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public. About four weeks altogether were spent in the field by 

 Dr Ries, and the work during this period was along three lines: 

 first, a more detailed sampling of some of the quarries than was 

 possible in 1S9S with the funds then available, second, visiting 

 some of the lime and cement quarries which had not hitherto 

 been examined, third, the study of the marl deposits of the state. 



Several localities were visited between Glens Falls and Chazy, 

 at which latter locality some new quarries are being opened that 

 may form the basis of a portland cement industry in that region. 

 In addition to notes on the quarries, samples were collected for 

 analysis, and photographs made of the exposures. A number of 

 places were also visited between Littlefalls and Buffalo, being 

 chiefly those where the cement rocks were being worked. Along 

 this same general belt, marl beds were visited, as at Warner, East 

 Jordan, Caledonia. Wayland, Perkinville and Cortland. The out- 

 crops of the Tully limestone in the Finger lake region were also 

 examined. A reconnaissance was also made across the Great 

 swamp from Albion to Batavia in the hope of finding marl de- 

 posits underlying that region. Careful inquiry failed to de- 

 velop the presence of any along that line. Large ones how- 

 ever occur at Clarendon. Another aim has been to examine the 

 localities mentioned by Beck in his report on the mineralogy of 

 the state. Some of these, so far as can be determined, seem to be 

 wrong, others are correct, and some of them have still to be in- 

 vestigated. 



In addition to the work of Dr Ries, Prof. I. P. Bishop, of 

 Buffalo, has been occupied in the collection of data regarding the 

 development of the oil and gas territory in western New York. 

 The investigation embraced a study of new wells bored since 1S9T 

 in northwestern New York, the collection of information regard- 

 ing the supply and permanency of gas in the older fields and a 

 survey of the oil and gas territory in Yates, Schuyler, Steuben 

 and Allegany counties which were not covered by previous re- 

 ports. As far as possible, the amount of gas and the manner of 

 utilizing the supply have been ascertained. A surface map show- 

 ing the extent of the oil pools and gas territory in southern Al- 



