The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-02-22
Indications of Oil.

ny IN Zee SIMPLE. such an amount of territory it
is also believed has never before been placed in any
company Of this character.
indications of Oil.
The territory of the company has been leased by
careful and competent agents. who have-spared no
pains expense TO secure the best tracts IN the
rioUs localities. Several very remarkable oil /
springs have been discovered, while gas lets sulphur
springs, salt ticks and deposits Of asphatum or So
lidifel petroleum. of frequent occurrence. The /
shale, also, and much Of the limestone with which |
thecomPany''s lands abound, are completely satu- I
rated with oil, and when placed in the fire ignite
and burn like the best camel coal. In short, all the
indications most relied upon by oil men in Pennsyl-
vania, West Virginia and Kentucky, are found in /
abundance, while valuable deposits of non, COAL |
lead, clay, etc, known to exist the territory
OF the company
4 special correspondent of the Pittsburg oil |
Ne1cs writing for that journal recently, from Ten
ncssee, says:
.sThe oil region of Tennessee embraces about J.
8O0square miles and the following counties parts
Of counties: Robertson, Montgomery, Dickson, /
Hickman, Lewis, Lawrence, Wayne; the greater
rem, Coffee, Franklin, Perry, HUMPHREYS, Stewart,
Macon, considerable portions of Jackson Cannon,
Lincoln, Giles, HARM, Williamson, Cheatham,
sumner; and small portions of Smith, Van Buren,,
GTundy, Maury and Davidson.
''The Indications of oil in this division very
much superior to those in any other portion of the
State In Overton and other counties adjoining the
Burkesville region, in kentucky, a considerable
number of paving wells are already in operation-
Ia Lincoln Giles, Lawrence, Lewis, Hickman, etc,
there has been development yet, but parties who
have visited the different sections of the State OF
OPINION That these counties are unsurpassed IN their
richness oil territory. The limestone is often so
impregnated with oil that piece just broken of
will burn brightly, and the shale has the odOr OF
petroleum and will ignite like coal. The sandstone
Is also often found completely saturated with OIL.
In addition to these indications, oil springs, tar
springs gas springs. sulphur springs, etc. ETC.,
Of frequent occurrence. In several places, the oil
gathered in such quantities twenty or thirty
years ago as to be put up in bottles and sold. Tar
springs, although not as numerous as oil springs,
are nevertheless occasionally found, there being
several very remarkable ones bothin Tennessee and
Alabama. The explosions of petroleum gas in sew
eraI countiesln Tennessee have frequently been SO
powerful as to throw large rocks from their posi-
tiOns and seriously alarm the people living in the
vicinity. Sulphur springs are found everywhere
around the stones and in the valleys As all the
oil yet obtained in Kentucky and Tennessee has
had a strong sulphur SMELL these springs are con-
sdered among the best of all the Indications of oil
Saltsprings very numerous also, ard in several
localities very considerable deposits of asphatum,
or solidifed petroleum. have been discovered.
upon all the creeks thatfiow into the Tennessee
river, from Chattanooga to Fort Henry, these indi
cations exist in greater or less degIee. Upon Elk
and Duck rivers and their tributaries particularly,
they are unexcelIed. OF rivers flowing into the
Cumberland, Obeys, Caney Fork and HaTpeth have
all very encouraging indications"
as follows:
''The geological formation Of North Alabuma va
ries in essential particulars from that Of Middle
Tennessee. Upon all the creeks that flow into the
Tennessee, either side, from where It enters the
State in Jackson county, to where it passes out in
Lauderdale, the sandstone limestone and shale are
found in alternate groups In places the sand
stone IN the beds of the streams at times of low
ter in summer, can be found completely saturated
with oil for distance of several rods, The lime
stone, also, is considerably impregnated with it,
while much of the shae is the equal of the best
the most remarkable beds of the latter to be found
in the country, upon several Of the creeks emp
tying into the Tennessee river.
Mineral springs are abundantin North Alabama.
