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Report of the State Geologist. 



On account of the proximity of the test well no detailed record of the 

 rock section in these wells was preserved. 



From Mr. M. E. Caulkins, secretary of the company, it was learned that 

 the first rock was reached at the depth of 429 feet, and the top of the salt at 

 2150 feet. 



The section coincides in all respects with the record of the test well 

 except as to depth, the difference being about 100 feet. 



At the depth of 1685 feet a stratum of quartzite, evidently the Oriskany 

 sandstone, as appears on examination of samples preserved, was encountered 

 and was penetrated with much difficulty, the rock cutting away the edge and 

 corners of the drill very rapidly. 



At 1800 feet, a vein of water was opened that filled the well to the top, 

 which is strong evidence that the movement which produced the foldings and 

 undulations in the rock strata also caused fractures and fissures by means of 

 which surface waters penetrated to a great depth. 



In 1893, a well was drilled to the salt near Watkins, Schuyler county, 

 for the Glen Salt Company, of which Mr. G. C. Otis is president and Mr. 

 C. L. Paar, secretary, by F. J. Adams of Bradford, Pa. 



In 1891, a second and, in 1896, a third well was sunk for the same 

 company. Works having a capacity of 1000 bbls. per day were erected and 

 put in operation in 1891, in which fine table and dairy salt is manufactured 

 by the vacuum pan and grainer processes. 



These wells are located at Salt point (formerly Coal point) on the west 

 side of Seneca lake, one mile from the head. The surface elevation is 450 

 feet A. T., and the geologic horizon is in the shales of the lower part of the 

 Portage group. The dip of the strata is slightly toward the north, apparently 

 about ten feet per mile. 



No detailed record was kept of the changes in the character and color of 

 the rocks encountered in the drilling by which the thickness of the differ- 

 ent formations passed through can be ascertained, only the distances to the 

 top of the salt and to the bottom in each well having been accurately 

 measured. Mr. Paar states that the top of the salt was reached in Well No. 

 1, at 1811 feet from the surface ; drilling was continued sixty-one feet deeper, 

 all in salt except two feet of shale about thirty feet below the top of the bed, 

 which also occurs in the other wells.' 



In Well No. 2, the salt bed was penetrated 102 feet. 



The bottom of well No. 3 is in salt 1927 feet below the surface. 



