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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



a Production of petroleum in New York 



YEAR 



1891 

 1892 



1893 

 1894 



1895 

 1896 

 1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 



*9°3 

 1904 



1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 



BARRELS 



VALUE 



585 



030 



$1 



061 



970 



273 



343 





708 



297 



051 



39 1 





660 



000 



942 



43 1 





790 



464 



912 



948 



1 



240 



468 



205 



220 



1 



420 



653 



279 



155 



1 



005 



736 



205 



250 



1 



098 



284 



320 



909 



1 



708 



926 



300 



9 2 5 



1 



759 



501 



206 



618 



1 



460 



008 



119 



73o 



1 



53o 



852 



162 



978 



1 



849 



i35 



036 



179 



1 



709 



770 



949 



5ii 



1 



566 



93 1 



043 



088 



1 



721 



095 



052 



324 



1 



73<> 



335 



160 



128 



2 



071 



533 



160 



402 



1 



914 



663 



a The statistics for the years 1891-1903 inclusive are taken from the annual volumes ot 

 the Mineral Resources. 



The records of new wells as compiled and published by the 

 Oil City Derrick show that a total of 457 wells were completed in 

 New York during 1909. The increment from the new wells 

 amounted to 715 barrels a day. Of the number 32 were dry 

 holes. In 1908 the corresponding totals were 450 new wells 

 including 60 dry ones, with a daily production of 750 barrels. 



PYRITE 



Pyrite is a common ingredient of the metamorphosed sedi- 

 mentary rocks which are found in the Highlands of south- 

 eastern New York and in the Adirondacks. It occurs dissemi- 

 nated in the crystalline limestones and schists and occa- 

 sionally forms bands and lenticular masses of variable size and 

 purity within the schists. In character these deposits are very 

 similar to the magnetite bodies that are found within the altered 

 sediments of both regions, and in fact the two minerals are 

 frequently associated in their occurrence. On the other hand 

 the magnetites that are contained in the acidic gneisses of 

 igneous origin generally carry little or no pyrite. Pyrrhotite is 



