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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  

  Record 
  of 
  Auburn 
  well 
  

  

  

  Salt 
  water 
  • 
  

  

  at 
  635 
  

  

  feet 
  

  

  Struck 
  gas 
  

  

  at 
  1580 
  feet 
  

  

  Cased 
  off 
  

  

  645 
  

  

  

  White 
  Medina 
  sand 
  

  

  1600 
  

  

  Soft 
  shale 
  to 
  

  

  1025 
  

  

  

  Red 
  Medina 
  sand 
  

  

  1740 
  

  

  Niagara 
  limestone 
  

  

  1025 
  

  

  

  White 
  Oswego 
  sand 
  

  

  2550 
  

  

  Black 
  shale 
  

  

  1100 
  

  

  

  Black 
  shale 
  

  

  2880 
  

  

  Blue 
  shale 
  

  

  1310 
  

  

  

  Trenton 
  rock 
  

  

  3300 
  

  

  Clinton 
  limestone 
  

  

  1520 
  

  

  

  Stopped 
  drilling 
  

  

  3600 
  

  

  Red 
  Medina 
  sand 
  

  

  1538 
  

  

  

  

  

  v 
  Gas 
  was 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  red 
  Medina 
  sandstone 
  at 
  1580 
  feet. 
  It 
  is 
  

   now 
  confined 
  in 
  the 
  well 
  and 
  has 
  not 
  yet 
  been 
  utilized. 
  Mr 
  Cary 
  

   estimates 
  the 
  production 
  at 
  40,000 
  cubic 
  feet 
  a 
  day. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  deep 
  well 
  at 
  Ithaca, 
  Tompkins 
  co., 
  a 
  small 
  amount 
  of 
  

   gas 
  was 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  Hamilton 
  and 
  the 
  bottom 
  of 
  the 
  

   Genesee. 
  

  

  A 
  small 
  streak 
  of 
  sulfureted 
  hydrogen 
  also, 
  occurred 
  in 
  the 
  

   Lower 
  Helderberg. 
  The 
  total 
  production 
  was 
  too 
  small 
  to 
  be 
  of 
  

   value. 
  

  

  Wells 
  in 
  Seneca 
  county 
  

  

  Seneca 
  Falls 
  

  

  Since 
  1885, 
  12 
  wells 
  have 
  been 
  sunk 
  at 
  Seneca 
  Falls, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  to 
  

  

  depths 
  ranging 
  from 
  1500 
  to 
  3560 
  feet. 
  The 
  following 
  careful 
  

  

  record 
  of 
  well 
  no. 
  12 
  was 
  furnished 
  by 
  Mr 
  W. 
  A. 
  Hoseley. 
  

  

  Gray 
  shale 
  mixed 
  with 
  

  

  black 
  at 
  2360 
  feet 
  

  

  Half 
  black 
  shale 
  2400 
  

  

  All 
  black 
  shale 
  2440 
  

  

  Shale 
  and 
  lime 
  mixed 
  2450 
  

  

  All 
  shale 
  2650 
  

  

  Top 
  Trenton 
  3000 
  

  

  Black 
  shale 
  % 
  3200 
  ' 
  

  

  Limestone 
  3225 
  

  

  Nearly 
  all 
  black 
  shale 
  3240 
  

  

  Crystalline 
  limestone 
  3275 
  

  

  All 
  black 
  shale 
  3400 
  

   Limestone 
  with 
  white 
  

  

  streaks 
  3485 
  

  

  To 
  bottom 
  3560 
  

  

  This 
  well 
  produces 
  about 
  5000 
  cubic 
  feet 
  of 
  gas 
  a 
  day 
  with 
  a 
  

   confined 
  rock 
  pressure 
  of 
  500 
  pounds. 
  The 
  best 
  gas 
  was 
  found 
  

   about 
  500 
  feet 
  below 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  Trenton 
  limestone. 
  

  

  Drive 
  pipe 
  to 
  limestone 
  

  

  77. 
  feet 
  

  

  Top 
  of 
  salt 
  sand 
  j 
  

  

  at 
  305 
  

  

  Bottom' 
  of 
  salt 
  sand 
  

  

  455 
  

  

  Top 
  of 
  big 
  red 
  shale 
  

  

  485 
  

  

  Bottom 
  of 
  big 
  red 
  shale 
  

  

  675 
  

  

  Cased 
  to 
  

  

  513 
  

  

  Top 
  Niagara 
  

  

  710 
  

  

  Top 
  Clinton 
  

  

  1085 
  

  

  Top 
  Medina 
  

  

  1205 
  

  

  Flow 
  of 
  gas, 
  enough 
  to 
  

  

  

  light 
  

  

  1254 
  

  

  Gray 
  Medina 
  (?) 
  

  

  2030 
  

  

  Red 
  Medina 
  

  

  2140 
  

  

  All 
  gray 
  

  

  2175 
  

  

  