238 n. j'. n. brumell — gas and petroleum in Ontario. 



at 1,017 feet a flow of gas equal to 10,000,000 cubic feet per day was 

 found. Another was drilled by the Citizens' Gas, Oil and Piping com- 

 pany of Kingsville on the road allowance aboui 55 yards west of the 

 above-mentioned well, and afforded 7,000,000 feet per day, from a rock 

 similar in character and depth to that in Coste number 1. On lot 7, 

 concession 1, of Gosfield. the Citizens' company again drilled and found 

 gas to the extent of 2,500,000 cubic feet per day, and I understand that 

 the Ontario company have been quite successful in a boring made 

 southeast of their Coste number 1, having obtained there a heavy flow, 

 estimated at 7,000,000 feet per day. All efforts to find gas north and 

 northwest of this group of wells have been futile, the beds being found 

 to be flooded with salt water. 



Other Localities. — Among other lesser producers may he mentioned 

 Carrolls, in Humberstone township, which afforded 1,000,000 cubic feet 

 per day. At Cayuga, in Haldimand county, west of Welland, a consid- 

 erable flow was found in the Medina as well as at Dunnville, about mid- 

 way between Port Colborne and Cayuga. In wells bored to or through 

 the Medina north and northwest of Welland, and the wells mentioned 

 above, the formation has been found to be practically barren of gas, the 

 only boring wherein it Avas noted being at Beeton. where in a soft sand- 

 stone just beneath the surface deposits a small quantity occurred. 



The Clinton a* a Gas-producer. — The Clinton in a small number of wells 

 has afforded large quantities of gas, the most marked instances being 

 those in Welland count} r , known as Near's, Reebe's and Hopkins' num- 

 ber 2, each of which produced 400,000 cubic feet per day, and the Mu- 

 tual company's well, which produced 1,500,000 cubic feet. These wells 

 are all in that district wherein the Medina is so productive, a fact that 

 rather tends to suggest that the gas is adventitious. Outside of this 

 count} 7 the Clinton has not as yet produced a single cubic foot of gas. 

 Exception must, of course, be taken to this statement if it be proved that 

 the productive horizon in Essex county is in that formation. 



The Niagara as a das- producer. — In Welland county the Niagara also 

 is a large producer of gas. well number 22 of the Provincial company 

 affording 1,850,000 cubic feet per day from the limestones of the upper 

 part of the formation, while in a well sunk a few miles north of this, at 

 Niagara Falls South, a flow of 50,000 cubic feet was obtained in the shales 

 beneath the limestone. 



OTHER GAS-BEARING FOli.VATIOXS. 



There now remain to be spoken of only three formations which have 

 afforded gas, though only as yet in small quantities. They arc the 

 Onondaga, the Trenton, and a sandstone of age anterior to the latter. 



