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The Lancaster-Depew Natural Gas Co. (J. W. Stearns presi- 

 dent, 98 White building, Buffalo) has found a productive field 

 of undetermined extent at Bowmansville. At present (October 

 1902) the company has four wells with an average production 

 each of 250,000 cubic feet a day. The gas is carried to Lancaster 

 and Depew in a 4 inch main and is now being distributed. The 

 Lancaster Light and Conduit Co. (E. Fevler manager, Lancaster) 

 is also piping in gas to the same village from two or more wells 

 located in Last Lancaster toward Town Line. 



On account of the decreasing productiveness in the home wells, 

 the Clarence Gas Co. began a search for gas south of that town. 

 In June 1902 a well on the Erisman farm, 3 miles east of Bow- 

 mansville, reached a vein of gas which is said to yield 200,000 

 cubic feet a day. Another well drilled for the same company on 

 the Marley farm, 5 miles east of Bowmansville, in August-Octo- 

 ber 1902. is reported to be good for 300,000 cubic feet a day. In 

 all these wells the gas occurs, as is usual in this county, in the, 

 white or quartzose Medina sandstone. 



In the Getzville group the pressure appears to be diminishing. 

 The Niagara Light. Heat and Power Co. (office, 3 Niagara street, 

 Tonawanda N. Y.) has drilled four new wells since 1895 with 

 unsatisfactory results. One completed in August 1902 produced 

 at the start less than 11,000 cubic feet a day. 



In the city of Buffalo, the small reservoirs of natural gas are 

 nearly exhausted. The Buffalo Cement Co. has six wells which 

 are still producing, the daily output aggregating from 600,000 

 to 700,000 cubic feet. In these wells the pressure is steadily 

 declining. The gas is used entirely for domestic purposes. 



The Richardson group of wells at East Aurora has proved 

 inadequate for the demands of that village and Orchard Park 

 and has passed into the hands of the United Natural Gas 

 Co.. which supplements the local supply from its Pennsylvania 

 main, which is near the latter place. 



At North Collins two new wells were added to the group 

 in 1902, and the supply of gas has been increased. It is hoped 

 that the additions will furnish gas enough for cold weather, at 

 which season in the previous years the old wells have proved 

 inadequate. 



