Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-06-25
SEEK Potash IN
West OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA GEOLOGICAL SUR
NEN TAKES Up SEARCH.
IS The best Fertilizer
state ana Federal Survey VIII Co
Operate In Work-To AnalyLo
Drilling samples.

Drilling Samples.
Norman, Okla. June "a Has Ok
lahoma untold wealth Of valuable
fertilizer lying beneath the surface.
That is what the authorities are try
ing TO find out The oklahoma Geo
logical Survey at Norman, the Okla
homa state Board of Agriculture and
the United States Geological Survey
arc cooperating in the endeavor to.
lind deposits Of potash or other fer
tIlizing salts IA Western Oklahoma.
II Is well known that potash is one
Of the most valuable fertilizers known
to man. 1t has been used Tor gener-
ations In both Europe and America
to restore worn-out soils. The.
worlds supply Of fertilizers comes
from certain deep mines in Germany
whore this material was discovered
IN drilling for salt. This German pot
ash is used in all the countries Of
Europe ana much of 1t is sent to
America.
The authorities ut Washington have
for some time been endoayoring to.
find out whore in the United states
deposits of potash were located.
The last Congress made an appro-
prlatlon for research along this line
and the work was placed under the
direction of the United states Geo
logical Survey. According to the
bill all research work must be done
ON public land The director Of the
United states Survey has organized
several parties that will work this
year IN California, Nevada and Arl-
2ouu number Of deep wells win
be drilled I'm old lake beds in these
states and tho drnings at various
depths viii be analyzed in the en-
deavor TO find potash.
Prof. Could Of the Oklahoma Geo
logical Survey. having learned of this,
endcavored to persuade the Federal
authorities to spend some Of the
money in oklahoma. but was unable
to do 50 because of the fact that there
is no public land in this state,
It viii be remembered that last
year tho Legislature appropriated
$45,OOO for drilling nine wells In
Cimarron, Tex, and Beaver Coun-
ty in oklahoma in an attempt to
find artcsian water. This work was
placed under direction Of tho state
Board Of Agriculture. The board has
contracted with drillers to put down
four wells in Texas, three IN Cimar-
ron and two IN Beaver County.
When Prof. Gould found that the
Government would not spend any
money in drilling I'm Oklahoma, he
took up with the Federal Survey the
matter of securing the information
from the wells which the state is to
drill and has arranged to have sam
pies collected from these wells, That
Is, the Federal Survey and the Ok
lahoma Survey will cooperate I'm pay
ing the expense Of a man to collect
these samples Mr.. Charles r.
Ecles, a graduate in geology at Ok
lahoma University has been assigned
this work and instructed to report at
| Hooker, Okla, where the first well
IS being drilled. He will collect
samples Of the drlllings from every
few feet. These samples will be seal
ed in air-tight bottles and taken TO
chemical laboratories and -analyzed
1t Is hoped that some OF them at least
will show potash or other fertilizing
salts.
When asked regarding the proba-
biity OF these things being found
IN tho Panhandle, Professor Gould
said:
Il consider the chance for find
ing potash salts fairly good. In Ger
many and other places in the world
where potash salts occur they are
! generally found in connection with
dolomite, gypsum and common salt q,
All Of thes minerals occur In Western
! oklahoma The Gypsum Hills which
outcrop along the Cimarron River in
Woodward and Harper Counties con-
tain great lodges Of gypsum and many
beds Of salts and dolomite. These
formations pass under the surface
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wells which are being drilled in the
| Panhandle counties 1t is true that
heretofore very little potash has been
found In oklahoma, but this Of itself
1t no particular reason why these de-
poslts might not occur in the deep
wells
AT any rate, 7 agree with the d.
rector OF the Federal Survey, that
we viii be justified in paying tho ex-
penses Of a man to collect the SAM
pies and Of having analyses made in
order to ascertain whether or not
these salts occur, II nothing IS
found the state is out n few hundred
dollars. II the salt is found Okla.
homa will have added millions Of dol.
lars to It's wealth."
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