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Report of the State Geologist. 



A part of the gas from the Zoar field is piped into Springville, where 

 it supplies about 120 families. The company controlling it is called the 

 Springville Natural Gas Co., of which the officers are : Dr. Brooks, president ; 

 H. Leland, treasurer; F. D. Smith, secretary. There is also a board of 

 directors, of which Mr. M. Mclntyre is a member. 



The Springville Well. (From Mr. Mook, driller; well contains twenty- 

 five feet of rock salt.) 



Blue sandstone and shales, 1,800 feet. 



Limestones, 750 " 



Salt, at 2,525 " 



Well bored to 2,550 " 



At Gowanda, on the Cattaraugus county side of the creek, a well was 

 sunk, in the eighties, by Mr. Silas Vinton, who gave to me the following 

 record : 



•Soil, 6 feet. 



Shale, 450 " 



Sand, with oil and gas, 4 " 



Shale to " second sand," where more oil and gas 



were found, 450 " 



Shale, 390 " 



Hard rock (Corniferous and water-lime), .... 400 " 



1,700 feet. 



Mr. Charles S. Howland informs me that this well was deepened in 

 February, 1889. The Corniferous limestone was reached at 1,390 feet. 

 Drilling was continued to 2,251 feet, where salt water and mud were found 

 and the well abandoned. The well, when cleaned of water, gives gas 

 enough to fill a two-inch pipe with a light pressure. This well is located 

 near the creek, about 200 yards east of the station. 



Another well was drilled over thirty years ago on the Erie county side 

 < »f the creek within the village limits. Locally it is known as the " Trunk 

 Well."' Gas w as found at about 860 feet, and the well was drilled about 

 fort) feet deeper. This furnished gas for a house for several years, but is now 

 " filled up with a substance resembling glass and nearly as hard." 



* Vide Report State Geologist 1HRV 



