In June, 1914, oil was discovered in the Augusta gas field, central Butler county, Kansas. A number of wells were quickly drilled, and it was shortly demonstrated that here was one of the important oil fields of the state. The following year, 1915, guided by geologic evidence of favorable structure in the vicinity of El Dorado, some fifteen miles to the northeast, the Empire Fuel and Gas Company drilled a well which found commercial production of oil in two different sands. This was the beginning of the El Dorado field, one of the most important in the Mid-continent region. Production...
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