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Well at Utica. The site of this well, drilled for water, is on the 



grounds of the Globe Woolen Mills It was drilled in 1896. A gas 



flow was encountered at 225 feet but was cased off. 



Drive pipe 4^ feet 



Utica shale 495 



Trenton limestone 864 



Beekmantown and Potsdam i 304 



Granite to botto n at i 855 + 



Gas in other counties. Sporadic attempts have been made to 

 explore for natural gas in the outlying sections, beyond the limits 

 of the known productive areas. Thus, wells have been drilled in 

 most of the counties that lie between the Mohawk river and the 

 Pennsylvania boundary as far east as the Hudson river. In many 

 instances there have been some indications of gas, real or supposed, 

 that supplied an incentive for imdertaking the test; very commonly 

 the observation of gas bubbles arising from the bed of a pond or 

 lake has aroused interest, or the tapping of a little gas in a shallow 

 well put down for water supply. The lack of success that has 

 attended such undertakings seems to show that the eastern part of 

 the State is of doubtful value, to say the least, and caution should 

 be exercised in embarking upon any extensive campaign of drilling 



in this area. 



Well on Murphy farm, Catlin, Chemung county. This well was 

 drilled by the Catlin Oil, Gas & Mineral Co. in 1902-3. A small 

 quantity of gas was reported and a trace of oil, as indicated in the 



following record : 



Earth 17 feet 



Light gray shale 344 



Light slate ' 350 



Brown slate ^ 220 



First sand, some gas i 205 



Brown shale ^ 020 



Gray Hmestone, cherty i 025 



Brown shale ^ ^70 



Salt ^ 7i8| 



Second sand, trace of oil i 7632 



Hard cherty limestone i 700 



Red shale, changing to black 2 155 



Third sand 2 195 



Black soft shale 2 200J 



Well at Binghamton, Broome county. The record of this well is 

 taken from a paper by C. S. Prosser in the Bulletin of the Geological 

 Society of America, volume 4, 1893. 



Bluish gray argillaceous shale 50 feet 



Gray shale, more sandy 150 



Bltdsh argillaceous shale 250 



Bluish, finely arenaceous shale 350 



Gray and blue shale . 55° 



