The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-21

ment-like sediment and that It was solidt-
 fled. shell ana body and cemen retained the oil they contained and that pressure did inc rest. Chalk deposits, phosphate deposits are composed of marine fossils.
 but they are not oil yielding Then olI
 was found where vegetable matter had
 been deposited in roeks-then the Veget-
 able theory was buH up.
 Warren and Slower produced oli primarily from fish. Engler, rom hsh oil produced a number of oils, one was so like kerosene that it could not be distinguished from the natural product when refined. SadtIer distilled in 1S9' inseed oil and produced an oil like petroleum It has been proven that pe-
 troleum can be made in the laboratory either from animal or vegetable ma t- ter. From the Dan river shales in Vir-
 einia in 1858 petroleum was pressed from shales at the rate of s2 gallons per ton of shades. Ohio shales have produced at the fate of 20 gallons per ton of shale rock
 Tn the scientific world this seems to be the bacterian age. Almost every known disease and condition IS ac- counted for by reason of the operatloh of bacteria. Professor Morrey says bacteria can produce the distillation el oil and gas. They act in the absence of air and produce hydro cartoons. Re- nault fpund sbacteria in fossils of the Jurasse and carbonlferous epochs. 1 We submit in this paper Il few of
 the. ,nanM facts that we have Tor the reader to draw conclusions from. o'i operators know that in q few places gas has been found at less depth than 500 feet that at depth of 1000 feet and under the number Of prodnc- ing wells increased, and at 2O0O feet and over the gas area ts greatly m creased These facts will not be con reverted The development of ap- pliances for deep drilling leads to the belief that before the close or this century there will be wells that will penetrate to depth or lV,ooo ieet oi over.
 There arc large areas where 1t ls doubtful if natural gas could be foun1 at a depth that would make gas pro ductfon profitable now, or oven 1T we could drill down and down Tor miles and, miles into the earth. The fol- lowing are some of the requisites Tor gas production: Upheavals by volcanlc agencies must have occurred In the field. and the creyasses must have been kept open from below long enough Tor internaI gases 10 force up from the central reservoir and to penetrate the rnrns rock: and fill the interstates: un- der1y strata; mpervious covering; pofo- slty of rock strata faults, dykes and disbursements as well as fused ma ierial are some of the indications, con ditions and environments that enable the geologist to draw conclusions as 60 the value and location of formative and seepage fields
 Ii is not now seriously doubted that all natural gases are constantly forming or reforming, Just as our air and water are being supplied anew each day Just as new rays of light come to us. Gas and oil fields have been elassiiled as formative and seepage fields or basins Inf the old ideas s 10 gas were uns long ago the supply would doubtless |baVe been exhausted, will believe that gas will be exhausted when soils are oxhausted when the constructive power Of the Creator is eNhausted-untll then [ will expect the supply to be like every other element created
 In our next we will discuss methods of gas formation as directly affecting our natural gas supply, and formation fields for the use of man In the cen turies yet unborn as his needs or ne- Cessities require.