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Report of the State Geologist. 



Well No. 1 on the Bradsha/io fa rm, near Coomer P. O., District 13, Lot 36, 

 town of Newfane, Niagara county, N. Y. (Record from Mr. E. Coste.) 

 Well begun in red shales of the Medina group. 

 Trenton, . " . . . at 1,435 feet. 



Continued .... to 2,115 " ...... 680 feet. 



Calciferous sandrock, to 2,125 " 10 " 



Laurentian, ... at 2,125 " 



Drilled into Laurentian, 9 " 



Depth of well, . . . 2,134 feet. 



Well No 2 (drilled January 4, 1892 ; started on the red Medina. Record 

 from Mr. E. Coste.) 



Drive pipe, 24 feet. 



Red Medina, dark Hudson river and Utica 

 shales, ....... to 1,200 feet. 



Trenton, 1,200-1,910 " . . 710 " 



Calciferous, . . '. . . 1,910-1,930 " . . 20 " 

 Hydromica and dark green schists of the Archean, 



from 1,930-1,980 feet. . . 50 " 



No Potsdam sandstone was recognized. This well had a little gas, from 

 1,912 to 1,918 feet. Cased to 243 feet, and was dry after that. 



Record of Well <tt Fulton, N. Y. (Mr. J. W Stearns, driller.) 



Drift, 43 feet. 



Red sand, to ' 690 



(A little gas at 320 and 370 feet.) 



Oswego grey limestone, from 690 to 1,070 " 



Sand and limestone, " 1,200 " 



Limestone and shale, " 1,460 " 



Black shale " 1,640 " 



Top of Trenton, " 1,640 " 



Gas, 1,680 " 1,685 " 



Gas, at 1,865 " 



Gas, " 1,875 " 



Gas, " 1,900 " 



Drilled to 1,935 " 



A well in the village of Canandaigua, N. Y., has fifty-one feet of rock 

 •-alt, according to Mr. James Woodring, of Buffalo, who sunk the well. 



A w ell w as also put down on the Indian Reservation at Versailles, N. Y., 

 to the depth of 216 feet. No gas w as found, but good water was obtained. 



