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Report of the State Geologist. 



Half a mile further up the same .creek a well was drilled for oil, about 

 the year 1875. No record of this is preserved, but it is reported that gas 

 was found at 900 feet, with sufficient pressure to throw water over the top 

 of the derrick. 



Well at J'ijx Greek, near West Falls. This well was put down in 

 1865, to the depth of about 1,000 feet. Mr. A. L. Henshaw, who furnished 

 me these facts, says that the pressure at first was sixty pounds. The 

 well is qow full of water from which the gas bubbles up vigorously, furnish- 

 ing about a cubic foot a minute. Another shallower well was bored a little 

 further up the creek, but struck no gas. Surface gas escapes from fissures 

 in the bed of the creek in several places. One crack furnishes enough for 

 four or five gas-burners. 



Tin Oold&n Well. (Record by Mr. A. H. Hayes.) This well is located 

 one-fourth mile south of the village, on the west side of the creek. It was 

 put down by a stock company of which Mr. Hayes was an officer. ( fas was 

 found at 300 or 400 feet in sufficient quantity, as Mr. Hayes thinks, to supply 

 tlie village with fuel. From the description of the flow, it appears that the 

 w ell must have been a good one, but the gas was allowed to go to waste. 

 Here, also, there is much surface gas. A water well fifty feet deep, in the 

 village, furnishes enough gas to keep a street-lamp going all the time. 



Another well, on the hill between ('olden and Boston, was bored about 

 the time the ('olden well was sunk. Mi-. A. L. Henshaw visited this while 

 drilling was in progress and saw the gas burning. From his description I 

 should judge the flow was not large. 



Wells at PatcJien, l><>xt<>n totvnsldp. Two wells are located here, one 

 in the village near the creek a short distance south of the bridge, and the 

 other some fifty rods further up the creek. Mr. John II. W ait, w ho worked 

 upon the well while it was being drilled, furnishes me the following 

 information : 



Well No. 1 was sunk on the Wait farm, to the depth of 762 feet, by a 

 company from Oil Creek, Pa., about the year 18(50. A strong vein of gas 

 was found a1 272 feet, w hich escaped with such force as to stop drilling for 

 three days. The pressure is described as sufficient to lift two men seated 

 upon the cuds of a plank laid across the top of the casing. 



Later on another company, from Oil Creek, leased farms in this vicinity 

 and put dow n well No. 2. At 320 feet they struck gas, but the flow was not 

 so strong a- in well No l. At 940 feet they struck a hard rock (the 



