The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-05-25

fireplace, the gas fame coming in d.
rect contact with the boiler. Tho
force of the flame was SO strong when
turned on three-fourths full force that
1t shook the boilers and made roar
almost deafening. Besides the Haag
gas well, four miles northwest of Neo-
desha, there is the Laverty gas well,
two and half miles northwest, which
promises as much as the Haag well has
performed. The other gas wells near
Neodesha are the Shoemaker, four
miles north, and the Duggan, two miles
east, but they do not compare with the
Haag and the Laverty wells.
The most prolific oil field the world
has known was at Bradford, Pa, were
12s, ,00O, 900 barrels of oil were pumped
from 1900 wells The field is now
practically abandoned by large opera
tors for the capacity of the $4,000 wells
has dwindled to about IL 900 barrels a
day, enabling only small operators to
make money by their operation. The
Neodesha wells are not SO good as the
Bradford wells were, nor does the
crude Neodesha product produce as
much oil, but the wells are better than
the Lima, O., wells both in quantity
and quality, and that is saying great
deal.
There is condition in the early
leases of Guffey & Galley, covering
some $4,000 acres of land, that the firm
shall build a refinery at Neodesha or
forfeit a certain sum, said to be $50, 900,
to the city. Superintendent McGhee
does not care to say when this condi-
tion will be complied with, nor will he
give an estimate of the capacity of the
wells, the quality of the oil, or the
plans of the company he represents.
1t is plain, however, that Guffey &
Galley believe there is big thing in
Neodesha oil for they continue to
spend money hand over fist and are
getting all the leases they can.
Here is form of the lease in a gen
eral way, some slight changes having
been made in pen and ink, in some:
This lease, made between. party OF
the first part and. parties of the
ond part, witneSseth, that in consideration OF
one dollar, the receipt of which is hereby ac-
knowledged, and the further consideration OF
drilling test wells in. county, Kansas
for oil and gas. party of the first part
| hereby agrees with the parties of the second
part, that they shall have the exclusive right
for ten years from this date to enter upon and
operate for oil and gas all that certain tract Of
land In. ............ township. County
Kansas, described as follows, to-wit:
...... Section. Town Range Acres.
...... Section. Town Range Acres.
Containing. acres, more or less, upon the fol-
lowing terms and conditions: Second party
shall deliver in tanks at the wells to the first
party without cost, one-tenth Of all oil pro-
duced on these premises, and pay the market
price in cash for the same If first party should
SO desire and fifty dollars per year for each ga.
well of sufficient capacity to utilize when used
| off the premises. Said second party are to pa!
| all the damages Of any kind that may arise by
reason Of their operations thereon. If oil OF
| gas is found in paying quantities in any vel
| drilled the privilege Of operating shall con
tinue as long as oil and gas shall be produced
in paying quantities, and when abandoned fol
such purposes the grant shall cease, and M
longer be binding on either party. No wells Il
be located on cultivated land without the con
sent of the party of the first part. If gas 1.
found on the above described land the party o.
the first part is to have the use Of the same fo
domestic purposes free. The second party re
serves the right to remove all machinery ant
fixtures placed thereon by them. In case NJ
oil or gas well is sunk these premises within
| two years from this date, this lease shall be
come absolutely null and void unless the sec
ond party shall elect from year to year to con
| tinue this lease by paying or depositing to thu
credit Of the first party each year in advance
| ........... dollars at. bank
| until well is completed on these premises e.
|
| It is understood by and between the first ast
second parties of this agreement that all con
ditions between the parties hereto shall exts nj
| to their heirs, executors and assigns. We d.
hereby acknowledge that we did sign the fore
going instrument and that it is our free act ant
deed for the uses and purposes herein named.
In witness OF which we hereunto set our hand
and seal the. day Of A. d. 1893
Witnesses: Seal
| ....................... Seal
If present promises are fulfilled IL
another year one of the most pict
uresque valleys in Kansas will be dis
figured by the black tops of hundreds
| of greasy derriclxs, which have already
begun to stick their heads above tn,
foliage of the timber along the two
| rivers. From Little Bear mound, The
highest land in Wilson county, neal
| Neodesha, one can see de1ricks her,
and there in every direction marrine
the beauty of landscape unequaled
| There is tradition that Little Bear
the brave chief of the Osages, wen
into Neodesha one day twenty years
ago and ate of dried apples so greedily
that he swelled up and died when h,
| drank water afterward. At any rat.
Little Bear died and his braves carried
| him to the summit of the mound, placed
his body in a sitting posture with hi
face to the setting sun, and then pileC
stones around it. Some men in Neo
desha, who were then young, are sait
to have Little Bears bones to-day. 4
sumac bush grows on his grave and liz
ards and tarantulas crawl under tn,
| stones where his bones ought to be.
SIX CITIES DEVASTATED.
| Terrible Work of the Recent Earthquak
| In South America.
| NEW YORK, May 1S.-Charles Puglar
one of the passengers on the steamship
Philadelphia, of the Red D. line, which
has arrived from Curacao, says that b.
the terrible earthquake in the interio
of the state of Maracaibo, Ecuador
April 81, more than half of the peopl,
of six cities were killed and much prop
| erty destroyed. In the cities of Meri
da, Valara and Timopes the shoc2
lasted nearly two minutes, and house
tumbled down. In the city of Merid;
$50 soldiers, lodged in the barracks on
the outskirts of the city, were killed