The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-17
First City, First State, First Nation

First City, First State, First Nation.
Under the above head, a be Stein
berger, of the Glrsrd World, prints a
nice eulogy of what lola, has done
and q glowing account of what the
future promises. He dwells at length
on the philosophy of greatness and
the mushroom boom of other Kan
sas towns, and then he gets down to
the "pint aud pithn OF his remarks
thus:
Ofcourse, the first and greatest necessary
natural advantage which must be found in lay
ng the foundation for city in which all kinds
of industries may be fostered, expanded and
maintained, is fuel Machinery can only be
moved by power power must be produced,
in the interior, through the agency of fuel
That point at which fuel can be had in un-
limited quar- tity is the only one to which CAPT
tai can be attracted in manufacturing enter
prises to any extent; when such a location is
discovered its future is assured. And, OF
course. iamong all the fuels there Is none yet
known to scientific experiment that lis com
parable to the natural gas. When the natural
gas is found in sufficient quantity to warrant
its flow as strong, steady and lasting, and the
people of that locality are active and alert to
their oppoi tunities. 1t Is but question of time
when there will be permanently centered there
industries which must assure the building of a
great and prosperous city.
The enthusia site Kansan has never tired in
his determined search for every possible
natural resource to be discovered in his locality
In quite number of places immense coal de-
posts have been discovered and developed,
and in many places in the eastern portion of
the State, natural gas has been found. The
center, or the reservoir supplying manifesuy
the strongest flow from this great gas belt has
been demonstrated. beyond all cavil, to be at
lola, the capital of Allen county, aboutseventy
miles south and west of Kansas City, at the
junction of the Santa Fe told Southern Kan
sas) and the Missouri Pacific railroads. Three
years ago the gas supply having been demon
strated to be there In inexhaustible quantity,
and showing a pressure which It is deemed
next to impossible TO ever utilize in full the
people of lola awoke to the fact that all that
remained to insure lola to become the
greatest industrial city of the west, was TO let
the readin world know of their natures sup
piled advantages This they have striven
faithfully to do, and today. in every land
where the art of printing is known the fiat
has gone forth that here in Kansas, is develop
the greatest natural gas supply ever discovered
by man on the American continent. And to
he able to enjoy its benefits ones poslofice
address must become lola
willing hands aud brave hearts in united
action never fail in an undertaking Within
the past three years, and at time, too, when
all the towns in the west have found 1t q
struggle to hold their own. lola has more than
doubled its population, erected more
new, modern buildings than all the other
TOWNS In the state combined, its business
houses have increased in size and number,
and the entire populace presents phase OF
activity decidedly enchanting. Two large
zinc smelling plants Of modern construction,
and other smaller factories have been put in
and are being successfully operated. In this
connection in order to illustrate the enduring
power of the gas flow from Mother Earth, we
might state, that one OF the gas wells from
which one of the W & j. canyons large
smelling works has drawn its immense sup
ply. was recen tly cut out after two years
steady pull, When it was attached to the
rmelter two years sgo the test showed pres
sure of $40 pounds; at the time It was cut out a
new test was made, revealing pressure OF
s2d pounds There can be no doubt of the
fact that lola is destined TO become the in.
dustrial metropolis of the great west