Several very fine oil springs have been discovered,
and upon a large number of streams oil has been
found floating on the surface of the water. Upon
8 &l,o FL 1-k--eo -1PE
county, it was formerly gathered in considerable
quantities, and in digging mil-race, several years
ago, the wOrkmen used to Gil their boots with the
oil which eXuded from the rocks. Tie company
has lease of this land. Tar springs, also, are
sometimes found. One of the most noticeable of
these is on CapPs creek, hich flows into the Bushy
Fork Of Sipsey, in Lawrence county. The water
runs out of a crevice in the limestone, and the tar,
or bitumen, gathers on the surface.
every large deposits of asphaltum have in some
instances been found. One is situated the tOPof
a hill three hundred feet high in Lawrence county.
Before the works had been erected for its dis
tiuation, and large amount of oil shipped to New
York. Gas springs quite frequently seen, and
sulPhursprings are as numerous as they are in Mid
die Tennessee.
''The prospect for oil in North Alabama, how
ever, does not rest upon surface indications merely
In 1888, pGrty of workmen sinking artesian
River, struck oil at depth of little six hun
dred feet, which flowed upwards of seven weeks,
covering the surface of the river for distance of
more than fifty miles. 1t has often been the case
too in sinking ordinary wells, that oil hascOme in
to them IN such quantity to render the water1n-
fit for An instance of this kind occurred on
the banks of the Muscle Shoals several years snce
Upon Shoal, Cowpens, Blue Water, Sugar, Bluff
and Second Creeks, in Lauderdale county, Spring
in Franklin, Town and Big Nance in Lawrence
Flint and Cotaco in Morgan, Limestone and Tyrone
in Limestone, and Flint, Hurricane, etc. in Madi-
son, the indications Of oil not exceeded by those
of any portion Of the great oil range within the
States Of Kentucky, Tennessee or Alabama. Ter
T1toTy having equally good indications can doubt
less be found elsewhere IN the latter State, but its
distance from transportation must for the present.
considerably lesseni its value"
There is scarcely u locality above mentioned in
which the Company not the first, among the
first, to lease oil lands and it has, therefore, Proba
bly, alarger amount Of well selected territory than
any Company in the country.
Prof. SafTOrd's Geological Survey.
A geological survey of these lands has just been
made by Prof. NJ Stafford, late State Geologist of
Tennessee, who spent two months in their exami-
nation. His report, which, together with care
fully prepared map Of the territory, win be
completed and published for the information of
stockholders and others interested, states that Its
geological formation is the same as that Of Penn
sylvania kentucky and OveTton county, and that
there can be no doubtwhatever of the existence of
petroleum throughout the entire region of country
where it is located Aside from Prof SattOrd's high
reputation as geOlogist, the fact that sis views
with regard to the geology of this seetiOn, have
been adopted by all the most eminent members of
his profession in the country who have visited it.
entities his report to the very highest consdera-
ton.
= 3 Working Capital, Etc. r.-
The Board of Directors have placed 5000 shares
of the stock in the market be sold at SO 90 per
share, to raise working capital and in Gaze sub
scTiptiOns in any county are snficieht TO pay for
putting down one more wells, the amount so cub
scribed will be expended in that county, In this
way particular localities will have all the benefit OF
the development and of the expenditure Of the
amount raised by them. This is proposition the
Directors believe, which the inhabitants of every
county where the Company have lands, who de-
sire to know their value for mining purposes,
should be sure to avail themselves of.
The Company already have four oil boring ma
chimes in Tennessee, and one ia Alabama ready to
commence operations, and hope have at least five
wells going down in a very short time. Their ter
Titory also is so great and varied extent as to Sc
cure for them nOtOnly the benefit OF their own de-
velopment but Of that Of the numerous other com
Pauies whose lands are situated in the vicinity of
their own. Of these, quite large number are put
ting down wells in the immediate vicinity of lands
Of the Company, and if successful this fact alone
viii doubtless make It's stock worth nearer par
than its present subscription price. Superinten-