Bulletin of the Geological Society of America Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...at Beeton. where in a soil sandstone just beneath the surface deposits a small quantity occurred. The Clinton as a Gas-producer.--The Clinton in a small number of wells has afforded large quantities of gas, the most marked instances being those in Welland county, known as Near's, Reebe's and Hopkins' number 2, each of which produced 400,000 cubic feet per day, and the Mutual company's well, which produced 1,500,000 cubic feet. These wells are all in that district wherein the Medina is so productive, a fact that rather tends to suggest that the gas is adventitious. Outside of this county the Clinton has not as yet produced a single cubic foot of gas. Exception must, of course, be taken to this statement if it be proved that the productive horizon in Essex county is in that formation. The Niagara as a Gas-producer.--In Welland county the Niagara also is a large producer of gas, well number 22 of the Provincial company affording 1,850,000 cubic feet per day from the limestones of the upper part of the formation, while in a well sunk a few miles north of this, at Niagara Falls South, a flow of 50,000 cubic feet was obtained in the shales beneath the limestone. OTHER OAS-BEARIXQ FORMATIONS. There now remain to be spoken of only three formations which have afforded gas, though only as yet in small quantities. They are the Onondaga, the Trenton, and a sandstone of age anterior to the latter. GAS FROM THE TRENTON AND ONONDAGA. 230 The Onondaga as a Gas-producer.---The occurrence of pis in the Onondaga, even in the small quantities noted, is unique. At Myth, Huron county, and in the midst of a considerahle nuniber of wells hored in the salt region, a well was drilled which afforded, according to the driller, the following record: Surface deposits 104 feet. Limestone...