The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-04
NO STATE HAS GREATER
VARIETY OF RESOURCES
Most Valuable are Immense
Quantities. Of Goal,
Oil and Gas


homa when she distributed the min
eral wealth OF the state. No single
state has greater amount OF min
eial nor greater variety of minerals
han has Oklahoma. The most valu-
able products are coal oil, gas, as
phalt, gypsum, lead, zinc, clay of all
kinds, and sand building stone. In
addition there are smaller amounts
Of iron copper and a little gold and
silver, while such substances as
tripoli phosphate, volcanic ash, no.
vaculate and the radium earths are
nown to exist.
The most valuable of all minerals
are the fuels. Upon these depend
the upbullding Of any region, for, un-
less water Is present, without fuels
close at hand, there can be no OK
tensive manufacturing industries.
With the immense quantities of coal,
oil and gas that are present IN Okla
homa, II Is an assured fact that not
only will the raw materials of the
sate be manufactured at home, but
the mineral products FROM neighbo
ing states also will be shipped here
for manufacture
The total amount of coal Is esti.
mated TO be not far from l0,0O0,000,-
600 tons There are more than 1o9
mines, large and small, now In opera
ton and the amount OF coal mined
annually is over 100000 tons Large
mines are located at or near Meal
ester, Krebs, llarlshorne. Hal'eyvlllo.
Anderson, Coalgate, Lehigh, i-dwarct,
Savanna, Blocker, Schulter, Broken
Arrow Dawson and Collinsville The
coal Is chiefly high grade bitum-
nous coal Coke Is manufactured
near a number of mines. the fine coal
OF slack being used for that purpose
There are more than a dozen re.
gions in Oklahoma In which oil and
gas occur, the greater part of them
being In the eastern part of the state
Three OF the most important are tht
shallow field, the 96th meridian
field, and the Cleveland field. The
9Gth meridian fed Is by far the most
productive. fOr along this meridian
are the oil fields Of Copan. Dewey.
Barlesvile. Ramona. Skiatook. Tul-
ea, Red Fork and the now famous
Glenn Pool from which more than 90
600, 900 barrels OF oil have been pre-.
duced> in the less than two years
There are also a number OF seat.
cred fie DIS, which show more or less
promise OF futu development
namely, Muskogee, Bald Hill, Morris
Madill. Wheeler Lawton and Golebo.
The depth OF the oil sand varies in
different localities The shallowest
we Is aie those In The Shallow field
east OF the Nerdlgris river. where
hc average depth Is about eco feet
Farther west near BartlesFille, we'll:
a q l.e00 to 200 feet deep Neal
Tulsa and in the Glenn Pool the
greater part Of The oil and gas Is
found at depth OF l,500 10 l70t
feet At Cleveland the oil Is founf
In higher sand than at Bartlesvillt
Or Tulsa, but the depth is approx
mately the same.
Only small part OF the Oklahoma
oil and gas fields have yet been de
I veloped, but Notwithstanding thil
( fact. 50,000,000 barrels OF oil wert
/ produced In 1907. The oil Is carries
! from the well TO tanks In two incl
! pipes. There are many tank farms II
1 the oil fields, cne OF the largest beinl
near Copan There are thrte larg'
pipe lines, one going north through
Kansas, past Chicago TO Within
Ind. the others running south TO th'
4 Gulf of Mexico. The Oklahoma yi
field has been developed within tn
past few years. iht first operation
having begun in l90i
Large areas OF known productiv
gas territory have not yet been drill
ed, because there is no market 70
the fuel The amount OF gas In Or
lahoma is immense Hundreds 9
wells flowing anywhere from 100000
lio 10,00es000 cubic feet a day hay
been shut In. and many wells are RI
ported TO flow as high as 100000
\ cubic feet daily Natural gas Is b,
ing used In number Of towns !
Eagie n Oklahoma and Is now bein
pipcd TO some OF the larger towns I
the west Of the fields Manufacturer
plants from other states are bein
located in Oklahoma on account {
the abundance and eheapness OF th
gas.
Asphalt Is found in many parts {
the state. but chiefly IN the regio
south OF the Afbnckle mountains
Ine KNOWN aeposils are among lh
most extensive In the United State
HUNDREDS OF veins of asphalt has
been found and new ones are co.
siantly being discovered. Sayerl
mills have been efeefeu. one At iI
sonite. one ri the Brunswick min
and one a. Ardmole In SONG case