THE 



WESTERN REVIEW OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



A MONTHLY RECORD OF PROGRESS IN 



Science, Mechanic Arts and Agriculture. 



VOL. 1. JULY, 1877. . NO. 5. 



MINERALOGY. 



THE lOLA (KANSAS) MINERAL WELL. 



BY PROF. WILLIAM K. KEDZIE. 



Prepared for the Semi-Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science, Leavenworth, June 1S77. 



At the request of the proprietors, I visited this interesting phenomenon 

 during the month of June 1876, for the purpose of colleeting a suj^ply of 

 water for a thorough analysis. The so-called "well" is, as is well known, 

 simply an old boring by coal prospectors. Its total depth is 736 feet. 

 When at the depth of 626 feet the diamond drill with which the boring was 

 made, suddenly dropped some twenty inches through an apparently vacant 

 seam. A violent upward rush of water and gas immediately began through 

 the tube, and with more or less irregularity has since continued without 

 cessation. The boring is tubed to the depth of 149 feet only. The water 



