The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-12-23
Special Industrial and Trades Review. Part 2.
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only meage gas
cluster Experience always be bought And in
the of the search for natural lola Thousands dollars
spent before the ders learned they had been stopping
the Surface sand instead going down the real Along
decided drill greater depth and this
direction had its reward at the end of that yeeg
Unexpectedly the goal attained and the surprise of all the
citizens of the then small lola One day they deaened by
hundred letting mighty
chorus This the opening of the first great natural we'll
The territory consists of eighty square miles and has
running ten miles East and West and four miles North and South
Within this limit the natural has been found depth varying
from o37 wells been drilled which
daily flow of million million The
from pounds the latter being obtained the
neghborhood IaIIap At Gas City three miles lola three
wells have been driven which daily flow
respectively Much the development and testing the
field has been done by the Palmer Oil Co. Cleveland Ohio who
have large which probability will be
reported characteristics permanc following
extract from the report by Mr. Moore Kokomo Indiana
h co" ga T gas VINO made an
largest and best well found was at lola drilled by the
Palmer Oil Co. the best gas wells have examined
1t perfectly dry and has rock of three hundred and nine
teen pounds and flow million fourteen thousand cubic
feet twenty four hours which equal heat units hundred
and thirty five good umnous coal This would
featuring establishment of four thousand horse capacity would de
liver through properly constructed line forty or fifty miles distant
thousand domestic cooking and heating stoves such generally
output of the well at the present time.
One remarkable circumstance connected with this we'll gives
when in Unusually
large one and the tubing prepared was entirely too small tor such
we'll tubing had obtained which eighteen
During this time the well blew about eight million cubic feet
day showing elimination flow and perfectly
dry all the time reliably informed Of this fact by of the
who drilled this WELL and Others who observed This
remarkable the somewhere this locality
and there to donbt that future dlngs will
larger wells than this one
About year later Mr. A. w Moore also of Kokomo natural
after examining wells drilled the foregoing
made, writes follows
The wells all dry and good condition and the largest
wells measured Indeed doubt there argerwel the
United The which the contained
from eight hundred and fifteen hundred and fifteen
of
although the der have able than
feet of the extraordinary Shut off the
the wells and apply the and it will Immediately show
rock from three hundred three hundred and twenty
pounds
The above strengthened by the statements made
book entitled the Mineral Resources of Kansas compiled by
Hawoh the Geology Mnealogy
University Kansas which extended to be quoted here
lola has all along maintained that she had than anybody
evidence claim
ducng the following table value of last
duct 1t might be well remember that the has been
than doubled during the past year.
VALUE THE NATURAL GAS 1907.