The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-03-01
OIL AND MINING co.


careful and competent agents, who have spared no
pains or expense to secure the best tracts in the
springs have been discovered while gas lets sulphur
springs salt ticks and deposits Of asphaltum or So
lidifed petroleum, of frequent occurrence. The
shale also, and much Of the limestone with which
the eompany's lands abound, are completely satu-
rated with oil, and when placed in the fire ignite /
aud burn Ike the best cannelcoal In short, al the
indications mostrelied upon by oil men in Pennsyl
wanna. West Virginia and Kentucky. are found IN |
abundance, while valuable deposits Of iron. coal !
lead, clay etc, known to exist the territory
or the company.
A special correspondent of the Pittsburg oil
Aces, writing for that journal recently, from Ten
FThe oil region of Tennessee embraces about o.
500 square miles, and the following counties parts
Of counties: Robertson, Montgomery, Dickson,
Hickman, lewis, Lawrence Wayne: the greater
portions of OvertOn, Putnam W hite, DeKaIb, War
rem, Coffee, Franklin, Perry, Humplries, Stewart,
Macon, considerable portions of Jackson, Cannon,
Lincoln, Giles, Harain, Williamson. Cheatham,
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 other portion Of the
State. In Overton and other counties adjoining the
BurkesyllIe region, IN Kentucky, a considerable
number Of paying wells are already in operation
Ia Lincoln, Giles Lawrence, Lewis, Hickman, ETC.,
there has been no Development YET but parties who
have visited the different sections Of the State of
opinion that these counties are unsurpassed in their
richness as oil territory. The lmestoneis often so
impregnated with oil that piece Just broken of
viii burn brightly, and the sllale has the odoT of
petroleum and viii ignite like coal. The sandstone
I
In addition to these indicate 9nss oil springs, tar
springs gas springs, sulphur springs, etc, etc.
OF frequent occurrence. In several places, the oil
( was gathered III such quantities twenty or thlrty
years ago to be PIT up in bottles and sold, Tar
springs although NOT numerous as OIL springs,
are nevertheless occasionally found, there being
several very remarkable ones both in Tennessee and
Alabama. The explosions OF petroleum gas in sew
eraI counties IN Tennessee have frequently been so
powerful to throw large rocks from their posi-
lions and seriously alarm the people living in the
vicinity. Sulphur springs are found everywhere
o~- n auIr 1y 0lInvr- A. oil ftnn
/ oil yet obtained in Kentucky and Tennessee has
had z strong sulp hur smell, these springs
sidered 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 soidifed petroleum, have been discovered.
| upon all the creeks that How 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 are unexcelled. OF rivers flowing into the
| Cumberland. Obeys, Caney Fork and Harpeth have
/ all very encouraging Indications"
| OF North Alabama the samecorrespondent writes
/ as follows:
ssThe geological formation of North Alabuma va
res in no essential particulars from that of Middle
! Tennessee. Upon all the creeks thats1ow 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 shaIe are
found in alternate groups In some places the sand
stone the beds of the streams, at times of low
| ter in summer, be found completely saturated
! with oil for distance of several rods. The lime
stone, also, IS considerably impregnated with 1t,
| while much of the shale Is the equal of the best
camel coal Units oil producing properties. Some of
the most remarkable beds OF the latter to be found
in the country upon several of the creeks emp
| tying into the Tennessee river.
''MineraIsPrings are abundantin North Alabama.
Several very fine oil springs have been discovered
and upon large number of streams OIL has been
! found floating on the surface of the water. Upon
one of the tributaries of Flint river in Madison
county, it was formerly gathered in considerable
quantities, and in digging mi-Tace, several years
ago, the woTkmen used to Gil their boots with the
oil which eXuded from the rocks. THE company
has a lease of this land. Tar springs, also,
sometimes found. One Of the most noticeable Of
these IS on Capps creek W hich flows into the Bushy
Fork Of Sipsey, in Lawrence county. The water
out Of a cTevice 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 hi gh in Lawrence county.
tillaton, and large amount OF oil shipped to New
/ York. Gas springs are quite frequently seen, and
sulphur springs as numerous as they are in Mid
/ die Tennossee.
''The prospect for oil in North Alabama, how
ever, does rest upon surface indications merely.
| In 1888, perty of workmen sinking artesian
well upon one of the tributaries of the Tombigbee
River, struck oil at depth of little over six hun
dred feet, which flowed upwards Of seven weeks,
covering the surface Of the river for distance of
more t4an n1Jy miles, It mas often been the case,
too, in sinking ordinary wells that oil has come in
to them IN such quantity to render the waterUn-
NJ lor use. An instance OF TINS KIND occurred on
the banks of the Muscle Shoals several years s1nce
Upon Shoal, Cowpens, Blue Water, Sugar Bluff
/ and Second Greeks, III LaudeTdale 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
/ ritory having equally good indications doubt
less be found elsewhere in the latter State but its
distance from transport alton must for the present.
! considerably lessen its value"
There is scarcely a locality above mentioned in
which the Company not the first, among the
first, to lease Oilands and it has therefore, prOba
bly, larger amount Of well selected territory than
| any Company in the country.