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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Buel well. Hume 



A well was drilled in the sunmier of 1899 on the Buel farm 1 

 mile west of Hume. The following record is furnished by A. D. 

 Congdon, of Clarksville (N. Y.) driller. Measurements above 

 1400 feet were taken with a steel tape. Below that the records 

 were by cable measurements. 



Feet 



Feet 



Soil 



35 to 



35 



Light colored shale 



20 to 1945 



Shale without shells or 







Hard flint 



15 



1960 



sand 



225 



260 



Soft, light colored shale 



20 



19S0 



Shells and slate 



20 



280 



Flinty with shells, very 







Shale 



121 



401 



hard 



22 



2002 



Wet sand 



1 



402 



Dark shale 



124 



2126 



Salt water 



13 



415 



Very dark shale 



4S 



2174 



Shale 



350 



765 



White shale 



206 



2380 



Gray sand, even and 







Dark shale with occa- 







not hard 



10 



785 



sional very hard shell 



170 



2550 



Shale 



15 



800 



Shale and shells, each 







Gray sand with a little 







screw containing 







gas and show of oil 



255 



1055 



some sand 



200 



2750 



Shale with occasional 







Hard gray and brown 







light shell and some 







sand or limestone 



90 



2840 



gas 



at 



1055 



Clear rock salt 



60 



2900 



Soft brown shale 



22 to 1177 



Soft, blue and red 







Soft sand with gas 



15 



1192 



mixed shale which 







Soft sand 



35 



1227 



caved 



115 



3015 



Sand mixed with dark 







(Salt and shale below it cased 







shale and show of oil 



7 



1227 



off to stop caving) 







Brown shale without a 







Blue and red shales, 







break 



323 



1550 



inclined to cave 



311 



3326 



Light colored shale 



150 



1700 



Stopped in red and blue 







Very dark shale 



190 



1890 



shales 



at 



3326 



Very hard flint rock 



35 



1925 









A thin layer of mixed salt and shale was found at 3150 feet. 

 A hard spot occurred between 3015 and 3023 feet. The well was 

 practically barren of gas. 



New Hudson 



J. FOX, ORAMEL 



Two wells have been bored. Well no. 1 had 



Feet I Feet 

 Second sand with gas at about 750 Depth of well 1203 

 Third sand, 30 feet, with oil, at 

 about 1073 



