Sec. 973. Any person, firm or corporation holding property in any
coal bearing or coal producing township, in any county of the state
of Ohio, either in fee, by virtue of a lease for oil or gas, mining
purposes since January first, 1900, or otherwise, whereon wells have
been drilled for oil, gas or test purposes, shall cause to be made
by a competent engineer, an accurate map on a scale of not less than
one inch to four hundred feet, showing on said map the location and
number of wells as near as the same can be located, that have been
drilled, whether or not any of such wells have been previously
abandoned, or were drilled and abandoned by former operators, who
have ever held the said property for oil, gas or mining purposes.

Said map shall show the name and address of the person, firm or
corporation owning said well or wells, the county and township, the
names of the adjoining property owners, and lines of the property
operated with the distances of the wells properly measured therefrom
and checked from the section and quarter section lines, as will be
necessary for an accurate survey. The map shall show all the
engineer's notations of angles, distances, starting point, or corner
stones, together with the numbers given the respective wells, giving
a legend as to the manner in which various abandoned or producing
wells, are designated. The original map shall be retained by the
owner or his agent, and one copy filed with the industrial
commission of Ohio, division of mines, said copy showing thereon the
sworn statement of the engineer making the map that same is correct.


=Well shall not be near mine opening.=