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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



a Production of petroleum in New York 



YEAR 



T«9I 



1892 



1893 

 1894 



1895 

 1896 

 1897 

 1898 

 1899 

 1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 



1905 

 1906 

 1907 

 1908 

 1909 



VALUE 



$1 061 970 



708 297 



660 000 



790 464 



240 468 



420 653 



005 736 



098 284 



708 926 



759 501 



460 008 



530 852 



849 135 



709 770 

 566 931 

 721 095 

 736 335 

 071 533 

 914 663 



a The statistics for the years 1891-1903 inclusive are taken from the annual volumes ot 

 the Mineral Resources. 



The records of new wells as compiled and published by the 

 Oil City Derrick show that a total of 457 wells were com;pleted in 

 New York during 1909. The increment from the new wells 

 amounted to 715 barrels a day. Of the number 32 were dry 

 holes. In 1908 the corresponding totals were 450 new wells 

 including 60 dry ones, with a daily production of 750 barrels. 



PYRITE 



Pyrite is a common ingredient of the metamorphosed sedi- 

 mentary rocks which are found in the Highlands of south- 

 eastern New York and in the Adirondacks. It occurs dissemi- 

 nated in the crystalline limestones and schists and occa- 

 sionally forms bands and lenticular masses of variable size and 

 purity within the schists. In character these deposits are very 

 similar to the magnetite bodies that are found within the altered 

 sediments of both regions, and in fact the two minerals are 

 frequently associated in their occurrence. On the other hand 

 the magnetites that are contained in the acidic gneisses of 

 igneous origin generally carry little or no pyrite. Pyrrhotite is 



