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half miles from the southern limit of the outcrop. Pressure in No. 2 is 

 said to be 620 pounds per square inch. A company is now being formed to 

 pipe the gas through the village of Depew. 



Alden Wells. Five wells have been sunk here, four of which are started 

 upon the upper part of the Marcellus shale near its junction with the 

 Hamilton, and the other a little farther south upon the Hamilton shale. A 

 pocket of gas was found in one well sufficiently strong to lift the tools from 

 the well. Mr. J. W. Stearns thinks this was above the Corniferous lime- 

 stone. The largest supply was found in the Medina. About 100 houses 

 are supplied with fuel from these wells and at present there is no appre- 

 ciable diminution in the pressure. The following data regarding one well 

 were furnished by Mr. Best, who has charge of gas distribution at Alden : 



Soil, 38 feet. 



Slate (casing), 220 " 



Top of Medina, . " 1,190 " 



Medina, 90 " 



Pocket, 20 8 



Well drilled to 1,300 feet. 

 The top of this well is about thirty feet below the level of the railroad 

 station. 



Lancaster Wells. A well was sunk a few years ago on the left bank of 

 Cayuga creek, where it begins to widen to form lake Como. Mr. James 

 Payne informs me that the drill stopped in red shale at 1,350 feet. No gas 

 of any consequence was found. Another boring, said to be about 300 feet 

 deep, was made on the Lawson road about a mile south of the Como well. 

 A little gas was reported here, but I have not been able to verify the report. 

 A well was also drilled on the Borden road about eighty rods south of the 

 Buffalo and Lancaster electric railroad. Mr. James Woodring, who bored the 

 well, informs me that the well was 1,200 feet deep. The white Medina was 

 here but four feet thick and no gas was found. These wells are located a 

 little above the Stafford limestone of the Marcellus. 



Well at Gwdenmlle. July 1885.* 



Marcellus shale, 60 feet. 



Limestones (Corniferous and water-lime), .... 205 " 

 Salina shales to Niagara, 800 " 



• See Keport State Geologist, 1885. 



