The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-24
THERE Is GAS
NEAR WICHITA
Says S. D. HalIowelI of
Chicago.
HAS STUDIED CONDITIONS
And the Kansas and Indiana
Fields are Identical.
HAS STUDIED CONDITIONS

There is gas and lots Of 1t just over
the hill east Of Wichita said s. D. Hal
| lowell yesterday. II have examined the
formations Of the ground here and in
/ the oil fields of Indiana and l find them
| the same. The Trenton limestone under
lies all this section. 1 find 1t cropping out
in many points and in and under this
stone you will always find gas and lots
| Of it."
Mr.. Hallowell came here some twenty
years ago. invested in real estate, went
into business. took a hand In the boom
and lost everything. But he was indus
| trious ard was not Chsmayed- He made
some more money and then went to
Greentown, Ind. He travelled for a fruit
company for a time and is now travelling
for Richardson g. Co. Of Chicago. He
has Travelled extensively through the gas
and oil regions OF Indiana and for the
past two months has spent the greater
part OF his time travelling through Kan
sas. For five years ne has studied con-
ditions and formations OF the gas fields,
and for the past two months has studied
the formations of Kansas and is sanguina
in his belief that gas will be found near
Wichita
"Of course. you will not find it in the
bottoms. but get out in the hills east
OF town, where there is a rock fornia-
ton and you will find gas in as large
quantities as in Indiana he continued
There is the very same formation here
as in Indiana, but the strata is deeper
You will have to go probably 2,00p feet
before you will find it. The gas sand IS
there. When you finl that gas sand you
will get gas in large quantities. Maybe
the drill would go through it and only
get small flow. That should not be
discouraging. Put few gallons of nitro
glycerine into the well and il will bring
a big flow OF gas. That has happened in
Indiana. A we'll when the drill stopped,
flowed gas with a pressure of twenty
pounds to the inch. A man came along
one Sunday and fired 1t and the gas
poured out with a pressure of over two
hundred pounds That will be the way
you will find 1t here. Until the well is
shot the flow will amount to very little.
Il expect that you will not find oil IN
any amount at first. The oil in Kansas
is flowing westward at the rate of five
miles a year. Your gas wells will be-
come exhausted in few years or some
of them viii. In Indiana a few months
after the gas well was abandoned a good
flow of oil was found in the same hole
and the flow has increased steadily with
the years.
The gas sand will be found in pockets
many Of large area, and there will be
but slight connection between the pock-
cts. One of your wells may become ex-
hausted while another a hundred feet
away will still flow. The latter well Is
in another pocket.
There is plenty of gas here-all that
is necessary is developing. l would not
limit the drillers to fifteen miles 1t IS
too important a proposition. The piping
OF that gas fifty miles is too little ex-
pense to be thought OF when you con-
slider tie benefits. Get gas at any dis
lance IN this state and pipe it to Wich-
ita and it will pay big dividends.
Il have been away from Wichita now
five years and in all my travels I have
never seen a town make so much i'm
provement in that length of time. Tho
people do not realize what they have
here. l was surprised. You talk about
your push and get-up and get, but the
people here are asleep. They do not
know what they have to develop. They
do not realize the possibilities of Wich-
tia as does man who has not been here
for n number of years. This city has
made wonderful strides in the past few
years. and II the people would push with
all their might ii would go many times
as fast and be just as solid as at pres
ert. Get gas here and il will wake up
the citizens. but they have not taken ad-
vantage of their opportunities even with