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Excerpt from Iowa Geological Survey Report, 1908, Vol. 18 Another source Of fuel is natural gas, and Iowa continues to produce this in small quantities. The Letts gas field has been furnishing gas for fuel and lights, and even for the operation Of gas engines, for quite a number of years without showing any material diminution either in the pressure or the supply. N at ural gas has been found at Herndon and at a few other localities in Iowa. Our gas wells are all shallow. As intimated on page 24, volume XII, the gas reservoirs are lenticular bodies of sand or gravel in the drift clays covering the state. The source of the gaseous fuel is very probably the Pleistocene forests which are known to be buried in the drift, or the peat beds which ao cumulated during the interglacial stages and were covered with later sheets of till. There is reason to expect that similar small gas fields may exist in many localities where they have not yet been discovered, but nothing has thus far come to light which would hold out any hope of success in exploring the rock for mations beneath the drift for gas or oil. From the best knowl edge now at hand it may be said that the field most likely to reward the driller for gas and oil lies in southern and south western Iowa. It is quite possible, especially in the southwest, that the geological conditions underlying Iola and Neodesha, Kansas, may exist in some limited areas which have not yet been explored by the drill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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