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60 GAS RESOURCES OF PARTS OF NORTH TEXAS.
Log of C. B. Shaffer well No. 1 on J. D. Jameson farm, Montague County,
Tex.-Continued.
Thick- Depth.
ness.
Feet. Feet.
Shale, soft, blue......................................................................... 55 1,830
Twenty-eighth sand, soft, gray, slight salt water..................................15 1,845
Shale, soft blue........................................................................ 10 1,855
Lime,hard, white...................................................................... 20 1,875
Shale, soft gray.......................................................... 40 1,915
Lime, hard, white...................................................................... 10 1,925
Shale, soft gray..........................................................................30 1,955
Lima, hard, white............................................................. 15 1,970
Shale, soft, gray........................................................................ 50 2,020
Twenty-ninth sand, soft, gray, much salt water......................................... 20 2,040
Shale, soft gray...... .................................................... 35 2,075
Lime, hard, white...................................................................... 10 2,085
Shale, soft gray...... .................................................... 15 2,100
Lime, hard, white ................... ...................................... 10 2, 110
Shale, soft, gray .......................................................... 20 2,130
Thirtieth sand, hard, gray, much salt water............................................ 10 2,140
Shale, soft, gray......................................................................... 20 2,160
Thirty-first sand, soft, gray, much salt water............................................ 15 2,175
Shale, soft, gray..................... 5 2,180
Thirty-second sand, soft, gray, much salt water.................................. .40 2,220
Shale, soft, gray...... .................................................... 5 2,225
Thirty-third sand, hard, gray, much salt water......................................... 15 2,240
Shale, soft, gray......................................................................... 5 2,245
Thirty-fourth sand, soft, brown, much salt water........................................ 1 2,246
Small showings of both oil and gas are reported from Cook and
Denton counties and a well 2,365 feet deep has recently been sunk
about 6 miles south of Denton by J. S. Darnall, of Denton, and P. L.
Tippett, of Gainesville. These men are drilling another well between
Myra and Red River in Cook County.
Small showings of oil are reported in some wells in the eastern
part of Dallas County, but on the whole the sands underlying Dallas
and Tarrant counties seem to have lost all the oil, gas, and salt water
they ever had and are now filled with fresh water. A mile east of
Paradise in Wise County good showings of oil are reported and a log
of one well follows:
Driller's log of well 1 mile east of Paradise.
Thick-
ness. Depth.
Feet. Feet.
Clay ....................................................... 5 5
Qucksand............................................................................. 35 40
Sand, white, water...................................................................... 20 60
Sand and shells........................................................................ 10 70
Sand, water............................................................................ 10 80
" Gipp rock " ........................................................................... 4 84
"Trivally" sand........................................................................ 14 98
Sand rock ............................................................................. 2 100
Pack sand...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .................................. 10 110
Gumbo, red............................................................................. 6 116
Sand rock ........................................................................... 6 122
Sand rock "crystallized" ..................................................... .3 125
Pack sand.............................................................................. 1 126
Gumbo ............................................................................. 1 128
Shale, blue.. ............. ............................................... 6 134
Pack sand; set 10-inch casing at 154 feet ................................................ 20 154
Sand rock.............................................................................. 3 157