Show OLEOLOGY OF INDIANA II I Itrcularity of Hoosier Koclti Down to the Gas and OH Special Correspondence KocKViLLE Ind Juno 27 All the talk i of cas This i very near the extreme southwest border of that belt in which according t the savants natural gas may be found and it is the daily prayer of many a real estate owner that it may not prove to bo just a little too far southwest S And in order to understand the gassy news that i t say the telegrams about gas it i necessary for you to know a little about the < geology of Indiana which i on this wise To begin with the strata a unusually regular and all incline westsouthwest at I legln a t I dips varying from five to fifty feet to the mile Of course there are 1 few fractures local axes and other variations but only a 0 few and none of them very abrupt ji i From this min fact it follows that a one goes westward across Indiana Indi-ana he i successively passing on to newer rock from the Old Niagara Limestone S Lime-stone in west central Ohio t the Devonian of eastern Indiana the mountain limistoiio I farther west the crinoidal limestone on tho 1 line of Crawfordsville nnd the eastern edpts of the coal measures in the next counties west The line of the outcrop the line where I the eastern edge of each stratum comes t tho 1 1 surface in hollows nnd creek bnuUs runs northnorthwest so i you will start from the Ohio river on the hue of any one rock you can follow it right across tho state in a direction direc-tion a little west of north nnd in the mxt 4 county west you will find that rock 100 or 150 feet deep while I new rock has become the outcrop The Ohio rivers course illustrates this beautifully as it has t run across the thnr edge of these strata directly nt rijjit g ngles reaching one the stuhj tunis Id ho right or left to find dgfijSt place then breaks through and flows Hrpctly across the Krnphipnl valley t the jipct outcrop whero t l repeats the search bra week place In bort the river breaks through the Silurian about Lawrenceburjr through the old Devonian De-vonian a hUe lower down then through the latest Devonian and finally on the border of Perry county it gets out into the great caiboniferous basin and flows through a far less picturesque region t Cairo Now bear in mind that each one of these outcropping rocks i an under rock in the same order farther west and you will understand following table of the different differ-ent strata passed through by the auger which i going for gas at this place From feet To feet 081 clay and gravel 0 0 Gray sandstone 140 140 Brown soapstone 165 165Whiltesandstone 173 175 White soapstone 00 300 Black shale 303 305White sandstone 3 335Limestone 5 523 Slate S40 810Sandstone salt 030 9 White slate 1144 1141 t Illackslate1210 1210Limestone mineral water1334 t 1301 Brown andstone1400 1400Thite limestone1533 1533 Marble 1620 Chaoline 1078 16 Cmolne IG 1673 Lime rock 1770 Now if the strata maintain a dip of fifteen or twenty feet to the mile n they do in this county the last limestone struck would crop out some ninety or 10 miles east of here and if and it is a big if things are regular below we have t go but little farther to strike the Trenton limestone in which we may or may not find gas At any rate the gas we are going for is in the Trenton the same that in the eat i called the Black river or binlseye limestone I say that i the rock we are after but of course we might strike in the strata above The savants it just Te Sant say however that Trenton is t b the turning point n it was 111 years ago and the rock of our commercial salvation S wo have crossed the Delaware and are going for Trenton I I S |