The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-12-17
TELL THE TRUTH.
Your Jealousy is Natural But You
Should Not
LET 1T GET ON TOP
OF Your Conscience-COme Up and See
For Yourself The Biggest Natural
Gas Field in The
World

The vitrifed brick plant at lola, according
TO the REGIsER. has been shut down for
time. We would gather from the drift of
the article that natural gas has not alto
9ether been a success in making brick The
smeIters are getting plenty of water now
from an old hole that failed TO strike gas -
Pittsburg Headlight.
When the Headlight "gsthers that
natural gas has not altogether been a
success in making brick" it does not
gather it from the REGISTER article,
as it saws it does, but from its own
Jealous wishes. The REGISTERS ar
ticle plainly and proudly stated that
the lola Brick Plant had been an I'M
qualified success from the start, hav-
ing turned out two aud halfmillions
of brick in the first six months of its
existence. And it plainly stated also
that the present shut down was oc-
casiened by break in the machinery
and not on account Of the gas supply
as the Headlight insinuates. Farther
than that, the REGISTER said that
the machinery would be soon repair
ed and that work would then be re-
sumed and the output increased,
And yet in the face of that statement
the Headlight gathers" that the
plant has not been a success and is
shut down indefinitely! Surely the
responsible editor of the Headlight
will acknowledge and correct the in
Justice done to the REGISTER and TO
lola by the careless misstatement of
his exchange reader.
The insinuation in the Headlights
last sentence that our gas field is not
all that is claimed for it, is too ludic-
rOus to deserve serious answer. We
will have to admit that even the lola
Gas field has limits. 1t does not ex-
tend indefinitely in all directions. If
il did it might. reach even to Pitts
burg. The "Old hnle' from which
the canyons are now drawing water
is one of the wells that was bored
outside the limits of the gas field.
Within the limits of that field not a
single we'll has get been drilled that
failed to find gas, and that is a state
ment which cannot be truthfuliy
made, we are Informed, of any other
gas field.
lola has no disposition to twit other
towns, outside of the gas belt, with
their 20 ,erty. But we do insist that
these to yns should not spread false
reports about US. If the Headlight
will send a representative here the
REGISTER will take pleasure in enter
tanning him, and showing him zinc
smelter, employing $50 men and turn
ing out a product of ten to twelve car
loads weekly, in which no other fuel
is used except natural gas. We will
show him another smelter which will
he in operation in a few days, of near
Iy equal capacity and using the same
best equipped and largest brick plants
in the State, using natural gas for
fuel. We Will show him a Manu-
featuring Plant. operating an iron
furnace of sufficient capacity to cast
store fronts, and using natural gas
only for fuel. We will show him a
Creamery, two feed mills, a 100000
gallon water plant, Sorghum mill,
Cider mill. and not less than five
hundred stores and residences, in
which no other fuel except natural
gas is used. In short we will show
him the best town for its size in Kan
sas and the biggest natural gas field
i'm the world. This invitation is as
sincere as it is cordial, and we trust it
will be accepted.