The Trenton Limestone, statistics on Hemingray's Covington well
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[Trade Journal] Publication: Eighth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey Washington, DC, United States |
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· · CHAPTER V.
PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAS AND OIL FIELDS.
The application of the facts and principles that have been stated in the preceding section remains to be made in a condensed account of the leading geographical divisions of the new gas and oil territory. Before entering on this discussion two or three topics that have a common bearing on all the fields will be briefly discussed. · · The composition of the so-called Blue-lick water of the wells that go down into and below the Trenton, limestone series in southern Ohio and Indiana is probably various, There is but a single analysis at hand. The water of the Hemingray well, Newport, Ky., as analyzed in the Ohio Geological Survey by Professor Lord,¹ has the following composition: Parts in 1,000 : Chloride of sodium ......................................10.530 Chloride of magnesium ................................0.929 Sulphate of lime ...........................................1.818 Silica ...........................................................0.007 Iron and alumina .........................................Trace. Sulphureted hydrogen present but undetermined. Total ..........................................................13.284 · · ¹ Geol. Survey Ohio, vol. 6, 1888. · ·
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