THE MINING AND QUARRY INDUSTRY 



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Silver Creek, the South Shore Gas Co. and the Silver Creek Gas & 

 Improvement Co. opened several wells during 1904 which were 

 quite productive, the gas being found in the Medina at a depth of 

 about 1700 feet. The output is consumed at Silver Creek, Forest- 

 villc and Dunkirk. Two wells were drilled at Brocton by the 

 Brocton Gas & Fuel Co. The Medina sandstone was encountered 

 at a depth of 2225 feet and one well yielded 10,000 cubic feet daily, 

 while the second gave only a small flow of sulfurous gas from the 

 Devonic strata. 



Erie county contains several fields. A few successful wells have 

 been put down within the limits of Buffalo. East Aurora, Collins, 

 North Collins and Springville in the southern part produce small 

 quantities. Since 1889 a field has been opened east of Buffalo, in 

 the towns of Cheektowaga, Amherst, Lancaster, Clarence, Alden 

 and Newstead, which is now the most active in the State. The gas 

 is found in the Medina sandstone. The wells are quite prolific, 

 yielding as high as 1,000,000 cubic feet daily. They are connected 

 by pipe lines with Buffalo, Tonavvanda, Akron, Batavia, Lancaster, 

 Depew, Honeoye Falls and other towns in the vicinity. 



hi Genesee county there are a few wells at Corfu. A small out- 

 put is made at Attica, Wyoming co. ; Avon, Lima and Caledonia, 

 Livingston co. ; and in the towns of East Bloomfield and West 

 Bloomfield, Ontario co. 



Farther east in ( hiondaga county, a limited supply is obtained at 

 Baldwinsville and Phoenix. An interesting occurrence of gas is 

 reported at Warner in this county where a well was drilled in 1897 

 to a depth of 3525 feet. No flow was encountered at the usual 

 horizon, the Trenton, but a pool was struck near the bottom in 

 what has been regarded as the Potsdam sandstone. The well is 

 now about exhausted. 



Oswego county produces a small quantity of gas, the wells being 

 located at Fulton, Pulaski and Sandy Creek. This marks the pres- 

 ent eastern limit of the gas fields of the State. 



Production. The value of the output of natural gas in 1905, 

 as compiled from the returns of producers and pipe line operators, 

 was $607,000. The output in 1904 was valued at $552,197. show- 

 ing an increase of $54,803 for the year. At the rate of 23 cents a 

 thousand cubic feet, which was the average selling price reported 

 by the leading distributing companies for the two years, the esti- 

 mated quantity of natural gas produced was 2,639,130,000 cubic 

 feet in 1905 and 2,399,987,000 cubic feet in the previous year. 



