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  Forty-seventh 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  State 
  Museum. 
  

  

  well 
  at 
  425 
  feet 
  from 
  the 
  surface. 
  If 
  sixty 
  feet 
  be 
  allowed 
  for 
  

   the 
  Marcellus 
  shales, 
  there 
  would 
  remain 
  as 
  the 
  thickness 
  of 
  the 
  

   Hamilton 
  strata, 
  365 
  feet. 
  

  

  The 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Pearl 
  Creek 
  well 
  is 
  about 
  fifty 
  feet 
  above 
  

   the 
  bottom 
  of 
  the 
  Geuesee. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Moulton 
  well, 
  after 
  passing 
  through 
  fifty-three 
  feet 
  of 
  

   drift, 
  the 
  Genesee 
  slate 
  was 
  reached 
  about 
  fifty-nine 
  feet 
  above 
  

   the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  group. 
  

  

  The 
  well 
  of 
  the 
  Globe 
  Salt 
  Company 
  is 
  situated 
  at 
  the 
  

   mouth 
  of 
  a 
  ravine 
  near 
  the 
  village 
  of 
  Wyoming, 
  where 
  

   sixty 
  to 
  seventy 
  feet 
  of 
  the 
  soft 
  olive 
  shales 
  of 
  the 
  

   Cashaqua 
  division 
  of 
  the 
  Portage 
  group, 
  with 
  the 
  charac- 
  

   teristic 
  fossils 
  more 
  than 
  ordinarily 
  abundant, 
  are 
  well 
  

   exposed 
  in 
  the 
  sides 
  of 
  the 
  gulch 
  and 
  along 
  the 
  bed 
  of 
  the 
  stream. 
  

   The 
  "second 
  black 
  band" 
  is 
  exposed 
  about 
  half 
  a 
  mile 
  up 
  the 
  

   ravine. 
  The 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  well 
  is 
  about 
  sixty 
  feet 
  above 
  the 
  

   bottom 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  black 
  band, 
  which 
  is 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  Portage 
  

   group. 
  

  

  The 
  Pioneer 
  well, 
  in 
  which 
  rock 
  salt 
  was 
  first 
  reached 
  in 
  the 
  

   State 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  was 
  drilled 
  at 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  a 
  small 
  ravine 
  

   about 
  a 
  mile 
  south 
  of 
  the 
  village 
  of 
  Wyoming, 
  on 
  the 
  west 
  side 
  

   of 
  the 
  valley. 
  After 
  passing 
  through 
  forty 
  feet 
  of 
  intermingled 
  

   clay 
  and 
  broken 
  shale, 
  forty 
  feet 
  of 
  bluish 
  Portage 
  shales 
  were 
  

   penetrated, 
  and 
  at 
  least 
  fifty 
  or 
  sixty 
  feet 
  at 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  w 
  220 
  

   feet 
  black 
  shales 
  " 
  in 
  the 
  record, 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  lower 
  black 
  band 
  

   of 
  the 
  Portage 
  group. 
  

  

  Well 
  No. 
  1 
  of 
  the 
  Crystal 
  Salt 
  Company 
  at 
  Saltvale 
  has 
  136 
  

   feet 
  of 
  drift 
  overlying 
  the 
  first 
  rock, 
  which 
  is 
  soft 
  shale, 
  about 
  

   forty-two 
  feet 
  above 
  the 
  bottom 
  of 
  the 
  Portage. 
  

  

  The 
  wells 
  of 
  the 
  Miller 
  Salt 
  Company, 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  Salt 
  Com- 
  

   pany 
  and 
  the 
  Warsaw 
  Salt 
  Company 
  were 
  begun 
  in 
  the 
  " 
  Gar- 
  

   deau" 
  flags 
  and 
  shales 
  of 
  the 
  Portage 
  epoch 
  from 
  319 
  to 
  33-1 
  

   feet 
  above 
  the 
  bottom 
  of 
  that 
  group, 
  and 
  Dr. 
  Gouinlock's 
  well 
  

   (east 
  side) 
  passes 
  through 
  at 
  least 
  400 
  feet 
  of 
  Portage 
  rocks. 
  

   The 
  Gouinlock 
  & 
  Humphrey 
  wells, 
  on 
  the 
  west 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  valley 
  

   near 
  the 
  Erie 
  tracks, 
  and 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  Hawley 
  Salt 
  Compan}^, 
  

   one-fourth 
  mile 
  south, 
  were 
  begun 
  in 
  the 
  thin 
  sandstone 
  of 
  the 
  

   upper 
  Portage 
  and 
  sunk 
  through 
  from 
  600 
  to 
  625 
  feet 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  