Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . ted Slates GeologicalSurvey reports. All others taken from reports of S ate Inspector of Coal Mines. OIL AND GAS. Kansas is fast becoming an important factor in the production ofoil, and has achieved no small distinction as a producer of naturalgas. The history of the discovery and development of gas and oil inthe State is a long and interesting one, but can only be hinted athere. The following matter on this topic is taken from the workon the Minera
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . ted Slates GeologicalSurvey reports. All others taken from reports of S ate Inspector of Coal Mines. OIL AND GAS. Kansas is fast becoming an important factor in the production ofoil, and has achieved no small distinction as a producer of naturalgas. The history of the discovery and development of gas and oil inthe State is a long and interesting one, but can only be hinted athere. The following matter on this topic is taken from the workon the Mineral Resources of Kansas, by Prof. Erasmus Haworth,of the State University: In a number of different places in the State, the earlier settlerslearned from the Indians that oil springs existed, were accounted ofwonderful efficacy by the Indians, and they frequently visited themfor the purpose of obtaining material to be used by their medicinemen in their various ceremonies. As this was at the time when thedevelopment of the Pennsylvania oil fields was attracting such wideattention, the discovery excited much interest. Wells drilled in the 80 I. 81 KANSAS. neighborhood of Wyandotte furnished considerable quantities of gas,which was something almost unknown at that time in this early as 1860, prospecting for oil was undertaken in the vicinityof Paola, but discontinued on account of the political difficultiesthat arose at that time. From the earliest daj^s of Kansas history there has been greatfaith in the possibilities of the development of a great oil and gasindustry in the eastern part of Kansas. In 1882, prospecting was renewed in Miami County, and gas wasfound in the wells which were drilled about seven miles northeast ofPaola, and in sufficient quantities to be piped to the city of Paola,and there used as an illuminant and fuel in the residence and busi-ness portions of the city. In 1873 a well was bored at lola, whichproduced sufficient gas to attract considerable at
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