PROSSER THE GENESEE SECTION. 



Section of Warsaw Salt Company's Well, ^ mile north ok 

 B., R. & P. R. R. Station at Warsaw, N. Y. 



Approximate altitude 1190' A. T.(') 



thick 



NESS. 



i6' 



KIND OF ROCK. 



l6' 



Clay. 



940' Shale. 



formation. 



Portage. 

 Genesee. 

 Hamilton. 

 Marcellus. 



956 



i=;6' 



430 



" Corniferous limestone." 



Limestone and shale. 



" Shale and salt mixed." 



ist salt stratum. 



Shale. {') 



2d salt stratum. 

 Bottom of well. (') 



Upper Helderberg^ 

 Lower Helderberg, 





03 



d 



c 



(:.) Ann. Rept. Supt. Onondaga Salt Springs for iSS8, chart No. III. 



(2.) Dr. Engelhardt gives the thickness of the last layer of shale as lo' instead of 6', which 

 makes a total depth of 1658' (Ibiii., chart No. II.) It is also stated that these wells have "an aver- 

 age depth of 1650 feet and seventy-five feet of rock salt in several layers, with shale between" {Ibid., 

 p. 18). 



(3.) In Well No. 4 of this company, salt was reached at 1510' and the total depth of the well is 

 1621' (5th Ann. Rept. State Geologist [of New York] for 1885, p. 22). 



Mr. I. W. Smith of Syracuse, kindly gave me the following record of another well of the Warsaw 

 Salt Co. (formerly known as the Wing and Evans), which is stated to be near the above well. 



FORMATION. 



f Portage. 

 ' Genesee. 

 1 Hamilton. 

 '. Marcellus. 

 Upper Helderberg. 

 Lower Helderberg. 



\ri 



J " 



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