248 University Geological Survey of Kansas. 
Very few analyses of the gas are given in these publications, 
and the little attention that has been devoted to the composition 
of the gas is remarkable in view of the large quantities which 
have been and are still used in the state. 
The first analysis which we find is one recorded in Sadtler’s 
report on composition of gas in Pennsylvania (loc. cit.) by 
Prof. I. 8. Newberry and Professor Morley, who give the fol- 
lowing composition of the gas from the Neff well, near Gam- 
bier, Ohio: 
TABLE No. 13. NEFF WELL, GAMBIER, OHIO. 
OXYGEN iF. weds stele he clatere crores told neato tewaede Pero amerecs 0 
Carbon: Gioxidccciinens eee eee eee 0 
Carbon: monoxids. sas tieaseone se eee 0. 
Methane isi. acces ccivere or cesiere et cE ne 81 
Pe thane vies sre cne tie duccdista eer iI ree 12 
4 
00 bo I OOo OO 
100.0 
Specific gravity: Calculated, 0.64; observed, 0.65. 
An approximate analysis of Findlay, Ohio, gas was made by 
Emerson McMillan, superintendent of the Columbus gas-works, 
in 1885. He found the percentage of methane to equal or ex-. 
ceed 90 per cent. 
About the only other published analyses of Ohio gases are 
those of Prof. Curtis C. Howard, of Starling Medical College. 
These have been much copied, and a number of references to 
them are given. No description is given of the methods used 
by Professor Howard in these analyses: 
TABLE No. 14. ANALYSES OF OHIO NATURAL GASES BY C. C. HOWARD. 
1 2 3 4 5 
Hy Grogenis ae. b-c1e oie tee ee 2 18 0.55 1.89 1.64 1 74 
Methane rey... io.tcuer ns ik 92 61 90.48 92.84 93 35} 938.85 
Olefiantigasi 2 Boe cscinc+ sete 0 30 0 30 0.20 |- 0.35 0.20 
Carbon monoxid.............. 0.50 0.15 0.55 0.41 0.44 
Carbonidioxid| ren eee eee: 0 26 0.25 0 20 0 25 0.23 
Oxy @en’.2 ase: he shire eet 0 34 0 15 0.35 0 39 0.35 
Nitrowentecs: pee nee cee 3 61 8 12 3.82 3.41 2.98 
Hydrogen sulfid.............. OF 20 eer eee 0 15 0 20 0.21 
100.00 | 100 00 | 100 00! 100 00; 100.00 
1. Gas from Trenton limestone at Findlay.189 
2. Gas from the Thurston field, Clinton limestone.139 
3. Fostoria gas, from Water-tanks wells.140 
4, Findlay gas. Six wells of Findlay Gas Light Company.140 
5. St. Marys gas. Wilkins well.140 
139. Geol. Surv. of Ohio, 4th series, vol. 1, p. 125, Report on Oil and Gas. 
140. These analyses are published in 8th Ann. Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv., pt. 2, 
p. 592; also, p. 646. 
