The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-06-06

plement 1t by this statement. that .
Carter county and the city of Ard F.
more are right In the midst of It,"
This statement was made Ivy Prof
Chas y. Gould director of the Ok
lahoma geological survey in an ad-
dress before the Ardmore CONNER.
cial club "A short time ago.
I'm the course OF his address he
said:
The first product | shall discuss f.
fuel You all recognize the fact that
a large amount of fuel Is the most
valuable asset that state or nation
can have. Our complex modern
civilization would be impossible with.
out large amounts Of fuel. The
state or the nation that contains
fuel controls the world Industries
must come TO the fuel. aud Oklahoma
has. so far as We know. as large or
perhaps larger amounts of fuel than
any other state, having, in quaint.
ties which for all practical purposes
are inexhaustible. the three valu
able fuels-coal oil and gas.
About Oil.
In the possible oil field is yuur
Wheeler field. the field at Lawton
and Granite. and some others. In
these areas both oil and gas have
been produced. The Wheeler field
Is the largest of the fields in In
area. ! may say that ! am not WY
well acquainted with the geological
conditions IN the Wheeler field. bus
Mr. Hutchinson. my assistant. who
visited the field a few weeks ago,
brings favorable report Judging
from the geological structure. He Is
inclined to think that ii will de.
velop in area. and that in a few
years 1t will be one of the large
producing fields in Oklahoma.
should say i'm passing that dur
ing the last two years Oklahoma led
the United States in the production
of oil and gas, outstripping both
Texas and California and producing
about forty.five To fifty million bar.
rels per year.
About Coal.
There is really no way of csti
mating accurately the amount of
coal in Oklahoma. Mr.. Taft. the
government geologist, who has
charge of the segregation of the
coal land of the Choctaw and Chick
asaw nations. estimates that the
amount of the coal in the segregated
land is approximately three billion
IONS The greater part of this Sc
gregated land lies in the northern
part of the ChoCtaw nation. You
have within a few miles of the city
Cf Ardmorc a small area of segre-
gated land. with a thin vein of coal.
In time it win be profitable II the
coal i'm the segregated land approNi-
mates three billion tons. the amount
of coal in Oklahoma Will certainly
be as much as six or eight or ten
billions because, at a conservative
estimate. the amount of the coal i'm
the segregated land Is not half OF
the coal In oklahoma. There H.
AS much in the old Cherokee and
Creek country as i'm the Choctaw
country in the unscgrcgated land,
and perhaps more.
You will notice that the fuels are
found in the eastern and southern
part Of the state. Ir We had the
fuels alone the state would be
wealthy, because the other materials
must be brought to the fuels fo
manufacture. as | shall point out
little later The glass which i'
manufactured in southern Kansas is
Peoria, Ill.,. So II oklahoma had tuei
alone. oklahoma would he one ot
the wealthicst states I'm the Union.
Fortunately, Oklahoma has great
many things besides fuel.
Ardmore's Asphalt Deposits.
IN this connection | should discu'
next the mineral which you, mere a.
trdmorc. are most vitality interested
I'm. the asphalt Asphalt, attcr
is nothing but baked out or distilled
petroleum. from which the lighter
volatile oils have escaped ! some
time tell the people in other parts
Of the state that the asphalt de
pOsits in Oklahoma are lncNhausu-
bile. and they call it dream. and !
have sometimes tried TO get those
skcptics 10 come down into this part
of the state. and show them some
of the asphalt deposits. II IL not
necessary that ! enlarge upon the
deposits OF asphalt You know how
they occur The greater part of
them occur along what are called
fault lines fault being a great
fissure or creyicc which extends
from the surface down toward the
center Of the earth, the rocks having
slipped up ON one side and down Oh
the other, and at some unknown
depth beneath the surface this fis-
sure has penetrated a bed of petro
leum. This oil has. through long
geological ages been coming up
along this fssure, and the lighter
oils have escaped, and the heavier
have penetrated the rocks on either
side. so that the veins of rock as
phalt are ten, twenty. fifty hun
dred feet in width. and how deep no
one knows. over near sulphur 1t IL
shown that the veins are some
p times thousand or two thousand
+ feet in depth. and sometimes this
fissure outcrops for miles on the
surface. have stated that down
here near Ardmore II is no uncom
mon thing for man to throw NJ
p asphalt rock in digging post holes
) Ardmore Has Best Paved Streets In
America.
P also tell the people that Ardmore