The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-06-07
.OIL COMPANY ID
 TAP DEP0SITARY
It is Believed Oil and Gas Can
 be Found Abundant
MEANS MUCH FOR THE CITY
Appalachian Chain, Which Ends In Alabama, Is Known to Contain the Larger Part of oil and Gas
 In the United States.

The Birmingham Consolidated oil Company. which was recently formed, has determined to make an earnest effort oil and gas depository, and 1t is claimed that they will give tn solution of the matter every effort that experience and intelligence command.
 It Is known that the larger part of the oil and gas of the United States is found in the Apalachian chain, starting in New York, passing through Pennsylvanias West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee and ending in Alabama. It is said that at very point along the line where the Devonian measures are in place, both oil and gas have been found when proper methods have been used.
 Up to the present time there have been but two skilled experts in the field. One of these experts selected two points to bore. The promoters of the nnterprise claim that If they had known in the be- ginning what they now know that there is but little doubt but that oil and gas would have been found in large quanti- ties One of the promoters of the com pany investigated fully matters touching the work of these two experts and the two wells decided on by one of them. He stated that gas was found in both wells. and that immediately upon it's be- ginning to flow. something happened to the boring machinery.
 Found Wells Puzzle.
 The promoters, having no experience, took the word of the expert and gave up further work Recently, however, an effort was made to open one of these cells. but 1t was found securely plugged and 1t was impossible to remove the ob- struction. No doubt the same means were used as to the other well. It is claimed that some one antagonistic to the enterprise who believed 1t was about to be successfully solved, had a hand in it.
 The other expert, after spending large sums of money to secure lands, organized a company and made contracts TOT boring wells He then quietly pulld up and left. It is rumored that he was paid large sum by one of the great oil con cerns.
 It is claimed that the successful settling of this question means much for the Bir- mingham district. Pittsburg doubled It's pODulatiOn on the discovery or gas. II established the tin plate industry and greatly enlarged it's glass manufacturing, and 1t became instead of the drtiest city In America. the cieanest and most pros porous.
 All through West Virginia in the track of the we'll borer, followed innumerable plants In a night almost, millions Of dollars were invested in the glass business in the Indiana gas belt.
 Birmingham Has Best Soft Steel.
 Birmingham has the best soft steel in America; our cost to produce pig iron is less than that of Pennsylvania by SC; we have inexhaustible supplies of the highest grade glass making sand, great beds of kaolin for making china. and all waiting for the discovery of gas for their success full development. Within a year after the fact was fixed that a sure supply of gas was here, our population would double, glass factories, tin plate manufactures and hundreds of other industries would be in full operation.
 The present company claim they have gone at the matter to succeed. Knowing that the Apalachian chain had yielded oil and gas everywhere else they brought the greatest expert known to study the field He has pronounced the conditions such as to warrant the hope of large supply of both oil and gas. They have secured large tracts of land properly located organized