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pounds pressure in fifteen minutes and 142 pounds maximum rock pressure. 

 Six months later it gave 27,600 cubic feet in twenty-four hours, 865 feet 

 from the well, by meter measurement. 



The other wells range from 517 to 565 feet in depth, and show essentially 

 the same geologic conditions as the preceding. All the wells were connected 

 together and the gas piped to the cement works, where it was used as fuel 

 under the boilers and to houses along Main street, supplying in the latter 

 about thirty-five fires. Mr. Bennett informs me that the gas was measured 

 for one season and a daily record kept of the amount consumed. The meter 

 showed from 58,000 to 80,000 cubic feet per day, 65,000 cubic feet being, in 

 his opinion, a fair average. The total amount which passed through the 

 meter during the season was 18,321,600 cubic feet. 



The core of Well No. 1 is now in the possession of the Buffalo Society 

 of Natural Sciences. 



The Jefferson and Best streets group. In the vicinity of Jefferson and 

 Best streets is a group of thirteen wells which were at one time very pro- 

 ductive, but are now- partly filled with water and give very little gas. The 

 first of these was drilled in 1889 by Gerhard Lang, on his property at the 

 northeast corner of Jefferson and Best streets. This proving successful, he 

 afterwards drilled three more, two of which were good. One of these w ells 

 supplied two boilers at his brewery for a year. After that the pressure 

 gradually decreased and at present all four wells are abandoned. 



In the same year, Mr. George Rochefort drilled two wells on the south- 

 east corner of the same streets, opposite Lang's property. These w ere about 

 1,000 feet deep. Well No. 1 furnished fuel and lights for his brewery, 

 running four boilers and a malt-kiln, and displacing about thirty tons of coal 

 a day. The gas from Well No. 2 was piped to private houses. Mr. Roche- 

 fort informs me that the pressure in Well No. 1 was, at the start. 525 pounds, 

 and in Well No. 2, 490 pounds.* At present the pressure is about seventy- 

 five pounds. According to Professor F. W. Barrow s, one of these w ells w as 

 800 feet deep, and the other 1,100 feet. 



Mr. C. Schuler, near the southwest corner of Best and Jefferson streets, 

 has a well which was drilled about the same time as the Rochefort wells. It 

 is about 1,000 feet deep and at one time yielded a fair amount of gas. At 

 present it is full of water and furnishes only gas enough for one house. 



Four other wells were drilled on lots fronting on Jefferson, between Best 

 and High streets, known respectively as the Steffan, Weppner, Everson and 



* A record obtained by Professor Barrows in 1890. gives pressure at that time as 200 pounds and 150 pounds. 



