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Schuyler county, the Baldwinsville Light & Heat Co. of Baldwins- 

 ville, Onondaga county, the Pulaski Gas & Oil Co. of Pulaski, Os- 

 wego county, and the Sandy Creek Oil & Gas Co. of Sandy Creek 

 in the same county. 



Production. The present status of the gas industry is shown by 

 the accompanying table which gives the production for the last 

 four years. In the earlier years it has been possible to distribute 

 the production according to the county or district in which it was 

 made, but with the consolidation of the pipe-line companies which 

 has recently taken place, the output can not be readily segregated, 

 especially in the case of the western fields where some of the com- 

 panies operate in several counties. 



Reports from the individual producers show the value of the 

 gas produced in 1913 to have been $2,549,227, an increase of over 

 35 per cent as compared with the value reported in the preceding 

 year. The gain was the largest reported in any single year. The 

 actual flow from the wells was 9,155,429,000 cubic feet, against 

 6,564,659,000 cubic feet in 1912. There were about 1750 productive 

 wells. 



The average price received for the gas sold for general consump- 

 tion was 27.8 cents a thousand, against 28.7 in 1912. The slight 

 decrease is accounted for by the g^in in the production of the 

 western fields where the gas brings a relatively lower price than 

 in the outlying districts which about held their own. 



Production of natural gas 



COUNTY 



1910 



1911 1912 



I9I3 



Allegany- Cattaraugus . . 



Chautauqua 



Eriei 



Livingston - 



$337 427 

 202 754 

 717 038 

 60 997 

 12 733 

 14 783 

 65 967 



$402 931 

 222 023 

 813 279 



73 357 

 12 972 



14 913 

 7 602 



$1 503 274 

 263 742 

 a 



81 740 



14 260 



16 366 



2 915 



$2 119 824 



324 939 



a 



70 396 



13 488 



18 027 



2 553 



Onondaga 



Oswego 



Wyoming ' 





$1 411 699 



$1 547 077 



$1 882 297 



$2 549 227 



1 Includes output of Genesee county for 191 1 and part of it for 1910. 



2 Includes also Seneca, Schuyler, Steuben, Ontario and Yates. 



3 Includes Niagara. 



a Erie and Genesee counties included under Allegany-Cattaraugus. 



The reports received for 1913 showed a total of about 200 in- 

 dividual producers with 1750 wells. More than one-half the pro- 



