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was considered to be the Potsdam at 3500 feet. The well yielded 

 a small volum.e of gas, insufficient to pay for the experiment. 



Oswego county. Local pools of natural gas are found at Pulaski, 

 Lacona and Fulton, supporting about fifty wells altogether. The 

 initial developments in this section took place about 1890. Both 

 Pulaski and Lacona are still supplied with gas from the original 

 sources. The wells at Fulton have not proved so persistent 

 producers and have been mostly, if not wholly, abandoned. At 

 Pulaski and Lacona the wells are bottomed at about 1000 feet deep, 

 or 400 to 500 feet in the Trenton limestone of which the top lies 

 at 400 to 600 feet from the well mouth. The full section, as estab- 

 lished from borings to the granite basement, is given by Prof. Edward 

 Orton as follows : 



Pleistocene 



0-96 feet 



Pulaski shale 



200-250 



Utica shale 



100-250 



Trenton limestone 



600 



Calciferous 



200 



Cambrian limestone and sandstone 35-90 



Precambrian granite at 



I 400-1 500 



Oneida county. Active prospecting for natural gas was carried 

 on in the vicinity of Rome, New York Mills and Utica in the nineties 

 of the last century. The results indicated the presence of gas in 

 small quantities in the Trenton limestone and Cincinnati shales, 

 but no persistent flows were found. The most encouraging indica- 

 tions were encountered in the wells at Rome where the gas when 

 first tapped issued under high pressure and at the rate of 500,000 

 cubic feet or more a day. The flows, however, quickly subsided 

 so that it was not considered worth while to attempt to distribute 

 the gas for general use. Condensed records of wells in this section 

 are here given. 



Well at Rome. 



Drift 



125 feet 



Utica shale 



660 



Trenton limestone 



I 095 



Beekmantown and Potsdam 



I 295 + 



Red granite at 



I 560 



A flow of gas was encotmtered at 830 feet under pressure equivalent 

 to 6 inches of water, which would indicate 3,500,000 feet a day, 

 but which rapidly declined so that in a few months the measured 

 volume was only a few thousands a day. 



