Gas- Well Sections in Ce?itral Neiv York. — Prosser. 1 5 5 
nients. In the Spaulcling well No. i on the south 
side of the river, the top of the Medina is at 740 feet and the 
Trenton at 2,376 feet, which was entered to a depth of no feet. 
In the Binning well the top of the Trenton limestone was 
reached at a depth of 2,255 ^^et and gas at 2,535 ^^^t, which was 
the bottom of the well. A partial set of samples was saved 
by Mr. Erwin Fairbanks from the Bigelow well, located one 
mile north of Baldwinsville, from which the following section 
was constructed. 
The above record is not very valuable because the majority 
of the samples are so far apart and are peculiarly numbered, 
still some parts of the record serve as a check on that of the 
former well. It seems pretty sure from Mr. Fairbanks' notes'* 
that the Medina sandstone was reached in the Bigelow well 
at a depth of 510 feet and the Trenton limestone at 2,205. On 
comparing the two records it will be seen that in the Talmage 
well it is 1,630 feet from the top of the Medina sandstone to 
the top of the Trenton limestone, while in the Bigelow well it 
is 1,695 fsst. Again, sample No. 9, from the Bigelow well, 
clearly shows the Utica shale, and if this sample represented 
the 155 feet, as reported, then the Utica shale has that thick- 
ness in this well. Acording to the report the well penetrated 
the Trenton limestone to a depth of 590 feet. 
Natural' gas in large quantities has been obtained from a 
number of wells near Baldwinsville, as for example, Monroe 
well No. I was reported by the Baldwinsville Heat and Light 
Co. as yielding 2,000,000 cu. ft. per day in September, 1897, and 
in 1898 the Kendall well was reported by Mr. M. C. Pierce to 
yield 1,500,000 cu. ft. per day and the Binning well No. 2. 
when it was gotten under control, 8,000,000 cu. ft. per day. 
The late Dr. Edward Orton, the well-known natural gas and 
oil specialist, prepared a report upon the Baldwinsville field 
so it will not be necessary to consider that part of the subject 
in this paper. 
In the fall and winter of 1897-98 a deep well was drilled, 
about lYi miles north of Auburn, and 22 miles southwest of 
Syracuse, from which an interesting set of samples was saved, 
and I am indebted to Mr. E. C. Munroe, of I'aldwinsvillc, for 
those dc cribed below. 
