RETORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 



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Tioga county- 

 Jacob Rauber, of Wellsville, states that a well was put dowu 

 at West Candor about 12 years ago. It was 1200 feet deep and 

 barren. 



Wayne county 



2 miles south of Lyons a well was begun Mar. 9, 1890, and 

 completed early in the spring. No complete record of the well 

 lias been obtained but the following facts were furnished by J. W. 

 Stearns, the contractor, and by Dr Veeder, of Lyons. 



Feet 



Drift 30 

 Red and blue marlytes to 262 



Cased off flowing brine at 2G2 

 Lower red shale at about 400 

 Top of Niagara (?) at 



about 4S0 or ~500 



Feet 



Sulphur gas iu Niagara at 540 

 lied Medina at 900 or 980 



Oswego sand at 2032 



Well completed in 

 black (Utica?) slate at 2344) 



This record is approximately correct. No gas of value was 

 found. 



Wyoming county 



The Attica field has been enlarged by the addition of several 

 new wells. C. B. & L. Benedict have now five wells and are 

 supplying 75 taps. F. C. Stevens has increased the number of 

 bis wells to nine, all within a radius of a mile, and is now at 

 work on the tenth. The wells are at present supplying 275 taps. 



At Bliss a well at one time furnished quite a supply of gas 

 and is still reported as producing. The following record occurs 

 in Bulletin of X. Y. state museum, 1893, v. 3, no. 1. 



Bliss well 



B. D. WHITE 



Altitude of well 1729 A. T. 





Feet 





Feet 



Soil at 



55 



Black and white shale 



2S6 



First gas sand 580 to 



620 



Flint (Corniferous?) 



100 



Rock 



525 



Lime rock and flint, solid 



800 



Second gas and oil sand 



100 



Salt, very fine 



5<5 



Shale and black rock 



400 



Lime rock, solid, to bottom 



at 2956 



Third gas sand 



14 







