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ducers were in Chautauqua county, but most of them reported as 

 having but one well utilized for a single household. Erie county 

 had by far the largest output of any county in the State, although 

 the actual production can not be definitely stated. The product 

 of Erie and Genesee counties is included under that of Allegany- 

 Cattaraugus in the first item of the table. The four counties to- 

 gether contributed a total of 7,392,718,000 cubic feet, with a value 

 of $2,119,824. This represented a gain of about 2,000,000,000 cubic 

 feet over that of 1912. The Orchard Park pool in Erie county, 

 which was discovered in the spring of 1912, accounted for much 

 of the increase, but the Pavilion field also made a good showing. 



Pavilion field. One of the most important natural gas fields in 

 the State of relatively recent discovery is in the vicinity of Pavilion, 

 Genesee county. The first holes were drilled in 1906, and there 

 are now about sixty producing wells which maintain a very steady 

 flow. The following information in regard to the local features 

 and developments has been contributed by W. P. Randall, engineer, 

 of the Pavilion Natural Gas Company. 



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

 east corner of Genesee county. Its boundaries are defined approx- 

 imately by a line running from the southern boundary of Genesee 

 county northerly to Bethlehem Center, thence easterly along the 

 Telephone road through Pavilion Center to the east boundary of 

 Genesee county, thence south on said boundary to the corner 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 

 east and west. The gas is distributed by two companies, the 

 New York Central Gas Co. with pipes running to Batavia, Attica, 

 Corfu, and other towns in that vicinity, and the Pavilion Natural 

 Gas Co. which supplies Mumford, Caledonia, Le Roy, Pavilion, 

 Warsaw, Perry, Mount Morris, Moscow and smaller places along 

 the route. New lines are being laid by the latter company to 

 Linwood, York, Greigsville, Retsof, Piflard, Cuylerville, Geneseo 

 and Avon. The trunk lines convey the gas under pressure of from 

 60 to 125 pounds ; reducing stations at the distributing points lower 

 the pressure to the normal required for consumption. 



The gas is dry, nearly pure, marsh gas with less than 8 per cent 

 of other ingredients. The pressure in the original wells was 500 

 pounds a square inch and has shown little diminution. Along the 

 eastern boundary of the field and near Linwood, wells of from 

 five to seven million cubic feet daily capacity have been drilled. 



