[Trade Journal]
Publication: Eighth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey
Washington, DC, United States
p. 590,621, col. 1
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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.
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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
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¹ Geol. Survey Ohio, vol. 6, 1888.
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