and doubtless this was found in 
nearly every case. 
16 S. G. 
