Fortn-serenth Aiutual Meeting. 27 



Professor Todd asks for more time to continue his investi- 

 gations before presenting his revised paper to the Academy 

 for publication. 



The next paper, No. 20. was by Prof. E. H. S. Bailey, "A 

 Concise Method for the Classification of Common Food Adul- 

 terations." This paper was listened to with much interest, but 

 there was no discussion. 



The next paper, No. o9, "The Kaw Valley Anticline," was 

 read by its author, Mr. E. C. Warfel. Specimens were ex- 

 hibited of a substance like granite which was struck at the 

 depth of 1000 feet in each of two holes which were drilled 

 about half a mile apart, and some petroleum which came from 

 a well bored north of Wamego. 



On motion, Mr. Alva Smith's paper was called for before 

 any discussion of Mr. Warfel's paper, since the subjects were 

 kindred. 



]Mr. Smith then read his paper, No. 40, "A Deep Well at Elm- 

 dale." He said his attention was called to gas development 

 at Elmdale about thirty years ago, when a well was dug there 

 which at thirty feet deep had such a flow of gas that they 

 could not use the water and abandoned the well. An old lady 

 and gentleman, owmers of the well, would not allow anything 

 to be done with it, and the gas continued to bubble through 

 the water for a number of years. Finally they drilled at Elm- 

 dale about five years ago and struck gas at depths of from 

 10 to 500 feet, three or four different sands producing it. 

 We are on a line with the gas at Newkirk, Okla., and it ought 

 to space within ten or twelve miles of this gas. For instance, 

 we have El Dorado, within two miles of the line ; then we pass 

 further up within five or ten miles from Burns, and then 

 within a mile over to Elmdale, and within five or six miles of 

 Wilsey, where five years ago they found gas at a depth of 500 

 feet, and the line passes within a mile of the well at Dwight. 



Professor Wooster said, in reference to the so-named granite 

 struck in the borings near Zeandale, that the materials com- 

 posing this rock may have been washed there by the various 

 streams of water, and then in presence of a saline solution there 

 was a process of cementation, and a stone resembling granite 

 may have been formed from the sandstone, as I have noticed 

 in my work in Wisconsin, where there was sandstone. In the 

 specimen exhibited there is only 16 per cent of feldspar, which 

 in the real granite exceeds all the other mineral constituents. 



