REPORT OK Tilt: DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 1002 I *>5 



The Iroquois Salt Co. of Perry has bored a well near the 

 outlet of Silver lake. No gas was found, but a show of oil was 

 reported. 1 A boring for water on the farm of Paul Armstrong 

 near Perry is said to have shown a small vein of gas. Thin seams 

 of gas-producing rook are not uncommon in shallow wells about 

 2 miles east of Perry. 



At Johnsonburg in the same county a well was completed in 

 October 1902 by J. W. Stearns, of Akron N. Y. In this the 

 drill found, 



Corniferous (Onondaga) limestone at 1230 feet 



Passed through Corniferous (Onondaga) lime- 

 stone at 1430 feet 

 Top of salt at 1853 feet 

 Bottom of- salt at 1893 feet 

 Bottom of well at 1898 feet 

 No gas in the well. 

 Since 1899 a large area of gas territory has been developed in 

 Erie county. The Alden field has been extended westward nearly 

 to Lancaster and is increasingly productive in that direction. 

 The Alden and Batavia Natural Gas Co., 2 which now controls the 

 greater part of this field, has 27 wells, the greater part of which 

 produce from 100,000 to 1,000,000 cubic feet of gas each a day. 

 The company has laid a 6*4 inch main to Batavia by way of 

 Crittenden. At the latter place a branch owned by the Akron 

 Natural Gas Co. takes gas for Akron village to supplement the 

 supply from the Akron wells. My letter to the Batavia office 

 has not been answered, but, from the best information at my 

 disposal, I judge that these lines supply about 1200 taps. The 

 United Natural Gas Co. has also lately drilled eight dry and 

 five producing wells south and east of Lancaster toward Elma 

 and Springbrook. The producing wells give a daily output of 

 200,000 to 750,000 cubic feet each. The gas from these and other 

 local wells is kept in reserve and used only in very cold weather. 

 The main supply for the city of Buffalo is piped from Penn- 

 sylvania. 



1 After lying idle for some months this well was cleaned out and yielded 15 

 barrels or more of petroleum. 



'Office at Batavia; president, Robert Rose; superintendent, C. C. Rose. 



