Mining and Geology Edition. UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN A Gusher in the Kansas Oil Fields UNTOLD WEALTH FOUND IN KANSAS OIL FIELDS "A Veritable Forest of Rigs," Says Visitor in Viewing New Fields GREW UP IN ONE YEAR Urges Support of Department of Geology to Help Develop New Fields By CHARLES W. HOLLIDAY, Calgary, Alberta. On nearing the Butler Oil Fields from the north, by motor, you may see an occasional standard derrick, standing out like a sentinel, and figure of rigs breaks into a verticle for the rigs breaks into the west along the Walnut River. Between El Dorado and Augusta the familiar steel 55' of the oil fields, the 55,000-barrel tanks appear here and there, one farm containing seventeen. Between the two towns the streak of developed territory thins down, to widen again along the Whitewater River west and north of Augusta. The traveler may, as he enters the town, count in excess of 200 standard derricks in that block. South of town one may say, "There are 200 from where there is an estimated total of some 2,500 in the county. Pumping stations and piping and tankage property is in keeping with the development. The first and foremost impression received by the casual visitor to Augusta and El Dorado is the tremendous amount of drilling, tanking, and piping that has been done within the last year. A very new field—yet the most challenging in this work is staggering to one who has not been in touch with the field. One cannot spend a day in the Augusta field and not have brought home to him the intrinsic value of new wealth as created by oil production, coal, mineral and clay products. It is, in the parlance of the most modern terminology, the more water "and it is very evident that, through the payment of royalties, the heavy expenditures for labor and material, and the investment of strictly local capital, a major portion of this wealth comes into the hands of the residents of the locality where the production is found. It is also very evident that the land line that wealth, but that it rapidly spreads, in one channel and another, throughout the state, adding wonderfully to the prosperity of its people. Probably the next shock to the complacent visitor comes when, in discussing "production" with some one versed in the facts, the sum total of the oil produced in a single day and its gross value at the present market price is mentioned. The daily output of crude oil, usually held, with a market value of, roughly, a quarter of a million dollars, including value of the gas. To a resident familiar with the paternal encouragement of the Canadian government as afforded to such industries, it would seem that the people of the state, as a whole, were slow to recognize the importance to the state of her oil, gas, and mineral resources. The theresus busil- ness man should take all means at hand for mastering the duty and caring for the best interests of an in- ship to one who is near his general financial welfare. Canada, realizing the great economic importance of locating and developing all her oil supply, offers a bonus of sixty cents per barrel for oil produced, thus remunerating the producer that amount above the curry-outlay in cash is made and a generous monetary support for the Government Geological and Engineering Departments. True, Canada owns in fee simple, all such natural deposits, but here such holdings are the property of the citizens and landowners and their assigns, and the care and handling of the united care and handling of the deposit. Therefore the citizens of the state, together with the owners and operators, are directly interested in the growth and prosperity of the business and its associated undertakings. For that reason, each person at least who is interested in the subject matter of this issue of the Kansan should feel himself responsible for proper attention along this line to strengthen—not in a lavish or random way, but in a businesslike and efficient manner—the various state departments in control of such interests, through modernizing the code of laws and by sufficient appropriations. Kansas now has oil, coal, gas, mineral, clay, and stone production in excavations of 4000 annually. Surely such business is worth safeguarding und expanding. Greetings From Former Professor of Mining at K. U. I am glad to have this opportunity to extend a very cordial greeting to my friends among us, and I will give them students. I am always glad to hear of their success and to help a little when I can. I hope they are co-operating as well now to help each other, and to help with our work, so they did to win cups on Engineers' Days of the past. C. M. Young ... Walter Rohrer, e'15, is still with the Central Coal and Coke Company in Missouri. Walt favored us with a visit at the Missouri game. SPECIAL FOR 30 DAYS Gold Crown...