REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 



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Ontario county 



Records from Walter Wellinan, Friendship (N. Y.) 



In Ontario county, several wells have been bored during 

 1S98-99. One was drilled to the Medina and gave a natural flow 

 of 120.000 cubic feet in 24 hours, with a confined rock pressure 

 of 557 pounds. Another on the Curran Bros.' farm near Aliens 

 Hill gave no gas but struck 60 feet of solid wliite salt at the depth 

 of 1300 feet. A well was being drilled in this field in August 

 1S99. 



Schuyler county 



The officials of the Glen salt co.. at Watkins, refused informa- 

 tion regarding their wells. From an employee I learned that no 

 gas was found. Here the salt is over 200 feet thick. 



In 1S9S a well was started in the middle of the delta at Watkins 

 by another company of which John Clute is manager. This well 

 was sunk to the depth of 1100 feet without reaching the bottom 

 of the drift and was abandoned. The same company was in 

 August 1899 drilling another well on the west side of the out- 

 let near the Northern central railroad depot. At the time of my 

 visit in August it was down S00 feet in rock. 



A third well is being drilled by Daniel Campbell, on the eastern 

 side of the delta. The facts furnished by him are as follows. 



The well was started near bed rock. 



Feet 



Feet 



Soft limestone 40 feet thick at 210 

 Shale to 1230 



Limestone and sand 



with pyrite 20 to 1250 



Black lower Marcellus at 1310 



Sand and lime mixed 



240 feet thick to 1680 



Slate 15 feet thick to 1G95 



Limestone 20 feet thick to 1715 



In slate at 1715 feet at time of my visit. The sample at 1310 

 feet had the characteristics of the lower Marcellus, being black, 

 oily and bituminous. The sample taken at 1350 feet was white, 

 clean quartz sand, hard and compact. Gas with a pressure of 

 100 to 110 pounds was found in this. The sample taken at 1440 

 feet was hard drab limestone. 



Gas also occurs in the well at the sanitarium, of which note 

 was made in Petroleum and natural gas in western New York. 

 (See 17th Rep't state geol. 1897; 51st Rep't N. Y. state museum) 



