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Jackson Township (part 19 of 19)
Part 19 of 19 of the account of this township in Geology of Southern Ohio : Including Jackson and Lawrence Counties and Parts of Pike, Scioto, and Gallia, published 1916. 425 words, covering 8 settlements. The chapter predates the incorporation of Jackson Township and Jackson City, so it covers both. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter, on this part. Each one jumps to where it begins.
Parts
19 pagesThe source prints this as one continuous account. It is split here so no single page grows too heavy to load; the text runs straight on across the parts and nothing is omitted.
The chapter
425 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Geology of Southern Ohio : Including Jackson and Lawrence Counties and Parts of Pike, Scioto, and Gallia, published 1916. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
On Dirtyface Creek in the southern part of Section 20, Greenfield Township, a well to the Berea sand was drilled on the property of Thomas J. Edwards. The head of the well is only a few feet above the Ferriferous limestone and the work was done by the Planet Oil Company in the year 1913. Fred W. Crawford, of Columbus, Ohio, furnished the Survey the following information in regard to the rocks penetrated by the drill: The Salt sand with a strong flow of water was sti;uck at a depth of 620 feet and continued to a depth of 790 feet, while the Big Injun sand was found at 910 feet and the Berea at 1,193 feet. The Berea sand was 25 feet in thickness and wholly barren of either oil or gas.
In June, 1915, a test of the Berea formation was made on the Ernest Riggs farm, in hope of securing oil or gas in commercial quantities. The well was located south of Raccoon Creek, and about one-fourth mile west of the Gallipolis road near Raccoon Island in Clay Township. The contractor was W. L. Hyde, of Marietta, Ohio, to whom the Survey is indebted for the following record: Depth at which
The well made a small showing of oil in the top of the Berea sand. However, after shooting, it gave a strong flow of water, but only a small quantity of oil.
Maxton And Middle Salt Sand Wells
Four shallow wells, in which the horizons reached by the drill are not definitely known, owing to lack of data, have been drilled in the western part of Gallia County. Many years ago a shallow test was drilled on the land of Dr. G. K. Ewing, which is located just south of the village of Ewington, in Huntington Township. The drill is reported to have descended to a depth of aboujt 500 feet and to have stopped in limestone, probably the Maxville. The well yielded a trifling flow of gas for many years. Two shallow tests were drilled north of Bidwell on the Adkins property, now owned by Aaron Quickie. They yielded only small flows of gas which proliably came from either the Maxton or Middle Salt sand. No definite information regarding these wells was secured. A shallow test located on the land of C. F. Vamey, and just east of the bridge that crosses Raccoon Creek at Adamsville, was drilled many years ago, and is yet producing a small flow of gas. It is reported to be a shallow well, probably extending no farther than the Maxton sand.
Provenance
Text from Geology of Southern Ohio : Including Jackson and Lawrence Counties and Parts of Pike, Scioto, and Gallia, published 1916, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.