Gas-]Vcll Scctio/is in Central Nczv York. — Prosser. 137 
of the Birdseye limestone and the first one of the Calciferous 
formation probably belongs in the Birdseye, although it seems 
rather improbable that all of the 30 feet is in this limestone. 
To the north of Newport, some 12 miles north of Ilion, 32^ 
feet of Birdseye and transitional Birdseye limestone have been 
measured.* 
At Utica, by the bank of the Erie canal, the Central New 
York Pottery Co. drilled a well to a depth of about 860 feet, 
but unfortunately no samples of the drillings were saved. Mr. 
Charles N. White, the company's manager, reported to me 
that the bed rock was reached at a depth of 61 feet ; the Tren- 
ton limestone at 543 feet, which was 303 feet in thickn-ess, 
113 feet of which was fossil limestone, and the well was drilled 
6 feet into the Calciferous sandrock. Four small veins of gas 
were struck in the Trenton limestone and plenty ^of salt water. 
The mouth of the well is about 400 feet A. T. 
Several wells have been drilled in Rome for natural gas, 
and a set of samples from the one drilled by the Rome Brass 
and Copper Company was kindly sent me by Dr. W. L. Kings- 
ley. The mouth of this well is in the company's yard near the 
level of the Central railroad and the Mohawk river and is 
known as the second Rome well. 
SECTION OF THE ROME WELL.f 
(Mouth of 
well approximately 445 feet A. 
T.) 
NO. OF 
DEPTH 
SAMPLE 
IN FEET 
DESCRIPTION OE SAMPLE 
FORMATION 
I 
I-16 
Soil and marl. 
Drift 
2 
16-30 
Clay. 
Drift 
3 
30 
Soil and gravel. 
Drift 
4 
95 
Mainly greenish to bluish 
sandstone with some chips 
of slightly reddish ss. 
Gravel. 
Drift 
5 
I07-II7 
Bluish shale and ss., with 
})lenty of clay. 
Drift 
*Ibid., pp. 627-629. 
tWhiic this paper is passing through the press a report on "Petroleum 
and Natural Gas in New York" (Bull. N. Y. State Museum, vol. 6, No. 
30) by Dr. Edward Orton has apj)eared, in which is a condensed section 
of the Rome well (see pp. 480, 481). 
