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of the single well. The supply was short and the pressure fell 

 rapidly away. 



Well no. 2 was located on the R. K. Sanford farm, which ad- 

 joined the Vogelsang farm. This well is about 2000 feet from 

 well no. 1, and is due east of the village center. It was drilled 

 to a depth of 2383 feet. Gas was found as in well no. 1 through- 

 out the Trenton limestone and its yield was steady from the 

 first. It was at once turned into the village line and relieved 

 the demand of the consumers for the time being. Well no. 3 was 

 located on the Palmer farm and was due south of the Sanford 

 well. It was drilled about 2000 feet deep and furnished a moder- 

 ate amount of gas. 



By this time the fortunes of the company had come to be so 

 promising in the eyes of the business world that competition was 

 introduced. The first exhibition of it was made by a company 

 that called itself the Oswego river gas company. A trial well 

 was located and drilled in the river valley at the north end of 

 the village, but it found very little gas and the company gave 

 up the search with this one unsuccessful trial. 



A more important attempt to establish itself in what was com- 

 ing to be counted a new gas field was made by a body of petro- 

 leum producers and drillers called the Eastern oil company of 

 Buffalo. This company secured a lease on the Hoff farm and 

 located a well not more than 500 feet from well no. 1 of the 

 Fulton company. The well proved successful and the Eastern 

 oil company thereupon offered the home company one and a half 

 dollars for every dollar it had invested in the field. The offer- 

 was declined and the Fulton company bought instead the new 

 well and connected it with its village line. This well will be 

 counted as no. 4. 



Well no. 5 was located on the same farm on which the first 

 well was drilled and but 600 feet distant from it. This well 

 proved a complete failure. It was practically a dry-hole. 



The company now had five wells on its village line, but it had 

 taken on new consumers as it increased the number of its wells. 

 From the first it had been obliged to overtax its entire supply. 

 Each well had been drawn on to its full capacity, and the serv- 

 ice of the company had for this reason always been unsatisfac- 



