The Petroleum Journal from Topeka, Kansas • 6

6 THE PETRO'LEUM JOURNAL A REVIEW OF THE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE EAST CENTRAL KANSAS DEFORMATION. The Oklaho ma State Oil and Gas Conservation bureau has received a report to the effect that some of the wells in the Covington field have produced oil which contains such a high percentage of gasoline that it has been used as automobile fuel without undergoing any By J. A. Pynch, of the Geology Department, Fairmount College, Wichita. The attorney general of Oklahoma, in an opinion to the state auditor, has held that the payment of gross production tax on oil does not relieve the owner from paying income tax.

The question was presented by oil men who were of the impression that they are not liable for the income tax after paying the gross production tax. During the past year the petroleum industry of Kansas has shown a marked increase in wildcatting activity thru the west central portion of the state. The partial reason for this may be due to the disappointment met with in the northward prolongation of the Augusta-Eldorado field. The unexpected conditions which were found there have caused a sporadic scattering of rigs from the main structure in the northern end to lateral tests now being carried on in northern Chase and adjacent counties. Kansas may be divided into four unequal but main stratigraphic horizones.

Approximately the eastern one-third of the state contains the outcrops of the Cherokee Shales and the lower and upper coal measures of the Pennsylvanian or Carboniferous. The western boundary of the Pennsylvanian is roughly marked by the Flint Hills. These hills in turn contain the main outcrop, except for occasional and scattered outliers, of the Wreford Limestone, the lowest stratigraphic member of the Permian, corresponding to the Wichita of Texas. The distribution of the Permian, outcrops is triangular in outline, stretching across the state along this meridian. The apex of the triangle reaches up into southeastern Nebraska and the base, widens as the western horizon crosses the southern boundary of Kansas about thirty degrees west of south A merger of the oil interests of the syndicate headed by J.

Ogden Armour of Chicago, with those controlled by Henry L. Doherty and company of New York, has been announced. This was brought about by Cities Service company purchasing the Armour refinery at Independence, payment being made in Cities Service preferred stock, which is to be retained by the Armour group for a period of years. The Armour interests have also invested by a further purchase of Cities Service preferred stock, enabling pipe line extensions from the refinery to the Doherty oil holdings in Kansas. The Independent refinery has a daily capacity of 3,000 barrels, and owns a pipe line to the field in Nowata County, where the Doherty company also has production.

Cities Service interests have also bought the oil leases on 101,000 acres in the Eastern Kentucky field from the L. G. Neely interests of Ohio. The present production in this field is 1,500 barrels daily, selling at $2.23 per barrel. By this purchase the Doherty interests, represented by the Empire Oil Gas company, control 65,000 of this 101,000 acres, with partial interest in the remainder.

This includes a 55,000 barrels storage tank and a 10 mile pipe line from the field to Irvine, Kentucky, where there are transportation facilities by rail, water and pipe The total leased acreage in this field of the Empire Oil Gas company now becomes 148,000 acres. Have Passed Away P. T. Delaney, aged 37, a wealthy oil man of Haskell, bought a sixshooter, went to his room at the Alta Vista hotel, and fired a bullet into his brain, at Muskogee, last Friday night. He was dead when found.

Delaney leaves a widow and five children. He was owner of valuable leases and two strings of tools. PROF. J. A.

PYNCH of Fairmount College, Wichita, Kansas, who has made extensive surveys of the Mid-Continent fields. Don C. Henderson, aged 66 years, died last Thursday at Pleasantville, after a short illness with toxemia. He was born in New York City, but came to Pleasantville when quite young. He operated a grocery store, and was also extensively interested in the oil industry.

He is survived by his wife. James A. Walsh, of Sheffield, Warren county, one of the best known oil drillers in the eastern field, died at the Oil City, hospital at 3 oclock on Sunday morning, following an operation for gall stones. He had been identified with the oil business since the latter 70s, but his greatest -activities were in the Bradford, Butler, Elk and Warren county fields. He was the driller who brought in the great gusher at Balltown, Grandin No.

3, which had an initial production of more than 1,000 barrels and which caused a break in the exchange price of crude certificates of 14 cents in two days. Mr. Walsh is survived by his wife and four children. two-thirds of the way across the state and passes out and across the panhandle of Oklahoma near its eastern end into Texas. From the western limits of the Permian to the 100th meridian the Cretaceous reaches across the state outcropping along its eastern border thru the western borders of Gray, Dickinson, Marion and Reno counties.

Eocene beds cover the remainder of the state from the 100th meridian westward. A major axis of deformation passes from the Black-well field of Oklahoma just south of the state line up thru Butler, Chase and Morris counties, and northward. Its approximate direction is north 18 degrees east. A gentler cross folding flattens the main trend of this deformation, its effect being evidenced in the spacing of rich spots such as the Douglass, Gordon, Augusta and Eldorado pools. Passing northward from Eldorado, however, the trouble begins, for although this series of anticlines and synclines, such as the Burns anticline, the Ceder Creek syncline and the Elm dale and Neva anticline, continue the main structure, the oil sands are lacking and wells are abandoned after being well anchored in granite.

The question arises as to whether there is a granite core or base involved in the lower portion of these fields, only not so accentuated in the Butler fields as in Chase county and northward; or is there a difference in the stratigraphy of the northern and southern portions of this deformation? In other words does the southern portion of this field south Bill Mangle, driller at the Leydig well east of Elbing, was run over by a Rock Island freight train and instantly killed half a mile north of Elbing last Saturday. Mangle was returning from El Dorado in a new Ford auto with tools for the well and his car stopped on the railroad track, while a bob tailed freight was approaching. The engine carried the auto a quarter of a mile. Judge Harry Dedrick, W. M.

Dedrick and W. I. Funk of the Elbing Oil comnanv, hastened from Wichita to the scene as soon as they learned of the fatality and took Mangles body to Peabody where it was sent to Diamond Springs, the home of the dead driller..