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COFFEYVILLE.—The first development in oil and gas in the 
vicinity of Coffeyville was made under the direction of Mr. 
W. P. Brown, a leading merchant of that city. Mr. Brown had 
become convinced that gas or oil might be obtained in com- 
mercial quantities by proper search. The result was that in 
the autumn of 1892 pipes were laid in the streets of the city 
for supplying private buildings with light and fuel. 
Coffeyville, the same as most other towns, has had quite a 
varied experience in the way of changing companies, attempted 
monopolies of supply, and other matters of a business nature, 
but through all of this she has had a good supply of gas, ob- 
tained partly from under the city itself and partly from wells 
to the east, but principally from the large gas-wells obtained 
from three to eight and ten miles west and northwest. The 
Coffeyville field connects with the field at Deering and from 
that by way of Jefferson to the big gas-field south of Inde- 
pendence, practically without any barrier. No town in the 
state has been better supplied with gas and no town has had a 
more active and energetic set of citizens, who have brought in 
factories of various kinds to consume the gas at home. Cof- 
feyville seems to have made a specialty of glass plants, so that 
at the present time it is by far the greatest center for manu- 
facturing almost all kinds of glassware, excepting plate glass, 
west of Pittsburg; all on account of her great abundance of 
gas for fuel and the extraordinary push and energy of her 
citizens. 
Coffeyville has never been noted as an oil center, yet in 1902 
and 1903 a very considerable amount of oil was obtained north- 
east and southwest of town. 
CHERRYVALE.—The history of obtaining gas at Cherryvale 
is similar to that in a number of other towns in the state. The 
first few attempts resulted in failures, but perseverance finally 
produced excellent results. Mr. Butler, secretary of the Cher- 
ryvale Gas Company, once said to the writer that when he 
first began prospecting about Cherryvale he found so many 
dry wells that he just simply could not quit, because everything 
he had in the world was invested in holdings in this town. 
Fortunately for him and the world he obtained a good gas-well 
before funds entirely gave out. Gas-pipes were laid in the 
streets of Cherryvale in 1893, since which time the town has 
had an abundance of gas for every purpose. The Cherryvale 
Gas Company, under the efficient management of its secretary, 
