Bishop — Geology of Erie County. 375 



Through white Medina, l,4lo feet. 



Bottom of well 1 ,447 " 



Pocket, 3 7 " 



Titus Well, Windom. (Drilled August 28 to October 21, ls<);>.)* 



Well, 1,314 feet. 



Top sand, 16 " 



Pocket, 3 " 



SaviUe Well 



Depth of well, 1,502 feet. 



Pocket, 16 " 



Top sand, 21 " 



Bedford Well. (Drilled October 17 to December 3, 1895. 260,000 

 cubic feet per day.)* 



Well, 1,230 feet. 



Pocket 38. " 



Top sand, . . 10 " 



Bea/ver Well, Ebenezer. (1,208 feet deep ; good well.)* 



East Aurora village. A well was drilled here between May and 

 October, 1893, to the depth of 1,800 feet, It is located near the railroad 

 tracks about 200 yards south of Main street. A very little gas was found, 

 and also brine which produced, upon evaporation, twenty per cent, of salt. 

 The depth at which they were struck was not ascertained. 



About two miles southwest of East Aurora, on Cazenovia creek, a well 

 was sunk in the eighties, of which the following is a partial record : f 

 Shales (Lower Portage Hamilton and Marcellus), . 695 feet. 

 Corniferous limestone (and water-lime 0, .... 165 " 

 From the above limestones to salt, 605 " 



Saturated brine was found at 1,465 feet, filling the w ell and running 

 over the top. The stratum in which the brine occurs w as reported to be 

 seventy feet thick. No attempt was made to utilize the brine, and the well 

 is now abandoned. At one time considerable gas is said to have escaped 

 from this boring, but at the time of my visit, in August. 1895, the amount 

 w r ould barely support one ordinary gas jet. Surface gas in quantities suffi- 

 cient to burn, bubbles up from crevices in the bed of the creek in several 

 places nearby, and I suppose that the gas found in the well was from the 

 same source, the black shales of the Portage group. 



t See Keport. Slate Geologist (N. Y.), 1885. 



