The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-07-19
OIL AND MINING co,
Indications of OIL.

sis ar e,reTse TO secure the best tracts in the va
iious localities Several very remarkaDle OIL
springs salt ticks sd deposits Of asPhalJum, or So
iidffef petroleum, are Of frequent occurrence The
sbaIa also, and muck Of she limestone with which
theeompauy's lands abound are completely sa tu-
ratea with oh and when placed in the nre grI5S
alJ burn like the btst eanaelcoJ ia snort at TN
indications most relied upon ~ oil men IN Fennsyl-
yania West virginia and Kentucky are found IL
abundance, while valuable deposits Of iron, coalJ
lead, clay, etc, arc known 70 exist On 'ue eii0oiJ
4 speciai correspondent of the Pittsburg on
Aeare WI Sing for that Journal recently, from Ten
.sThe oil region of Tennessee embraces about o.
SG0square miles, and the following counties or parts
of countless Robertson, Montgomery Dickson
Hickman, Lewis, Lawrence, Wayne; the greater
portions of OvertOn, Putnam, White, Dehalb, War
rem, Coffee, Franklin, Perry, Eumphries, Stewart,
Macon, considerable portions OF Jaeksolls CaiHoH'
Lincoln, Giles, Har in, Williamson, Cheathamg
sumner; and small portions of Smith, Van Buren,,
Grundy, Maury and Davidson
THE Indications of oil in this division are very
much superior TO those in any othor portion OF the
State. In Oyerton and other counties adjoining the
! Burkesvillo region, in Kentucky, considerable
number of paying wells arc already in operation
In Lincoln, Giles, Lawrence, Lewis Hickman, ETC.,
there has been no deyelopment yet but parties who
have visited the diereat sections of the State of
opinion that these counties are nsurpassed in their
richness oil territory. The limestone is often
( imprcgnated with oil that piece Just broken OIL
/ viii burn brightly, and the shnle 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 are
Of frequent occurrence IN several Places tue OIL
was gathered in such quantities twenty or thirty
years ago to be p-t up in bottles and sold, Tar
! springs, although noe numerous oil springs,
! are nevertheless occasionally found, there being
several very remarkable ones bothin Tennessee and
/ Alabama. The explosions of petroleum gas in sew
cra counties IN Tennessee have frequently been so
powerful to throw large rocks from their posi-
| tons and seriously alarm the people living in the
( vicinity Sulphur springs found everywhere
/ around the slopes and in the valleys. As all the
! oil Yet obtained ia Kentucky and Tennessee has
had strong sulphur smell, these springs are con-
sdered among the best Of all the indications Of oil.
Salt springs are very numerous also, ard IN several
localities very considerable deposits of asphaltum.
or 5odifed petroleum, have been discovered.
"Upon all the creefs that flow into the Tennessee
river from Chattanooga to Fort Henry, these indi-
cations exist IN greater or less degree. Upon Elk
and Duck rivers, and their tributaries particularly,
| they uneXcelied. OF rivers flowing into the
/ Cumberland, Obeys, Caney Fork and HaTpeth have
all very encouraging indications.n
Of North Alabama the same corresponds writes
as follows:
RIGS in essential particulars from that of Middle
Tennessee. Upon all the creeks that flow into the
Tennessee, on either side, from where It enters tho
State IN Jackson county, to where 1t passes OUT IN
Lauderdae, 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 wa
ter in summer be found completely saturated
with oil for distance of several rods. The lime
store, also, Is considerably lmpregnated with IL
while much of the shaie is the equal Of the best
camel coal in its oil producing properties. Some
the most remarkable beds of the latter, be found
tvimg into the Tennessee rlver
! 'Mineral springs are abundant in North Alabama.
Several very fine oil springs have been discovered,
| and upon Ian &c number Of streams OIL has been
found floating the surface of the water. Upon
I one of the tributaries of Flint river in Madison
| county, it formerly gathered in considerable
quantities, and in digging mill race several years
ago, the workmen used to Gil their boots with the
oil which eXuded from the rocks. The company
has Il lease of this land Tar springs, also, arc
sometimes found. One Of the most noticeable of
these is on Capps creek, heh flows into tho Bpshy
Fork Of Sipscy, in Lawrence county The water
runs out of erevice in the limestone, and the tar
/ or bitUmen, gathers on the surface.
every large posts of asphaltum have in some
instances been found. One Is situated tho top of
| a hin three hundred feet high, in Lawrence county
Before the war works hadboen erected for its dis
tillation, and large amount Of oil shipped TO New
! York. Gas springs are quite frequently SEEM and
sulphur springs arc as numerous rs they are in Mid
/ die Tennessee.
''The prospect for oil in North Alabama how
ever, does not upon surface indications merely.
In 1888, Perty Of workmen sinking an aTtesian
well upon of the tributaries Of the TOmbigbee
RIVER, struck OIL at depth OF little over SIX nun
dred feet, which hewed upwards of seven weeks,
covering the surface Of tho river for distance
more than fifty miles. 1t has often been the case,
too, in sinking ordinary wells, that oil has come in
to them in such quantity render the water
it for An instance of this Kind occurred on
the banks of the Muscle Shoals several years
Upon Shoal, COwpens, Blue Water, Sugar, Bluff
4 and Second Creeks, in LaudeTdale county, Spring
| ia 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
ritory having equally good Indications can doubt
less be found elsewhere in the latter State but it's
distance from transportation must for the present
considerably lessen its value"
Thcreis scarcely locality above mentioned in
which the Company not the first or among the
FIRST to lease oil lands and it has, therefore, pToba
bly, larger amount Of well selected territory than
any Company ia the country.
Pref. SafIOrd's Geological survey
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 D care
fully prepared map Of the territory, viii soon 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 Overton county and shat