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Report of the State Geologist. 



The Getzville Wells. (From Mr. Franklin Getz.) At Getzville, six 

 miles east of Tonawanda, is a group of twenty or twenty-one wells, in 

 eighteen of which gas was found. The best of these have a pressure of 

 about 200 lbs. in twenty minutes. The gas occurs at a depth of 430 to 47.") 

 feet in a soft white rock looking like gypsum. The product of these wells is 

 piped to Tonawanda, supplying 250 families and yielding an income of about 

 $7,000 a year. 



Of this group, five wells are located close together near the station, and 

 the others scattered about within three miles to the north and west. The 

 drift here was twelve feet deep in the thinnest spot through which borings 

 were made, and sixty-nine in the thickest, the latter being near the bed of 

 Ellicott creek. All passed through essentially the same strata, and have 

 similar records, barring slight local differences of dip and location. The 

 following record of Well No. 17, located one mile west of the village, will 

 answer fairly for the "whole group. It was furnished by the contractor who 

 drilled several of the wells, from memoranda made while the well was 

 being sunk. 



Record of Well No. 17, Getzville, JV. Y. (Received from J. H. Lichten- 



burg, driller.) 



Drift, 69 feet, 



Sand and shale, at 100 " 



AVhite sand and shale, " 140 " 



Flint shell (?), " 170 " 



Shale, " 201 " 



Salt water and sand, " 206 " 



Grey sand, " 216 " 



Shale, " 220 " 



Shale and sand, " 225 " 



Red sand, " 230 " 



Fine white sand, " 250 " 



Red sand and shale with sulphur gas, ... " 26.") " 



Bottom of red sand, " 270 " 



Dark sand, " 276 " 



Salt water and saud, " 285 " 



Grey limestone, " 300 " 



Salt water and sand " 328 " 



Red sand " 335 > '4 



