The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-05-17
OIL AND MINING co.
Indications Of Oil.

rious localities. Several very remarkable OIL
springs have been discovered while gas Jets sulphur
springs salt ticks and deposits of asphaltum, or So
Edied petroleum, are of frequent occurrence. The :
shae, also, and mueh of the limestone with which
tEe eOmpany's lands abound, are completely satu-
rated with oil, and when placed in the fire ignite
and burn like the best camel coal In short, Ell tbs
indications most relied upon by oil men in Pennsyl-
wanna; west Virginia and kentucky, are found IA
abundance, while valuable deposits of iron, coal,
lead, clay, etc, are known to exist the territory
OF tho company.
A special correspondent of the Pittsburg OF
Aears, writing for that journal recently, from Ten
sThe oil region of Tennessee embraces about g.
S00square miles, and the following counties or parts
of countless Robertson. MONTGOMERY. Dickson,
Hickman, Lewis, Lawrence, Wayne; the greater
portions of Oyerton, Putnam, White, DeKalb, War
rem, Coffee, Frank Perry, IIumphries, Stewart,
Macon, considerable portions of Jackson, Cannon,
Lincoln, Giles, Har in, Williamson, Cheatham
sumner; and small portions of Smith, Van Buren,,
Grundy, Maury and Davidson.
THE indications of oil in this division are very
mach superior to those in any other portion of the
State In Overton and other counties adjoining the
BurkesvlIle region, in Kentucky, considerable
number Of paying wells already in operation
In Lincoln, Giles, Lawrence Lewis, Hickman, etc..
there has been no development yet, but parties who
have visited the different sections Of the State are OF
opinion that these counties unsurpassed in their
richness oil territory The limestone is often so
/ impTegnated with oil that piece Just broken off
viii 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. are
D OF frequent occurrence. In several places,
was gathered IN such quantities twenty or thirty
years ago as 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 ia sew
eral counties in Tennessee have frequently been 20
/ 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 slopes and IN the valleys. AS all the
oil yet obtained in Kentucky and Tepnessee has
had strong sulphur smell, these springs are con-
sidered among the best of all the indications of OIL
SaIt springs are very numerous also, ard in several
localities very considerable deposits of asphaltum
OF solidifed petroleum, have been discovered.
"Upon all the creeks 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 partfcularl1
\ they unexceed. OF rivers flowing into the
Cumberland. Obeys, Caney Fork and Harpeth have
! all very encouraging indications"
/ Of North Alabama the same correspondent writes
] rs follows:
"The geological formation of North AIabuma va
ries in essential particulars from that of Middle
! Tennessee. Upon all the creeks that flow into the
Tennessee on either side from where 81 enters the
State in jackson county, to where il passes out in
/ Lauderdale the sandstone, limestone and shale
found in alternate groups. In places the sand
stone the beds of the streams, times of low wa
ter In summer, can be found completely saturated
with oil for distance of several rods. The lime
/ store, also, is considerably impregnated with it
! while much of the shale is the equal Of the best
| camel coal inits oil producing properties Some of
the most remarkable beds Of the latter to be found
in the country, upon several of the creeks emp
Mineral springs are abundant in North Alabama.
Several very fine oil springs have been discovered,
| and upon laI &c 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 mill-race, several years
ago the worl,men used to Gil their boots with the
| oil which eXuded from the rocks. The company
has a lease of this land Tar springs, also, are
| sometimes found One Of the most noticeable of
these Is Capp's creek W heh flows into the Bushy
Fork o. SiPsey, in Lawrence county. The water
out Of crevice in the limestone, and the tar
or btumen, gathers the surface
/ every large posits Of asPhaltum have in some
instances been found One Is situated the top Of
hill three hundred feet high, in Lawrence county
Before the works had been erected for its dis
hliaton, and large amouns Of oil shipped to New
1ork. Gas springs are quite frequently seen, and
suphursprlngs are as numerous Us they are in Mid
die Tennessee.
ss'The prospect for oil IN North Alabama how
ever does not rest upon surface indications merely
In 1888, party of workmen sinking an artesian
well upon one of the tributaries of the Tombobee
River struck oil ct depth of little over six hun
bred feet, which flowed upwards of seven weeks,
covering the surface of the river for distance o
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 to render the water IN
ut for use. An instance of this kind occurred on
the banks Of the Muscle Shoals several years since.
Upon Shoal, Cowpens, Blue Water, Sugar, Bluff
and Second Creeks, in Lauderdae county, Spring
in Franklin, Town and Big Nance ia Lawrence,
Flint and CotacO in Morgan, Limestone and Tyrone
! in Limestone and Flint, Hurricane, etc. in Madi-
SON. the indications of oil are not exceed ed by those
| Of any portion of the great oil range within the
/ States OF Kentucky, Tennessee or Alabama. Ter
ritoTy having equally good indications can doubt
less be found elsewhere in the latter State but its
distance from transportation must, for the present,
considerably lessen its vRlue.''
There is scarcely locality above mentioned in
when the COMPANY was not the first, or among the
first, to lease oil lands and it has, therefore proba
bly, larger amount Of well selected territory than
any Company in the country.
Prof. sahord's Geological Survey.
geological survey of these lands has just been
! j M ord ia tat Ceolc oF
| Tennessee who spent two months in their exami-
1 nation His report, which, together with care
[ fully prepared map Of the territory, viii be
! completed and published for the information of
stockholders and others Interested states that its
geological formation is the same as that Of Penn
/ syIVania, Kentucky and OveTton county, and that
there be no doubt whatever Of the existence OF
petroleum throughout the entire region Of country
WheFe - is located Aside from Prof. SahOrds high
reputation geologist, the fact that his views
! with regard 70 the geology Of this section, have
/ been adopted by oil the most eminent members Of
his profession in the country who have visited IT,
/ ton.
Working Capital, Etc.
/ The Board Of Directors have placed 5000 shares
Of the stock in the Market TO DC sold $40 90 per
share, to raise working capital and in Gaze sub
scriPtions in any county are sufficient 70 pay for
putting down one or more wells, the amountso cub
scribed viii be expended in that county. In this
way particular localities viii have all the benefit Of
1 inc oeFeiopmeht aila OF Ihe 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 me-
chimes in Tennessee and one in Alabama, ready to
commence operations, and hope to have at least hvo
wells going down in very short time. Their ter
TtOry also Is great and varied in extent As 70 Sc
cure for them not only the benefit Of their own de-
velopment but Of that Of the numerous other com
panes whose lands are situated in the vicinity Of
their own. Of these, quite alarge number are put
ting down wells in the immedfate vicinity Of lands
Of the Company, aud il successful this fact alone
IL !. afa
than its present subscription price. Superinten-
dents for the various projected wells have also been
perience in the oil regions Of Pennsylvania aed
West Virginia.