The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-11
MIGHTINESS Is
PREDICTED FOR
CLEVELAND,
That City Has Every Prospect
for Future Greatness
GAS, COAL AND ENERGY
"Katy" Has Been Made an
Offer to Come There

Guthrie, O. T.. Feb. 1o.-The following
correspondence is sent TO the Eagle from
Cleveland. 0. T.:
We noticed in the Eagle of the 5th inst.
historical sketch of the title, Windy
Wonder" that seems TO have been as
you state-a chicken of Wich.ta's own
hatching-and which has come home to
roost. The Eagle seems to think the ap-
plication a fitting one for Wichita-the
Windy Wonder of the Wild and Wooley
West.
But speaking Of Wichita recalls the
comparison made some time ago by US
IN a short write-up of the Triangle
( country, of Cleveland TO Wichita.
We then predicted that time would de-
velop on the banks Of the Arkansas river
in Oklahoma a city that would occupy
in Oklahoma the place now held by Wich-
ita in the great. commonwealth of Kansas.
And we hinted that that town would be
called Cleveland, and feel now more than
ever that we were not simply talking
with our mouth. But who is 10 have the
honor of christening this new wonder
with fitting nom de plume? And what
shall he the euphonious words that shah
embellish that title and fttinsly charac-
teIize its possessor? It viii not be
windy No, that is not a character
site quality of climate. nor of social or
business conditions. No, Windy" is not
the word. The "cognomen" (as the Eagle
puts it that is 10 adorn this Oklahoma
stripping must express buster and move
body. less sound and mOve-smoothness.
In short, IT must be decidedly oily Yes
"Oil' viii be the word, or perhaps Gas
may be appropriate. And when we speak
of gas we mean the -ea1 thing-not that
effervescing fluid that Is exuded or evap-
grated from the pent-up fountains of the
intellect of a Kansas Popuist-but the
kind that any man may see by sticking
a-match to the top of the tubing of the
wei on Charles NIoore's farm, one mile
south of Cleveland. Charley has a cir
cuIar lid with an augur hole in the
middle( exactly like churn lid, into
which he has inserted piece OF one
inch iron pipe a foot long. This lid he
fits inside the tubing of the well letting
the iron pipe project upward then he
stops UP the crevices Of his lid with clay
or dough and places a lighted match To
the little pipe and instantly YOU have
- bright. strong fame that reaches up
from three 70 four feet and increases in
size as The 1OW of gas thus confined in
creases in volume. And this well is only
sixty feet deep. The theory has been ad-
vanced that the source of the gas is but
a pocket but TO one not wise in matters
Of this kind it would seem that after
nearly two years of unchecked flowing
a pocket would become. 20 some extent.
exhausted. But we leave the settlement
of this question 10 those who are willing
to settle it by demonstration. Perhaps
the oil and gas company recently formed
here viii do this, as by the terms of
their leases they must begin to sink a
we'll before the 1st of July, 1902
But this is not the only indication Of
gas in the vicinity. 4 well on the same
quarter section, sunk year or more
earlier than this one, had TO be aban-
doned for house use because Of the strong
odor and flavor of gas, and though this
flow in the first well is not so strong as
the last, yet the gas IS said TO be escaping
still undimipished in volume.
Thus, as early as 1895, gas and oil were
struck at a depth of sixty feet, on the
claim of A. L. Jones and this oil was
analysed at. We believe. Saltwater and
pronounced 70 be a good quality OF pc
troleum
These, then, are some of the indications
of what nature has done for this section
and it now only waits for capital and
enterprise to develop the rest.
And that enterprise is not wanting in
our people is evidenced by the effort they
have made TO bridge the Arkansas river
and that nothing but success viii be
accepted as final by the people of Cleve-
land and the Triangle is also shown
in the result OF this bridge enterprise.
But this again, is not the end of the
enterprises on foot and near to accom- +
plishment A proposition has been made +
to the Katy railroad. which has vir-
tualiy been accepted by that road. and