The Arkoma basin of southeastern Oklahoma is characterized by long, steeply folded anticlines, dry gas production, and no oil. One of the most prolific gas reservoirs in the area is the Hartshorne Sand, of early Desmoinesian age, productive at 1,000-4,000 ft. This sandstone produces gas in the Poteau-Gilmore field on the Gilmore anticline, at Cameron field on the Midland anticline, at Red Oak-Norris on the Brazil anticline, and at Quinton-Carney-Featherston and Kinta fields on the Kinta anticline.

The first commercial gas well in the Quinton field was completed in September, 1915, with an open-flow potential of 25 million cu. ft. of gas daily from the Hartshorne Sand. Subsequent drilling along the structural axis of the anticline found the Blocker-Featherston, Carney, and Kinta fields. The significance of the "structural" accumulation of gas on the Kinta anticline was not fully understood until Pine Hollow gas field was discovered and developed nearly 50 years after the completion of the discovery well at Quinton. It now appears that the Hartshorne Sand is producing from stratigraphic traps in a series of off-shore bar deposits that extend from Pine Hollow to Kinta.

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