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to have followed the consumption of a few hundred thousand 

 cubic feet of gas a day. 



It is commonly reported that this company has recently sold 

 its entire plant, leases, wells, pipe-lines and franchises to the 

 Syracuse gas light co. but the fact or the terms of the sale have 

 not been made public. The use to be made of the gas will soon 

 be determined, but it is probable that some of it will be intro- 

 duced into the city gas line, to be intermixed with the artificial 

 product. 



During the past year the number of wells in and around Bald- 

 winsville has been more than doubled, but no new features have 

 been added to the field. Those who have drilled the later wells 

 have kept well within the boundaries already established as 

 covering productive territory, so that no additions to the latter 

 have been made. 



The most notable fact of the past year is the deepening of the 

 Monroe well by the addition of 240 feet to its depth and a con- 

 sequent great addition to its volume and restoration of its rock 

 pressure, which had been lowered more than 1000 pounds. The 

 Baldwinsville wells were greatly reduced by the winter demand, 

 and if the month of March had not been unusually mild a short- 

 age of gas would have been experienced in the village supply. 

 After deepening, the well showed a rock pressure of 1-350 pounds, 

 which was gained in 15 minutes. Its volume, as measured by 

 the open flow, was 3,737,000 cubic feet a day. This is the largest 

 volume yet reported from any well in this part of the state. 



The specific gravity of the Trenton limestone gas from the 

 Baldwinsville field, and, no doubt, representing the gas of all 

 the fields, was determined for the survey by Mr W. W. Randolph 

 of New York, who is expert in this line of investigation. He 

 made use of the " effusion method,-' employing modern apparatus 

 of the most approved construction. The results of a number of 

 observations showed the figure .551 to represent the specific grav- 

 ity of the gas, but even this figure was held subject to correc- 

 tion. 



The composition of the gas was determined by the Syracuse 

 gas co., the analysis being conducted by Dr Durand Woodman 

 of New York. The gas company kindly allowed the survey the 

 use of its results, which are given below : 



