56 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



KANSAS PETROLEUM. 



By Edward Bartow and Elmer V. McCollum, University of Kansas, Lawrence. 

 Read before the Academy, at Manhattan, November 27, 19C3. 



SINCE our first report on Kansas Petroleum (Trans. Kan. Acad* 

 Sci., vol. XVIII, p. 57), we have collected and examined twenty- 

 five specimens of crude petroleum from Kansas and other fields, mak- 

 ing thirty-three in all. 



The oils from the Kansas field were obtained from the following 

 localities; unless otherwise noted, they were obtained by one of us: 



Sample No. 9 was from well No. 5 of the Illinois Valley Oil and 

 Gas Company's property, about one and one-half miles northwest of 

 Cherryvale, Montgomery county. The sample was pumped directly 

 from the well. 



Samples Nos. 10 and 11 were sent to me by the Independence Gas 

 Company. No. 10 was described as coming from the Brownfield well, 

 in the center of the southwest quarter of section 3-32-15, and No. 11 

 from the Giger well, in the southwest quarter of section 29-33-15. 



Sample No. 19 was from well No. 3 of the Illinois Valley Oil and 

 Gas Company, about one and one-half miles northwest of Cherryvale, 

 and was collected directly from the well. 



Sample No. 20 was from a well about one mile south of Neodesha, 

 and was collected directly from the well. 



Sample No. 21 was from a well about a mile west of Neodesha, 

 Wilson county, and was collected from a tank at the well. 



Sample No. 23 was from the Bolt well of the Independence Gas 

 Company, near Bolton, Montgomery county, section 18-33-15. It 

 was taken from a tank at the well. 



Sample No. 24 was from the Fellows well of the Independence Gas 

 Company, north of Bolton, Montgomery county, section 8-33-15. It 

 was taken from a tank at the well. 



Sample No. 25 was taken from the Brewster well of the Drum 

 Creek Oil and Gas Company, four miles east of Independence, Mont- 

 gomery county, section 3-33-16. This sample was collected as it 

 was forced out between the casings by the gas pressure. 



Sample No. 26 was from the Brownfield well of the Independence 

 Gas Company, about four miles northwest of Independence, Mont- 

 gomery county, section 3-32-15. It was collected directly from the 

 flowing well. 



Sample No. 27 was from the Mosher well of the Independence Gas 

 Company, northwest of Independence, Montgomery county, section 

 35-31-15, and was collected from a tank. 



