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comes up through the spring rock from the sandstone below, 
or No. 17 of our section. 
‘“‘Honeywell’s oil spring is in section 33 of the same town- 
ship, and comes out through the fractures of the sandstone 
of No. 27 of our section, about thirty feet below the limestone 
No. 26. 
“We saw some fifteen other springs from which oil fiows 
more or less freely, and numerous places where the sandstones 
are completely saturated with it, and where the shales and 
limestones contain it in cavities. Oil also saturates the sand- 
stone and comes up through the mud in several places in north- 
east quarter of section 31, township 18, range 24, on Godfrey’s 
branch. It also flows out of the bank of the Marais des Cygnes 
just above the mouth of that branch. The same sandstone 
crops out in nearly all the branches in this region, and is 
everywhere more or less impregnated with oil. At Sac ford, 
in northwest quarter of section 30, township 19, range 24, 
oil flows out of the bank on both sides of the river; also in 
several places in the ravines leading to the river, between Sac 
and Miami fords. And in a ravine west of the north fork of 
Middle creek, in southeast quarter of section 3, township 19, 
range 24, oil was obtained in a shallow excavation in No. 27. 
This sandstone crops out in many of the ravines in this re- 
gion, and shows more or less signs of oil. Petroleum also 
flows from the soil in Mr. Geboe’s land, and in several other 
places on Middle creek below. 
‘Some oil was obtained in the salt-wells at Osawatomie, in 
several wells at Paola, in Dennis’s, Spence’s, Lykins’s, and 
many other wells. Lykins’s well was bored for oil in the 
southeast quarter of section 15, township 17, range 23, in 
1860, under the direction of Mr. G. W. Brown, for Messrs. 
Brown, Solomon & Co. We could get no very reliable account 
of the borings, as the records are reported lost. Mr. S. S. 
Clover gave us the following as the facts in the case accord- 
ing to the best of his recollection: “The well is 275 feet deep; 
25 to 30 feet limestone, and the remainder soapstones and 
sandstones and clays, with blue concretions containing pyrites 
which was said to have some gold in it. At the depth of 150 
feet the clay with concretions was reached, 5 to 20 feet thick, 
and the last 50 feet was the same. ‘Got the oil all the way 
down.” It was supposed it would yield one barrel of oil per 
day, when the work closed on account of the troubles.’ 
“A St. Louis company, under the auspices of Mr. Einstein, 
nas just commenced boring on section 11, township 17, range 
24. When we were there they had reached a depth of 110 
feet, with some oil. The work is now in progress with fair 
prospects and high hopes of success. 
“These various oil-springs and other indications of petro- 
leum have their origin in four different sandstones, Nos. 10, 
12, 17, and 27, of our section, as given above. Each of these 
