The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28

miles south of the land rises. You will
find the coal thicker / think you will find
| it heavy enough to mine Between Benton
and Greenwich are the best coal measures
have seen. West of there they are good
as far as the Rock Island railroad. / don't
! find any indication west of the Rock
Island railroad to the river south Of Kechi
station. do not say you will find coal
under all of this land have mentioned, or
| half of it. If you could find it under one
fourth of it you would have big thing.
! have been south of section thirty four.
| I don't find any indications there The
people told me they had found coal in
their wells near the top of the ground.
! That coal drifted their That land is all
drift measures. That coal came out Of the
canon north of Benton and east of there
came down Chisholm creek when the
water went off, when it was made. ! sup
pose you wish to know what | call coal
measures. Ochre-clay; red and yellow, on
! or near the top of the ground tire-clay and
also blue clay, then slate-stone, soap-stone,
is termed slack / seen it very deep in
great quantity near where coal was seven
feet deep. it is around all coal beds; also
black jack, that is slate and sulpher. Very
often inexperienced people get fooled with
it. They call 1t coal when they drill
through it. Scientific men tell US coal is
made from Vegetation. They don't mean
timber, or sunhower, or prairie grass. 1t
is planl that grows under water, it starts
in the spring in the fall il falls Gown
where it grew, and every year it makes a
grain the same as tree does. When that
gets covered up it turns into coal. l have
Prof. Newton's coal measurs; he says
where ever we find those measures we will
find coal / have advised the farmers to
organize company and get coal pros
~ dill &c -LoF kavv kurv
under their farms. / do not want to get
them into trouble. | do advise them
TO get a practical coal geoligest
to do their drilling and one
that can be relied upon and has a good
reputation. To your citizens l will say
that have advised the farmers to pros
pect for coal They say they are too poor;
their crops were poor the last year, and
they are not able to do it. think il they
had help they would take hold of it. l do
not see anything Wichita needs so bad as
she does coal. / have lived in the west
over fifty -four years. l have seen men
that were coal men come along and say,
Here is coal; that coal was not prospected
for forty years, and then coal was found
in great quantities. You have got as fine
Il country and as fine Il city as can be
found in Kansas | never have seen any
place where the country was deficient on
top of the ground but what that deficiency |
was made up under the ground. You |
have no timber. ] think you have coal. /
shall go east in few days My home is |
in Watcher Keoxuk couny Iowa.
Yours respectfully,
JOHN MOOERS.
mfr. Mooers is probably not aware of |
the fact that drills have been put down in |
the territory described by him to the depth |
of thousand feet, and one shaft sunk to |
the depth of six hundred and forty feet. |
Salt and light gas pressure and gypsum,
unending were the sums total and results.
ED. EAGLE