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- 1 2 "Ellis County, Kansas; City of Chetolah". KSGenWeb. Archived from the original on 6 June 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ↑ N. W. Bass. Geologic Investigations in Western Kansas with special reference to oil and gas possibilities, Bulletin 11. p. Part I--The Geology of Ellis County, Kansas. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
In 1903 a well was drilled near the center of sec. 10, T. 15 S., R. 20 W. (Darton, 1905), in search of gas for use in mills that were being erected for the extraction of gold from the Carlile shale (Lindgren, 1902)
- ↑ Rex C. Buchanan. "'To bring together, correlate, and preserve'--a history of the Kansas Geological Survey, 1864-1989" . Retrieved November 28, 2020.
I might have learned that Erasmus Haworth had been the first state geologist and director of the present Geological Survey and that he had mapped the structure on which lies the most productive oil field in Kansas, the El Dorado of Butler County.
- ↑ Dan Plazak (2007). "The imaginary gold mines of Kansas" (PDF). Mining History Journal. 14: 11–22. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
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