$4.00 Black Diamond...4.00 White Fillinga Silver Fillinga ...56c All work guaranteed. DR. KHILDER, Destinet Beverly Hills. K. U. CRADLES GEOLOGY AND MINING FRATERNITY A. G. ALRICH Printing, Binding, Engraving K Books, Looser Leaf Supplies Fountain Pens, Inks, Typewriter Papers, Rubber Stamps 744 Mass. St. IS JUST TWO YEARS OLD Sigma Gamma Epsilon Now Has Chapters in Other Universities Typewriter Supplies Note Books—Theme Paper —All your Supplies at CARTER'S Professor Twenhofel, Now Geology Teacher at Wisconsin Was Founder Bv SHERWIN F. KELLY There was not a fraternity devoted to the interests of mining, geology and metallurgy, in existence in the United States. The Mining Engineers' Journal. At one of the meetings of the Mining Journal, the K. U. Mining Engineer's organization, that semester. Professor W. H. Twenhofel suggested that the idea of establishing a fraternity. A committee consisting of Glenn Allen, Clark Carpenter, Hugh Brown, and Walter Rohrer investigated the field and with Roy Reynolds, Sherwin Kelly, Ted Crum, George Sammons, and Professor Twenhofel, also charter members of the fraternity, Sigma Gamma Epsilon was organized. OTHER CHAPTERS ESTABLISHED **OFFER** *GHAETTERS ESTABLISHED* The results of a study in shape was carried on throughout that year and into the next. The results became manifest in the growth of the local chapter, and later in the appellation document of chapters in other schools. Growth at first was slow, as the Grand Council did not want to receive petitions until its organization had been carefully perfected. Professor Twenhoef, formerly of the department of geology, but now at Wisconsin University, is the Grand President, and to him is due the greatest credit for the organizing of the fraternity. KANSAS-MISSOURI-OKLAHOMA DISTRICT TOTAL OUTPUT $328,993,559 The fraternity is now national, since there are chapters in several schools, both in the east and in the west. A student brought it to the attention of the men in the field, and approval of Sigma Gamma Epsilon has been widespread. A Daily Letter Home—The Daily Kansan. Following is the valuation of ore produced from this district since mining has been carried on. Early-day out-put is largely estimate, but is considered fairly accurate. It will be noted that the production of the past year was equal in value to more than one-tenth of the ore. FRATERNITY IS NATIONAL Previous to 1870 (lead only) $ 2,927,800 1870-1889 (zinc and lead) 28,595,528 1890-1894 (zinc and lead) 18,642,321 1895-1899 (zinc and lead) 30,393,363 1900-1904 (zinc and lead) 46,353,391 1905-1909 (zinc and lead) 70,072,582 1910-1914 (zinc and lead) 71,640,493 1915 (zinc and lead) 26,038,650 1916 (zinc and lead) 34,961,993 Grand total —From the Joplin Globe's Mining Edition, January 28, 1917. $328,993,559 BAXTER SPRINGS LEAPS INTO MINE LIMELIGHT Lead and Zinc Strikes Cause Town to Double in Population in Year The big, new Kansas mining town, Baxter Springs, is given very complimentary notice in the Joplin Globe's 1917 issue, 8.197. The Globe said in part: No place in the Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma district has experienced more success during the year 1916 than Baxter Springs, Kas. In the twelve months just closed, its population has sprung from 1,800 to almost 5,000. It is every indication that it will reach 5,000 or 6,000 during 1917. The particular thing that blazoned Baxter Spring's boom on the local horizon was the recent announcement by A. W. Rogers, president of the Southwest Missouri Railway Company, that the company had decided to extend its lines from Galena to Baxter. * * * The town is a sort of gateway out of Kansas and southwest Missouri into Oklahoma, or you might look at it the other way and call it a sort of gateway out of Oklahoma into the other states. It is located almost on a direct line between Miami and Galena, and the southwest Missouri, with steep roads, makes an intimate connection to Galena and Jollin and Carthage. The town has good schools, including a high school and a normal training department; it has a free public library, two prospective new rail stations, an art gallery, pure, electric lights and telephone, and natural gas. Property values trebled in the past six months and the big increase in population has mostly taken place in this same half year. At least $50,000 has been expended in public improvements, and this amount will be greatly exceeded in 1917. STRUCK 1,400-FOOT MASS OF CRYSTALLINE ROCK Deep well drilling in the central part of the state recently has revealed the presence of a great ridge of crysophane that extends from the island mass rising above the Mississippi sea of the carboniferous period. This Ridge has been encountered in wells all the way from Onaga to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and Elmldale to Burns at the south. The office of the Geological Survey of Kansas has received samples from some of the wells and is endeavoring to get a complete record so that the varieties and distribution of these wells can be known to the people of the state. One of the wells at Elmidge, near Cottonwood Falls, struck the crystalline rock at about 1,800 feet and continued their drilling to 3,200 feet before abandoning hope that they would get through it. 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