276 ANNUAL REPORT 
Washington Township.—About 1891-2 a well was drilled in the north- 
east corner of this township near the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The 
Berea grit is reported to have been struck at about goo feet, but was dry. 
VINTON COUNTY. 
The surface geology in this county is similar to that in Jackson., Along 
the western margin the Waverly constitutes the surface formation, but else- 
where the coal measures are found. Drilling has been done at times dur- 
ing the past 35 years; at first the Berea was the stratum sought, but when 
this did not yield satisfactory results deeper holes were drilled. During 
the past_ten years about a dozen tests have been made in the Clinton, the 
details of which are given under the several townships. Nearly all the 
deeper wells are found on the western side of the county. 
Vinton Township.—The first deep well in the county was located on 
the John Calvin farm in section 4 of this township. It was drilled in 1867, 
and struck a heavy flow of gas at 490 feet. The well head is reported to 
have been near the Ferriferous limestone, and consequently the gas sand 
could not have been the Berea grit. Probably it belonged in the Logan 
group. The gas when ignited produced a flame from 75 to 200 feet high, 
and as late as 1870 showed little or no diminution. About ten years after 
the well had been drilled, during all of which time gas had been wasting, 
it was cleaned with the idea of using the gas in the manufacture of lamp- 
black. However the time had passed for such a supply, and the well soon 
ceased flowing entirely. 
In 1895 H. C. Chapman drilled a well cya 600 yards north of the 
pioneer one. The well-head was at about the horizon of the Ferriferous 
limestone, and the Berea grit was found at 1,015 feet. Both gas and salt 
water were found in the Big Injun, and the same is true of the Berea. The 
depth of the well was 1,055 feet, work having stopped when the drill 
had penetrated a few feet of the shales underlying the Berea. 
Below is a log of this well, furnished the Survey by J. M. McGillivray, 
Esq., of McArthur: 
Depth to 
Thickness of bottom of 
formation. formation. 
Feet. Feet. 
i Broyles tens men ete Deke rene gtr ema Ae oe ST 25 25 
Sami eGo as ee awards total incete honoree tense revenoreucbonenete 35 60° 
(Oh oYe Besos Man Mae rat ah San ees ee ORO NCS CH GILG CCD! OL OA CHO 3 63 
ls haael=| Rov tl Pet eis OIG Ger GO Go.6 Cho COC GU OOO 8 Cal 
Blackeshalesiccstaeucten evaiee tacdeieraeetesncaoreys 20 OL 
SANAStON Cis scree reece onetok cust eustiarer al one teleweyrstens 27 118 
Slate ee ee ee ae econo eat ofenet sHatetaicucter ofioke 45 163 
Sam dston Gy eres Gey eter ace ere icteric ieeranerey aioe 6 169 
ONE INGE a oto OOo OOOO DEON OGOO OU DUC OUo Of 2 ie 
Slate ced ies Eee Eee eae ee eee cr airaben som ewenats 63 234 
1 Geol. Sur. of Ohio, Vol. VI., p. 894; also Report of Progress (1870), p. 118. 
