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the Arkansas river from the Osage lands. This resulted in a 
great rush to all adjacent lands, both in Cleveland on the south 
and in the Osage Nation on the north, and at present many 
drills are in operation on both sides of the river. It is reported 
that leases there are higher than anywhere else, excepting im- 
mediately adjacent to Bartlesville. Development was also car- 
ried on throughout the year in the vicinity of Muskogee, Chel- 
sea, Tulsa, Red Fork and Bartlesville. 
Later in the year the Secretary of the Interior began to con- 
firm leases within the Cherokee territory, and drilling began 
immediately with great activity, so that at present derricks 
are being erected and drills are in operation in many places. 
A few small areas were leased previously, notably section 12, 
including nearly all the town site of Bartlesville, which was 
leased to the Cudahy company; and an area of twelve sections 
near Chelsea leased to the Cherokee Oil and Gas Company. 
A part of the town site of Bartlesville was deeded outright, so 
that the owners can lease or drill at their pleasure. Since 
Cherokee leases have been confirmed drilling has become very 
active in the vicinity of the little town of Alluwe, about thirty 
miles south of Coffeyville, and also at the villages of Dewey 
and Lenapah, the former being four miles north of Bartlesville 
and the latter ten miles south of Coffeyville. At the close of 
November Chelsea had about 96 producing wells, Red Fork 50, 
Cleveland 10, Muskogee 35 or more, Bartlesville nearly 200, 
and other points within the Osage territory 75 or 80 more. 
At Chelsea and Alluwe the wells are from 300 to 600 feet in 
depth; at Red Fork and Tulsa from 700 to 1000 feet; at Mus- 
kogee 1000 to 1200 feet; at Bartlesville about 1100 to 1400, 
and at Cleveland 1600 to 1700 feet, the deepest of any in the 
entire Kansas-Indian Territory field. 
Some recent analyses of Kansas oils are given in the table 
(page 208). The method consisted of distilling the volatile 
products in fractions, each approximating one-tenth of the 
original volume, while noting the limiting temperatures in 
Centigrade and the specific gravity of each fraction in Baumé 
degrees. 
The Standard Oil Company, under the title Forest Oil Com- 
pany, but later changed to Prairie Oil and Gas Company, en- 
tered the field in 1895; in 1897 it built a 500-barrel refinery at 
Neodesha. Within the last two years it has built a refinery at 
Kansas City, Mo., with a pipe system branching into Kansas 
