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second sand, while the third sand had a little amber oil, which 

 accumulated to the amount of about a barrel in four or five days. 

 Well no. 2 was 1200 feet deep. 



At the Pleasant Valley wine cellars, Rheims, one deep and two 

 shallow wells have been sunk for water. The deep well was 

 drilled to the depth of 2000 feet but furnished barely enough gas 

 to burn. The record is lost. 



A test well was sunk on the Smith farm half a mile south of 

 Bath in the summer of 1SS2. This well is said by Ashburner 1 to 

 have been 2050 feet deep. Jacob Rauber, of Wellsville, reports 

 it to have been 2012 feet deep. Little gas was found. During 

 the past year (1899) a large area of land near Bath has been 

 leased, on which other wells will be drilled. 



At Lavona a deep boring was made in 1898-99, which appears 

 to have passed below the top of Corniferous limestone. Vincent 

 & Storms of Allentown (N. Y.I have furnished the following. 



Lavona well 



Feet 



Shales and thin sand- 

 stone to 1527 



Brown sandstone with 

 gas enough for the 

 boiler 1527 to 1&44 



Hard flint sand at 1944 



Feet 



Brown shell 10 feet thick 



Flint shell. 6 or 8 feet at 24G0 



Black shale, Marcellus 



(?) 40 feet to2SG2 



Corniferous limestone ( ?) at 2862 



Total depth 3005 



The last two screws were white sand in which brine occurred, 

 filling the hole and running over the top. 



It is probable that the white sand was the Oriskany and that 

 the 143 feet immediately above belonged in the Helderberg — 

 Corniferous group. 



A little gas was found at 120 feet before the casing was put 

 in, but none was found afterward. 



A well was being drilled at Harvard by J. Rauber, of Wells- 

 ville, in August 1899. 



The Corning fuel and heating co., F. D. Kingsbury, president, 

 drove a well near Corning in the latter part of 1899. The drillers 



'Ashburner. Petroleum and natural gas in New York. 1882. p. 54. 



