226 University Geological Survey of Kansas. 
are so large as to compare favorably with the best of the wells 
drilied in Montgomery county two years ago. Wells ranging 
from two to thirty million cubic feet per day seem to be com- 
paratively common. 
Another commercially important field developed within the 
past year lies to the east of Fredonia. The wells here are not 
very large, ranging from three to five million cubic feet, but 
the field is so situated that the flow is consumed by various 
near-by manufacturing industries. In a similar manner con- 
siderable development has been made to the northeast of Cha- 
nute, or southeast of Humboldt, near the southern line of Allen 
county. This field extends eastward more than half way to 
Savonburg. The wells here, likewise, are comparatively small, 
but in the aggregate produce a large quantity of gas. Still an- 
other field of equal importance is just now being developed 
near Hale, in the northeast part of Chautauqua county. Wells 
from three to five million cubic feet per day are comparatively 
common. 
An interesting small gas-field has been opened up near Elm- 
dale, in the Cottonwood river valley, near Cottonwood Falls. 
Here is a well-marked anticlinal ridge. A member of the Kan- 
sas State Geological Survey suggested to certain citizens of Elm- 
dale that it would be a good place to prospect for gas. Accord- 
ingly a number of wells were drilled only a few hundred feet 
deep and a flow of shallow gas was obtained. The wells vary in 
flow from 500,000 to 1,000,000 cubic feet per day. A similar 
condition exists to the southwest in the vicinity of Augusta, 
where shallow but good gas is obtained in a number of wells. 
The anticlinal ridge is not so fully marked there as at Elmdale. 
The now somewhat famous gas at Dexter is obtained from a 
similar anticlinal ridge, but the quality of the Dexter gas is so 
different from that at Elmdale and Augusta as to cause one to 
think that it comes from an independent pool. 
The gas-field at Arkansas City continues to be very interest- 
ing. It is similar to the Augusta-Elmdale field. The gas is 
first-class in quality and is much greater in quantity than has 
as yet been developed at either of the other two places. A flow 
of gas has been developed sufficient to supply Arkansas City 
and still leave a surplus. What future developments will bring 
forth, of course, is largely conjecture, but it looks as though 
important developments may be expected in this district near 
and between Elmdale and Arkansas City. 
