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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  out 
  finding 
  further 
  gas 
  and 
  was 
  abandoned 
  at 
  2150 
  feet. 
  The 
  gas 
  

   was 
  piped 
  to 
  Mr 
  McCollum's 
  house 
  and 
  now 
  supplies 
  five 
  stove 
  

   and 
  grate 
  connections, 
  and 
  30 
  gas 
  burners. 
  The 
  gas 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  

   be 
  of 
  a 
  quality 
  fully 
  equal 
  to 
  the 
  illuminating 
  gas 
  furnished 
  the 
  

   city 
  of 
  Lockport. 
  

  

  Clifford 
  Bros, 
  are 
  now 
  sinking 
  a 
  well 
  for 
  gas 
  near 
  the 
  canal 
  

   opposite 
  the 
  Erie 
  railroad 
  station. 
  It 
  is 
  intended 
  to 
  proceed 
  no 
  

   lower 
  than 
  the 
  white 
  Medina 
  sandstone. 
  

  

  Record 
  of 
  well 
  no. 
  2 
  of 
  the 
  'Niagara 
  oil 
  and 
  gas 
  co. 
  

  

  Located 
  on 
  the 
  Bradshaw 
  farm 
  near 
  Coomer 
  p. 
  o., 
  dist. 
  13, 
  lot 
  

   36, 
  township 
  of 
  Newfane 
  a 
  

  

  Drilled 
  Jan. 
  4, 
  1892 
  

  

  Red 
  Medina, 
  dark 
  Hud- 
  Calciferous 
  1910 
  to 
  1930 
  feet 
  

  

  son 
  river 
  and 
  Utica 
  Hydromica 
  and 
  dark 
  

  

  shale 
  to 
  1200 
  feet 
  green 
  schists 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  Trenton 
  1200 
  to 
  1910 
  Archean 
  1930 
  to 
  1980 
  

  

  No 
  Potsdam 
  

  

  The 
  well 
  had 
  a 
  little 
  gas 
  from 
  1912 
  to 
  1918 
  feet. 
  

   Well 
  was 
  cased 
  to 
  243 
  feet 
  and 
  was 
  dry 
  afterward. 
  

  

  CONCLUSIONS 
  REGARDING 
  NATURAL 
  GAS 
  IN 
  THE 
  DISTRICT 
  STUDIED 
  

  

  Careful 
  observations 
  extending 
  over 
  Erie 
  co. 
  and 
  eastward 
  as 
  

   far 
  as 
  this 
  investigation 
  has 
  gone, 
  lead 
  me 
  to 
  the 
  following 
  con- 
  

   clusions 
  regarding 
  natural 
  gas: 
  

  

  1 
  It 
  originates 
  from 
  the 
  decomposition 
  of 
  organic 
  matter, 
  and 
  

   accumulates 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  or 
  an 
  adjacent 
  overlying 
  stratum 
  which 
  

   acts 
  as 
  a 
  reservoir. 
  

  

  2 
  This 
  reservoir-stratum 
  may 
  have 
  an 
  impervious 
  cap 
  which 
  

   prevents 
  the 
  upward 
  movement 
  of 
  the 
  gas: 
  or 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  porous 
  

   like 
  sandstone, 
  or 
  contain 
  wide 
  joints 
  or 
  fissures 
  like 
  limestone. 
  

  

  3 
  The 
  capacity 
  of 
  the 
  reservoir 
  depends 
  upon 
  the 
  thickness 
  of 
  

   the 
  stratum; 
  the 
  looseness 
  of 
  cohesion 
  among 
  the 
  grains 
  compos- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  sandstone, 
  or 
  the 
  size 
  of 
  the 
  joints 
  of 
  a 
  limestone; 
  or 
  the 
  

   form 
  of 
  structure 
  which 
  the 
  reservoir 
  takes, 
  as 
  for 
  example 
  an 
  

   anticline 
  or 
  arch. 
  

  

  a 
  See 
  report 
  of 
  N. 
  Y. 
  state 
  geologist. 
  1895, 
  p. 
  386. 
  

  

  