The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-31
SPREADING OUR FAME
The Leading Organ of the Glass In
dustry Publishes an Arr
ticIe Telling
THE TRUTH ABOUT lola GAS
This Article Will Reach Every Glass Manu-
facturer in the United States and
Will Do Us
A WORLD OF GOOD.


In its issue of Dec. Is, the COmmOner
and Glassmaker, of Pittsburg, Pa the
organ of the glass industry, publish
ed two long articles pointing out the
certainty of the early exhaustion of
the Indiana gas fields. In its last
issue it published the following arti-
Gle which explains itself
The letter of belmont" from FL
wood, Ind, and the report of John J.
Netterville. of Anderson, published in
the COmmOner and GlaSsWOrker of Dec.
Is, both calling emphatic attention to
the rapid exhaustion of the Indiana
gas fields, must compel those who
have been engaged in manufacturing
i'm those fields, or those who are de-
sirous of investing capital in such en-
terprises, to seriously consider the
question, "Where shall we go?"
In the opinion of many of the most
noted experts that question is ans
wered, lola Kansas"
The field at lola has been developed
by local companies and by the Palm
er Oil Co., and shows a territory of
about sixty square miles. Within
this territory thirteen wells have been
drilled, the weakest Of which has a
rock pressure of sos pounds and a flow
of 8, 900, 900 cubic feet, and the strong.
est a rock pressure of 800 pounds and
flow of 100000. Several of them
measure between Z, 00O, 900 and8, 100000
cubic feet. These measurements were
made and certified to by A. w. Moore
of KOkomo, Ind, and William Moore
of the same place. One of the 5000, 900
wells was drawn upon by the LsnyOn
Zinc Smelter, running 1000 retOrts,
for nearly year without any percept-
ible dimunitiOn either in pressure or
flow. There are two zinc smelters
here, one With 22OO retorts and one
with 1900, the former drawing from |
two wells and the latter from one. |
Another well is supplying a manu-
featuring plant and a brick plant. |
Two wells are supplying fuel and
light for domestic purposes to the city |
of lola. The others are securely shut |
down, awaiting demand.
lola is located at the crossing of the |
A. Il. & s. f. and Missouri Pacific |
railroads, 100 miles south of Kansas
City, and is the county seat of rich |
agricultural county. It's population |
is about 5000, gain of about 1000 in
the past Is months. Living is cheap |
and labor disturbances have never |
been known.
In all the vast territory between the
Mississippi river and the Pacific coast |
there is now but one glass factory |
Who can doubt that this industry |
could be prOfitably established at lola
where gas and sites will be furnished |
practically free and where trunk lines
of railroad carry the the finished |
product to the distributing centers of |
a great consuming territory at present
unOccupied? And why should not the
same conditions make it possible to
establish many other lines of manu-
facture with equal certainty of success?
The commercial Importance of the
great West and Southwest is only be-
ginning to be realized. 1t is hard for
many in the East to believe that this
vast territory is filled with flOurishing
towns and cities, surrounded and sup
ported by thriving farming and stock
raising communities, demanding and
paying for an enormous quantity of
products. But this is
the case. And there are fortunes in
store for the enterprising capitalists
who first appreciate the advantages
to be gained by carrying the factory
into the very midst of this great con-
population.
The field Is too inviting to remain
long unoccupied. And when the
to take possession of it be-
gins. the inducements offered by the
splendid gas field at lola can hardly
fail to make that town great manu-
center.