Editing Gas, Kansas (section)

==History==
When [[natural gas]] was discovered in Elm Township in the summer of 1898 E.K. Taylor sold {{convert|60|acre}} of his farm to some [[spelter]] companies and in October sub-divided the remainder into lots, which was the beginning of "Gas City". The place grew rapidly, the cheap fuel afforded by the immense supply of natural gas bringing in a number of large manufacturing plants of various kinds. In 1910 the population was 1,281, and the city had a bank, a daily and a weekly newspaper, an opera house, an international money order postoffice (first opened in August 1899<ref>{{Cite web| title=Kansas Post Offices Database| url=http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/places/postoffices.htm| publisher=Kansas State Historical Society| accessdate=2007-12-15}} Containing information taken from {{Cite book| first=Robert W| last=Baughman| title=Kansas Post Offices, May 29, 1828–August 3, 1961| publisher=Kansas Postal History Society}}</ref>) from which mail was distributed to the surrounding country by rural free delivery, several good mercantile houses, telegraph and express offices.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia| editor=Frank W. Blackmar| title=Gas| url=http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/g/gas.html| accessdate=2007-12-15| encyclopedia=Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc ...| volume=I| publisher=Standard Pub Co| location=Chicago| year=1912| pages=713| url-status=dead| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203044616/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/g/gas.html| archivedate=2007-12-03}}</ref>