Excerpt from West Virginia Geological Survey, Vol. 1: Petroleum and Natural Gas, Precise Levels To His Excellency, Albert B. White, Governor of West Virginia, and President of the Geological Survey Commission: Sir: - I have the honor to transmit herewith a supplementary Report on Petroleum and Natural Gas entitled Volume One A. The edition of Volume One on this subject had become entirely exhausted, and as the Survey received frequent requests for the same, the Commission authorized the publication of this supplementary volume to supply the demand in question. Then, too, the Survey has collected many valuable records of oil and gas well borings in the several regions of the State, the publication of which will prove of great value not only to those connected with oil and gas developments, but also to those interested in coal, since these records give exact measurements through the several geological formations, and in a more or less accurate manners indicate the presence or absence of valuable coal beds, together with their depths below the surface, and approximate thickness. The publication of these records is necessary for their preservation beyotid the possibility of loss as well as to place them in a form available for use, and their value to the citizens of the State both now and for the future, fully warrants the comparatively small expense of printing. In the preparation of the text of this Report, the previous Volume One has been drawn upon quite freely, since much of it is of ever permanent interest, but the well records with a very few exceptions, are entirely new. Those added from Pennsylvania are published because they are contiguous to the West Virginia oil fields, and tend to aid our operators in their tireless search for these buried treasures which have added so much to the wealth and prosperity of the State. The Publication Committee has contracted for an edition of 5,000 copies of this report, 3334 copies of which are to be bound in cloth and the remainder in paper, and the Commission has fixed the price at $1.00 per copy for the paper binding, and $1.25 per copy for the cloth, delivered free to the purchaser by mail or express. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.