REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 



rill 



Top chocolate sand 

 Bottom chocolate sand 



Feet 

 at 1257 

 at 1273 



Bottom of well 



Feet 

 at 1293 



The well gave an initial production of 25 barrels a day. 



Wellsville 



Several wells have been sunk in the immediate vicinity of 

 Wellsville, but none of these have been profitable. A well 1000 

 feet deep on the Bentley farm has about 50 feet of good sand 

 with a small show of gas, oil and salt water at 700 feet. Two 

 wells have been drilled at Riverside, both being unproductive. 



H. R. Elliot also furnishes the following record of a well bored 

 for the Adams oil co. on lot 103, Wellsville township, 4 miles 

 southeast of Wellsville. 



Feet Feet 

 Conductor 32 Broken sand from 1270 to 1305 



Casing to 476 Second pay oil sand 1305 to 1318 



Top gas sand at 1215 Depth of well 1347 



Top oil sand, containing also 

 some gas at 1258 



The well was shot with 200 quarts of nitroglycerine. At first 

 it produced 35 or 40 barrels, but it soon fell to three. 



Well no. 6, 



H. R. 



Drilled August 1897. 



Feet 



Conductor 32 

 Casing 323 

 Sand at 1112 



Started at 20 to 25 barrels. 



Yeager farm 



ELLIOT 



Feet 



Top oil sand 1253 

 Bottom oil sand 1264 

 Total depth 1302% 



Andover gas and oil field 



This field lies mostly to the east and southeast of Andover, 

 partly in Allegany and partly in Steuben county. Two producing 

 sands are found, the upper being known as the " Penney " and 

 the lower as the " Fulmer Valley " sand. The lower produces, 



