l86 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Gowanda. Record given by Bishop (" Structural and Economic 



Geology of Erie County ") *• 



Drift 379 feet 



Casing 755 



Top of Comiferous i 725 



Gas at I 885 



Bottom 2 150 



Richardson well, near Morton's Corners. This locality is in the 



town of Collins, just north ot the Zoar district. The record is 



taken from " Structural and Economic Geology of Erie county " 



by Bishop. 



Drift 80 feet 



Casing 435 



Top of Corniferous at i 925 



Small flow of gas at 2 195 



Salt water at 2 675 

 Salt water, chocolate colored sand at 2 785 



Through limestone and shale at 2 815 



Red Medina at 2815 



Through White Medina at 2 990 



Red shale at 2 990 



Bottom (red shale) at 3 303 



Genesee county. A small gas field occurs in the southwestern 

 comer of Genesee county in the town of Darien. It might be 

 considered as an extension of the eastern Erie county field although 

 it is separated from the latter by a stretch of 3 miles in which no 

 productive pools have been found. About 15 wells have been 

 drilled, most of them in the area south and southwest of Corfu 

 Station on the New York Central Railroad. The first holes were 

 put down about 20 years ago. The gas occurs in the Medina sand- 

 stone at about the same depth and under similar conditions as in 

 the Alden section of Erie county. 



The main producer of the county is the Pavilion field which came 

 under development in 1906 and since has ranked as one- of the most 

 important fields for its size in the State. Mr W. P. Randall, formerly 

 engineer for the PaviHon Natural Gas Co., has suppHed the following 

 details in regard to the occurrence of the gas.^ 



The Pavilion field lies south of the Roanoke district in the south- 

 east comer of Genesee county. Its boundaries are defined approxi- 

 mately by a line mnning from the southem boundary of Genesee 

 county northerly to Bethlehem Center, thence easterly along the 

 Telephone road through PaviUon Center to the east boundary of 

 Genesee county, thence south on said boimdary to the comer of 

 Genesee county and thence west to the point of beginning. It 

 comprises an area 3 miles wide north and south and 9 miles long 



1 See N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 174, 1914, p. 58-59- 



