48 NEW VOkK STATK .MISIHIM 



The (junnlity of <j^a.s iiroduccd in 1908 was approximately 

 3,860,000,000 eubic feet. In aniviiii,^ at this total estimates are 

 inchuletl ior certain producers who were unable to supi)ly exact 

 lig^ures. but as it is only the smaller operators who do not keep 

 records of the How, the estimate is very close to the actual pro- 

 duction. Xo account is made, however, of the gas consumed by 

 oil producers for pumping. The quantity of gas yielded by the 

 wells in 1907 w'as 3,052,145,000 cubic feet; in 1906, 3,007,086,000 

 cubic feet; and in 1905, 2,399,987,000 cubic feet. The value of the 

 natural gas reported by the producing companies varied according 

 to locality from a minimum of 18 cents to a maximum of 50 cents 

 a thousand cubic feet. The general average for the whole State 

 in 1908 was about 26 cents a thousand. 



New developments. There was unusual activity shown last 

 year in the drilling of new w^ells and the results on the whole were 

 very encouraging as indicated by the augmented production. 



In Chautauqua county the principal developments have been in 

 the fields near Silver Creek, Sheridan and Westfield, on the shores 

 of Lake Erie, where the gas is found at depths of from 1900 to 

 2300 feet in what is considered the white Medina sandstone. At 

 Silver Creek and Sheridan the South Shore Natural Gas Fuel Co. 

 and the Silver Creek Gas & Improvement Co. have drilled a num- 

 ber of wells in the past three or four years. The latter company 

 alone has 25 wells. The companies supply Sheridan, Silver Creek, 

 Forestville and Dunkirk. The Welch Gas Co. at Westfield has 

 three producing wells, of which one was completed in 1908. This 

 well found the gas at 2230 feet. The Frost Gas Co. completed 

 five new wells last year making 14 in all. The wells are located 

 in the towns of Sheridan and Pomfret at depths of from 1900 to 

 2100 feet, and the gas is piped to Dunkirk. 



Important developments have been made recently near Pavilion, 

 Lrenesee co. bv tlie Pavilion Natural Gas Co. and the Alden-Batavia 

 Natural Gas Co. The former company has nine wells which sup- 

 ply gas to Leroy and Pavilion'. The Alden-Batavia Co. has eight 

 wells in the same vicinity the flow of which is piped to Pavilion 

 and Batavia. One well was completed in 1908, which gave a flow 

 of 500,000 cubic feet a day from a depth of 1700 feet. The same 

 company drilled a well at Fargo in the town of Darien finding gas 

 at 1249 feet. 



