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Total depth 739 feet 



First gas at 290 feet 



Second gas at 611 feet 



Third gas at • 632 feet 



The well had an original confined gas pressure of 140 pounds 

 which has since increased to 185. 



The Pope Hollow well, drilled in 1895, was 1800 feet deep. 

 It contained a 20 foot layer of sand at 500 feet, which, after 

 being shot, gave a small showing of both gas and oil. 



Mr Keith has also drilled a well 900 feet deep on the farm of 

 Dennis M. Jenks, 2 miles north of Kennedy. It proved barren 

 save a little gas at 900 feet. 



The old well owned by Broadhead & Son at Jamestown was 

 sunk to the depth of 5000 feet. 



Cattaraugus county 



There has been comparatively little exploration for gas in 

 Cattaraugus county within the past three years. In the fall 

 of 1902 a test well was drilled on the farm of Ezekiel Kelly, 

 lot 57, township of Mansfield, 1 mile northwest of the village 

 of Little Valley. The well had a total depth of 900 feet. Gas 

 with an estimated flow of 110,000 cubic feet a day w T as found at 

 575 feet. It has not yet been utilized. 



A group of five wells with an aggregate production of three 

 million feet a day has been drilled on lots 52, 60 and 68 in the 

 southwest part of Ked House township. The field, on lots 5, 6, 

 13 and 14 in the same township, known as the Red House gas 

 field, is exhausted and is practically abandoned. There are no 

 other changes of importance, either in the source or distribu- 

 tion of gas in this county. 



In 1897 the Mud Creek Oil & Gas Co. drilled a well on the 

 Walker farm at Mud creek, town of Randolph. At a depth of 

 500 feet gas was found in a 50 foot stratum of good sand. The 

 well was left open for a month, then cleaned, and 30 days later 

 showed a pressure of 240 pounds. Another well, drilled by the 

 same company on the Goodspeed farm 100 rods northeast of 

 the first, found a flow of oil and a small supply of sand at the 

 same depth as in the other. Both wells are now abandoned. 



