306 ANNUAL REPORT 
The sand is the Berea, and is found in the valleys at about 260 fect. 
The maximum thickness reported is 110 feet. In the spring of 1901 the 
Buckeye Pipe Line Company laid a line connecting their tanks with the 
railroad, shipping the oil in tank cars; but when the Lodi refinery be- 
gan work in December of the same year, the Buckeye Company removed 
its line. 
The refinery to which reference has just been made has one still of 
about 250 barrels capacity. The company relies for its crude material on 
the wells around Lodi. There is no other supply near. During the sum- 
mer of 1902 it did not use the small production of this field, and in conse- 
quence the producers were asking the Buckeye Pipe Line Company to come 
again to their rescue. | 
A well having a reported depth of 1,670 feet is said to have been drill- 
ed in the vicinity of Lodi about the year 1888. According to the informa- 
tion received the Berea grit was struck at approximately 260 feet and the 
Corniferous limestine at 1,600: 
Just west of the Lodi field great depths of drift are reported. One 
well found 340 feet, the first formation struck having been the red Bedford 
shales. Such depths denote important drainage changes, the old valleys 
having been filled with drift during the glacial period. 
A number of tests have been made in other parts of the county for oil 
or gas. Three deep wells are said to have been drilled in the vicinity of 
Medina, but all failed to secure the coveted material. The Berea has been 
tested at a number of places in Lafayette and Montville townships, but 
without favorable results. In Litchfield township, near the Lorain county 
line, several small gas wells have been secured. The farmers occasionally 
secure a supply to heat and light a residence. This territory is close to the 
Belden oil field, lying in Lorain county. 
In the southeast corner of the county a number of wells have been 
drilled for salt. These are at or near Wadsworth. Doubtless the forma- 
tions correspond closely with those in Summit county, records of which are 
given elsewhere. . 
