REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST rll7 



The flow of a third well on the Bates farm was not measured, 

 but was estimated at a million feet a day. In this the gas waa 

 found about 100 feet below the base of the Marcellus in the water- 

 lime at the base of the Corniferous. \ fourth well, 1800 feet 

 deep, sunk only 250 feet from the first, furnished pnly enough 

 gas for two stoves. Early in 1899 Gaenssler & Fisher bored 

 another well not far from the first, the pressure in which is said 

 to be from GOO to 750 pounds and the flow of which is estimated as 

 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 feet in 21 hours. The gas horizon is 

 thought to be the base of the Corniferous limestone. 



Gaenssler & Fisher's first well supplies the heat and light for 

 the tannery and glue factory, the supply of gas amounting in 

 March 1899 to 9,000,000 cubic feet. The second well supplies the 

 village of Gowanda with fuel and lights. In March 1899 the 

 Gowanda gas co. had 200 meter connections and sold 2,500,000 

 cubic feet of gas in that month. 



Gaenssler & Fisher have also an artesian well 198 feet deep in 

 drift, from which clear water flows five feet above the top of an 

 eight inch pipe. 



On the Erie county side of the creek two new wells have been 

 drilled, and the old Trunk well has been cleaned out and deepened. 

 Of the latter it is reported that it contained oil in greater or less 

 quantity. The well on the Snow lot had an unprofitable show of 

 gas. Michael Mclntyre furnishes the following record of the 

 McMillan well near the cemetery. 



McMillan well 





Feet 





Feet 



Drift 



20 



(Corniferous, 1S5 to 



190 feet thick I 



Casing 



196 



Show of oil 



at 1600 



Small show of gas 



at 615 



Top of Niagara 



at 1680 



Second gas 



at 1110 



Total depth 



1720 



Top of Corniferous 



at 1410 







Two other wells have been sunk on the Cattaraugus county 

 side within a half mile of the tannery. One of them was barren, 

 and the other is, at date, unfinished. 



