Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-19
STORY 0F OIL WELLS
 RIVALS ARABIAN TALES
STREAMS OF KNOWN RI CHNESs PASS UNDER A RKANSAS FARM LANDS
Prospectors in Louisiana SD ent Thousands of Dollars
 Be1ore They Finally Tpp ed the Stores of Wealth in ES Bowels of Earth to Reap Rich Harvest-Ar kansas May Share in Such Prosperity ;.

6tudy of tho oil fields and OIL Streams
 of the south, and particularly of Loui-
 Hiana, was printed in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of Wednesday, Sept
 I, which is reprinted in part in The
 Graphic today, through the courtesy
 of the Tmes-Picayune.
 A map which shows the course o1
 the several known oil streams accom-
 banned the article in questlon, and
 this map also is reprinted in The
 Graphic herewith, thanks to the kind
 ness of the New Orleans newspaper
 s The Wmes-Picayune said in part:
 ' 'sThe oil fields of Louisiana are ill
 some respects the most remarkable 1n
 America. In an astonishing short
 time they have come up from noth-
 ing among the oil producing districts
 of the. United States until today they
 occupy fifth place in the roster o1
 states; in which petroleum is found
 They are likely soon to assume third
 place, and it is only a question of
 time when they will rival the fields of
 ICaiifornia, which now are far ina'tle
 dead. G Il s.lo5 o5Ns <
 Last year the Louisfaua;, oA sfiald iproduced the prodigious amount ,,Qf K Y4vsVvVsVuV, UoA ACAo Ol OAAs kAt IANo Es,,S vAiling price. the, sum of money ts-
 ,Aeived for this loil.i Mopldhave more
 hhan paid the state debt Of ;lsousiqIla.
 This does not take into 'coqpsi sidefat|nan K Nhe enormous AvaMe tof sthe.s refined
 products and byproducts of the, crude
 |oil sbf the state, nor the vast sums'!o
 money spent by the adventurers in Hhh, fields: in its, exploration andade- | sVelOpment. v :; i9ia a''
 .The, whole state has s.participated E in the profits from this,' one of itfte most valuable resources Of Louisiana. Prospecting for oil in an unproven field 'is work for braNe' nd adyentur- ous, souls. It is the greatest game in American finance today. It is a gamble de luxe. The man who goes "wild eating" for oil, seeking fit place in which to delve, is no less of ! an adventurer than the hardy pros pectOr for gold in the mountains of l the West or the tundra of Alaska. Nor K are his profits less if he strikes pay
 Locating the trend of the oiP by surface indication is as fasclnating an adventure as tracing the mother lode by some out-cropping of gold on a COlarado inountainside.
 Three Vast Strata.
 In a general way, the trend of oil
 bearing sands is known to be from the North to the South in three vast underground strata. These strata are believed to be of glac ial origin. Where they originate in ths frozen North or where they trail off into nothingness m the tropical South the geologists Ct0 hv, If hov trailed to 9 junction at or near Shreveport, La, whence they SC south, traversing the depth of the state, to lose tn amselves beneath the bed of the Gulf of Mexico. Off Sabine Pass, in the Gulf of Mexico, there bubbles to the surface of the water a vast quantity of green crude petrole- am. In the stOrmiest weather the
 waters are stilled by the floating oil and thither small craft flee when the wind drives the waves high for with. In this oleaginous circle they are safe from the buffetings of the sea until 1.-the wind dies away.
 Continuing southward under the gulf, this united river of oil has been discovered at Tarlpico, in Mexico where the wells are shallower and the volume of oil is greater than fur ther north. It is; believed that Encrmous quantities of oil will be dis covered in Mexico by following the trend sOuthward whenever political conditions in that country make fur ther exploration possible.
 Exploitation Expensive.
 Exploiting a new field is an ex- psnsive operation. When the ad-
 vance guard has found potential oil field he leases the mineral rights of the land from the owner at whatever sum per acre his bargain may bring
 him. Into the lease he writes an agreement to give the owner roy
 atty on all the oil he may produce
 Then he drills his we'll. In the North Louisiana field the oil sands usually are found at an approximate dept of E260O feer, but ill some of the Pennsyl- vRnia districts the drills have gone #d0wn as far as 1000 feet before strik- Ing the oil, while, in the Tampicc, Mexico, field cil has been found at from TOO to 900 feet, and in great RYolume.
 ss".The oil driller must have an fNQuipment that requires a great out lay of money; he must employ soien- Etific workmen who, in the nature Of things, must be highly paid. The cost Aaf drilling an oil well in Louisiana is about $10,000. But when the oil be- |AEti9 to flow, it not only en,iohes the 3Yenturer himself but the owner of Hand, and pours into the pockets K the people, through the banks
 Robbers and supply houses, the IS tho laborers. It makes land therfise would be practically ! Jess almost priceless, and affects VI N factor of local deyeiopme ent.
 .. First Developments
 stJn the North Louisiana field the EYirst development was in the Caddo district, about twenty-three miles north of Shreveport, in Caddo :parish. |Ihis was drilled by Savage Bros. and |!aGoTrical, or the caddc, Lake Oil & ERipp Line Co, close 10 oil f1tY. Inns n