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Chautauqua county, but most of the number had only cne well 

 which was used for the supply of a single household. The produc- 

 tion of this county was 1,270,546,000 cubic feet with a value of 

 $350,904. Erie had the largest output of any county, although its 

 actual production can not be definitely stated. The four counties 

 of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Erie and Genesee together contributed 

 a total of 7,139,920,000 cubic feet valued at $2,095,945, which was 

 a little less than in 1913. The production represented the flow of 

 1456 wells and did not include the gas consumed in the oil district 

 for pumping operations. Of other counties which contributed, 

 Ontario was the most important with a total of 157,124,000 cubic 

 feet valued at $52,574. Altogether there were fifteen counties 

 represented in the industry. 



The business of distributing the output among the cities and 

 communities within the different districts is controlled by a relatively 

 few companies, some of whom are employed also in productive 

 operations. The largest single distributor is the Iroquois Natural 

 Gas Co. of Buffalo with pipe lines to the principal fields in Allegany, 

 Cattaraugus, Erie and Genesee counties. The Alden-Batavia 

 Natural Gas Co. and the Pavilion Natural Gas Co. are important 

 producers and distributors in the Erie-Genesee county district. In 

 Chautauqua county the larger operators include the Frost Gas Co., 

 the Silver Creek Gas & Improvement Co., and the South Shore 

 Natural Gas & Fuel Co. In Allegany and Cattaraugus counties 

 the Gowanda Natural Gas Co., the Empire Gas & Fuel Co. and the 

 Producers Gas Co. have pipe lines. In Ontario county the main 

 producer and distributor is the Ontario Gas Co. Among the 

 smaller companies engaged in the business are the Consumers 

 Natural Gas Co. with wells in the town of Darien, Schuyler county, 

 the Baldwinsville Light & Heat Co. of Baldwinsville, Onondaga 

 county, the Pulaski Gas & Oil Co. of Pulaski, Oswego county, and 

 the Sandy Creek Oil & Gas Co. of Sandy Creek, Oswego county. 



The geological occurrence of natural gas in the State has been 

 described in various reports issued by the New York State Museum. 

 The productive gas pools are distributed over portions of sixteen 

 counties, but they are all in the section that lies west of the 76th 

 meridian, which crosses the west end of Oneida lake.. Discoveries 

 have been reported from time to time in the eastern part of the 

 State, notably in the sections along the Mohawk river as far east 

 as Albany county; in this region, however, the gas seems to be 

 confined to small pockets which are rapidly depleted. 



The most prolific gas pools thus far found are in the sandstones 



