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STATE GEOLOGIST. 28 
From that time until 1887 the field was quiet. In the latter year three 
wells were drilled in the vicinity of Williamsport. One of these was located 
on the W. H. Crawford farm in the northwest corner of St. Clair town- 
ship. In this the Berea was found at a depth of 650 feet and produced 
a small quantity of gas. Work continued until a depth of 1,600 was 
attained, but neither oil nor gas was secured. The second well, drilled 
on the Alum Cliff farm, attained a depth of 930 feet, and made a little 
oil and considerable gas. The latter supplied two residences during the 
ensuing 12 years. The third well was drilled on land of James Robinson, 
in Madison township, and the Berea yielding’ nothing more than a small 
quantity of gas, the drill was kept at work until a depth approximating 
3,000 feet was reached. About 250 feet below the Berea a stratum of soft 
sandstone three and one-half feet in thickness was found, but it yielded 
nothing, and the well was of no service beyond showing that when once the 
Berea sand has been passed all hope of securing oil or gas must be aban- 
doned in this part of the state. 
No further work was done in the territory until 1897, when a well was 
drilled on the old Conkle farm, now owned by John Davis. It made a show 
only of oil. A well was drilled in the same year on the Alum Cliff farm, 
the result being a gas pressure of 170 pounds per square inch. Later it 
began yielding a small flow of oil and in 1901 was still producing. Other 
wells were drilled in the same territory that year and further testing has 
been done from time to time until the fall of 1900. During the three years 
preceding the latter date 22 wells had been drilled in the field. In August, 
1901, there were 5 producing oil wells, the largest making 3 barrels only 
per day. The oil has a gravity of 33 deg. B., and is used as a lubricator. 
When the gas production was at its height the Alum Cliff Gas Company 
piped the product to East Liverpool. The output of the wells, however, 
speedily declined, and in 1900 the line was removed. In the summer of 
Igor the wells supplied 11 families, but the yield more than met this 
demand. 
The Berea sand has a thickness of 70 feet in this territory. The 
gas is usually found at a depth of about 50 feet and the oil near the base 
of the formation. The sand is fine and hard except where the oil is pres- 
ent. But little salt-water is found in it. 
Outside of this field a number of deep wells have been drilled in 
Madison township: On the J. Crawford farm in the southeast corner 
of section 11 two Berea wells have been drilled; of these one was dry and 
the other made a little oil; on the neighboring farm owned by S. McGurdy 
a well was drilled within the past two years; a well is reported to have 
been drilled at the village of West Point many years ago, and to have pro- 
duced a small amount of heavy oil which the farmers used as a lubricator ; 
a few years ago a well was drilled on the farm of J. McCready in section 
32, but made nothing more than a small showing of gas. 
