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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



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Drift 



Feet 

 to 194 



Light colored slate 

 Black slate 

 Shale (?) and sand 

 Well was drilled 



Feet 

 to 50 



Blue slate 



Light colored slate 



Black slate 



500 

 150 

 125 



to 1150 



TO 



20 



Gas was found at the depth of 1106 feet, with a pressure of 350' 

 pounds. The horizon appears to be about that of the Encrinal 

 limestone of the Hamilton group. The same horizon furnishes 

 a small amount of gas in other borings in Erie county. 



The supply of gas was estimated by the driller at the start ta 

 be about 650,000 cubic feet a day. 



The supply has now fallen off to about one fourth of this 

 amount, and is insufficient for the boilers, but is used in the 

 ranges, etc. It is purposed to drill another well near the build- 



in the vicinity of Zoar and Springville slight additions to the 

 gas territory have been made. 



The Springville natural gas co. has drilled two wells, both 

 in the Zoar district. One on the Tallman farm, on the left bank 

 of the creek, was barren. The other, located between the Fry 

 and Elmer White wells (see map in author's paper, Rep't state 

 geol. 1S95) struck a good flow of gas in the waterline at the base 

 of the Corniferous. M. Mclntyre informs me that the rock 

 pressure was 400 pounds with an estimated daily production of 

 2,000,000 cubic feet a day. 



B. F. Whiting, of Springville, completed a barren well in May 

 1900. The location was on the Harvey farm 5 miles east of the 

 village. The Corniferous limestone was found at about 2000 

 feet and had a thickness of 200 feet. Total depth of well 2300 

 feet. 



Michael McTntyre furnishes the following record of a well 

 known as the " Boro " well, drilled in 1899 on the Johnson farm 

 1| miles northeast of Collins station and 3 miles northwest of 

 Collins Center. 



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