Driller's logs submitted to the Division of Geology and Land Survey from T. 38N., R. 32W. in Bates Country, Missouri, report domestic gas production during the 1930s and 1940s. Gas pressure of 52 pounds per square inch and estimated production of 50,000 cubic feet per day were reported for Watson No. 1 in Sec. 10. McGennis No. 1 reported 42 pounds per square inch gas pressure in Sec. 16. Pressures of 38 and 40 pounds per square inch were reported form the Joseph Propeck No. 1 in Sec. 21. This gas was produced from rocks assigned to the Cherokee Group (Desmoinesian Series, Pennsylvanian System).

Driller's logs of water wells, mineral tests, and gas wells indicate that gas shows and production were primarily from black, carbonaceous shales, with occasional oil and gas shows from sandstone that occurs from 130 to 422 feet below the surface. In general, these logs fail to record the depth and thickness of coal beds that define the tops of many Cherokee formations. Logs from seven coal tests drilled during the late 1800s or early 1900s record the stratigraphic positions and thickness of black shales in the Pawnee, Little Osage,

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Excello, Verdigris, Croweburg, Fleming, Robinson Branch, Scammon, and Riverton Formations. These holes also record the thickness and position of sandstones in the Weir, Bluejacket, Drywood, Rowe, and Warner Formations. Formational thicknesses derived from coal test logs permit estimation of formational tops and correlation of strata in the water wells, gas wells, and mineral tests.

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