The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-24
KANSAS OIL FACTS
Elaborate Bulletin Issued by
the State University.
Answers One Thousand QueS-
tiOns About "BIack GOld.'
FREE To ALL IN The STATE
NOn-Residents Must Pay To Get
Valuable Book.
History of Developments and
Prospects Are Given.

Lawrence, Kan, April 24.-What
are the chances for oil in Cheyenne
county, or in any other county in Kan
sas where oil has not been developed?
What are the further prospects in
counties where oil has been de-
veloped? What is the usual custom
in leasing and what does a typical oil
lease look like? What does oil seep-
age indicate and what other surface.
indications are there of oil deposits?
And what does the collected data of
the biologists amount to and point to
in the further development of Kansas
as an oil and mining state?
All the foregoing questions and a
thousand more are taken up, answered
as fully as possible and discussed in
"Oil and Gas Resources of Kansas" a
new bulletin just issued by the state
geologist, DIR. Raymond C. Moore of
the University of Kansas. The new
bulletin is free to residents of Kansas,
On application to Doctor Moore and
receipt of postage, twenty-five cents.
Non-residents must pay $125 to the
state geological survey for copies of
the book which contains four hundred
pages and close to one hundred cuts,
charts and maps.
Very Full Information.
The new bulletin is the most COM
plete survey ever made of Kansas oil
and gas. and it's contents are almost
complete oil education, from a lay
mans standpoint While the book is
absolutely rigid in it's adherence to
scientific facts and methods and to
painstaking accuracy, it is extremely
practical and is written with a view
to making it as valuable as possible
to every kanSan and to non-reSid entS
who are or might be interested in
Kansas. 1t covers the whole field of
ld IfC hob IL frrSy
chemistry, properties, its geology, the
| migration and accumulation of OIL the
formations that collect, seal or dissi-
pate oil and gas. the locations of wells
| methods of drilling, costs of drilling,
rigs used, well management methods
OF refining and percentages of gaso-
line, burning oil stock, tar and loss in
different plants, history and records of
drilling and of production.
The logs o. number of wells that
have been drilled in Kansas and in
Missouri aid Nebraska. near the Kan
saS line make valuable and interest
ing reading to anyone interested in
oil. There are a number of these logs
ir the book and records of production
in various counties is very complete.
After the topic of Kansas geologic
formations and their significance have
been discussed and explained thoroly,
the bulletin takes up each county and
its formations and possibilities. Big
producing counties like Butler and
Chautauqua, in addition to full de-
scrlpt1ve details, are represented by
large two-colo- maps showing their
oil and gas developments
Experts Compiled Data.
Kansas was the second state in the
Union to engage in a serious attempt
to- find oil. That was in 1850 at
Paola, a year after the celebrated
Colonel Drake well was brought in
near Titusville, Pa, says DR.. Erasmus
Haworth, head of the department of
geology at the university, Doctor Ha-
worth, DR.. Winthrop P. Haynes of
the university faculty and now Lieu
| tenant Haynes of the aviation corps,
and Prof William A. Whitaker, head
OF the state industrial research labor
atory at the university, and a number
of other members OF the university
faculty collaborated in the bulletin.
Doctor Moore hopes to extend the
| usefulness of the bulletin still further,
| to include the lead and zinc fields of
| Kansas. Kansas ranks fourth in the
| Union in lead production and third
| in zinc production. Kansas also pro-
dCces more than eleven million tons
| of coal annually and Doctor Moore
says the geologic survey work can be
, made 20 help the coal industry greatly
as well as to do further exploration
| in undeveloped parts of Kansas that
give promise of oil and gas. The
geologic survey, however, was neg
| lected entirely by the last legislature.
and only thru the voluntary work of
the university was the new oil and
Sas book brought out this year. Other
states give $4,000 to 100000 a year
for geological surveys and Kansas,
enc of the foremost mineral states of
the Union, gives nothing toward the
development of its second greatest in
| dustry oil and minerals.