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In piping the village no expense was spared that was counted 



necessary to the most satisfactory service. In the size of the 

 pipe, the quality of the connections, the regulators, etc. the best 

 rather than the cheapest were in all cases selected. 



It will be remembered that though two wells had been already 

 drilled, there was not a large quantity of gas that could be 

 depended on. The first well was a failure and the second 

 well imperfectly cased, but both had proved the region to be 

 gas^producing territory. To fill the pipes now laid in the streets 

 of Pulaski new wells must be drilled, and Mr Tollner next set 

 about this part of the work. He undertook it in the same spirit 

 in which he carried on the piping of the town, paying full price 

 for all the work, and neglecting to avail himself of the economies 

 which competition would have insured. 



When his first well was completed, the gas found in it was 

 at once turned into the village lines and utilized by householders 

 who had prepared their dwellings for it. 



Mr Tollner drilled 20 wells and bought one that had been 

 drilled by outside parties (the Eastern oil co. of Buffalo) within 

 the territory which he occupied. The driller in charge of 

 all of his later work was Mr W. O. Potter who came in from 

 the Pennsylvania oil fields. From him and from other drillers 

 and from the samples of drillings saved In the process of the 

 work, the following general section can be taken as embodying 

 the principal facts as to the Pulaski wells. The same section 

 will serve for much of Oswego county. 



Pleistocene Drift 0- 96 ft 



( Pulaski shale ... . 200- 250 



rt . . . Utica shale 100- 250 



Orclovician .-..<„, 



I Irenton limestone 600 



[Calciferous 200 



( Greenish sand (Potsdam ?).... 10- 40 



«. . . J Black limestone (called "black 



Cambrian \ „ . • .>„ . ■ 



granite by some drillers) .... 20- 40 



Greenish sand 5- 10 



Archaean . Red (orthoclase) granite struck at 1400-1500 



The Trenton limestone is struck in this field at an average 

 depth of 550 feet. Most of the Pulaski wells are drilled to a 

 depth of 1000 feet, but enough have been carried to the granite 



