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prices received for the gas in the different centers of consumption. 

 The mean for the whole State was 29.4 cents a thousand in both 

 years. The actual prices range from 20 cents to over 50 cents a 

 thousand, the latter being reported from the isolated fields in the 

 central counties. 



Production of natural gas 



YEAR 



OUTPUT 

 IOOO CU. FT. 



VALUE 



NUMBER 

 OF WELLS 



I904 



1905 

 1906 

 I907 

 I908 

 I909 

 I9IO 

 I9II 

 1912 



1913 

 1914 



1915 



399 987 

 639 130 

 007 086 



052 145 

 860 000 

 825 215 

 815 643 

 127 571 

 564 659 



055 429 

 8 714 681 



7 no 040 



$552 197 



607 000 



766 579 



800 014 



987 775 



1 045 693 



1 411 699 



547 077 



882 297 



549 227 



57o 165 



085 324 



925 

 1 100 

 1 280 

 340 

 403 

 660 



750 

 797 

 051 



It would be of interest to give the statistics according to counties 

 or districts represented in the production, but owing to the fact 

 that the larger distributing companies may take their supplies from 

 several fields it has become difficult to segregate the output in this 

 way, although the figures for a few of the counties can be stated 

 separately. In all about 200 individuals and firms are represented 

 in the industry. Chautauqua county alone has over 100 pro- 

 ducers, but most of them are small with only a single well each, 

 used for family supply. The production of this county in 191 5 was 

 1,210,378,000 cubic feet valued at $335,610. Erie has the largest 

 output but the exact figures can not be stated. The four counties 

 of Allegany, Cattaraugus, Erie and Genesee, which are tributary to 

 Buffalo, contributed a total of 5,580,928,000 cubic feet with a value 

 of $1,631,194. This represented a large decline from the total re- 

 ported for the preceding year, as the result of the falling off in 

 Erie county. Genesee county increased its flow somewhat and 

 Allegany and Cattaraugus counties contributed about the usual 

 amount. The statistics do not include gas used in the pumping of 

 oil wells in the Allegany-Cattaraugus field. Among other counties, 

 Ontario contributed a total of 158,301,000 cubic feet valued at 



