The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-26
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iovesting their hard-earned dollars IN
IKE propositions rs It used to be to
make them realize that untold wealth
hy al around them. These days when
- Wpools OF oil are coming to light IN
n1oces heretofore unsupported, and mi
0oos ore being made over night, il IS
6ord TO make the average individual
nhdevstand why ID is that oil may not
" found wherever the drill goes down.
Ten years ago had hard work to
make people believe that there was oil
onywhere in Oklahoma now ! have
uDore trouble to try to persuade them
lat Il will not occur everywhere.
u Ouly Drills Can Find the OIL
Nov, let It be understood in the be
Inning, that nobody living knows In
\ 6lvanee OF drilling what may or may
NJ Be found under the ground at any
\ AlAsijcular place The only implement,
4 11Dofument or device, invented by man
, ~ will find oil in the earth is the
1Ffll. Notwithstanding this fact, which
~ been proven over and over again
( tDees without number. there are still
Gnooe eredulous individuals who believe
q ~ mineral rod. the divining rod, the
Soe1lod stick, the doodlebug and va
Sloas other devices and contrivances
6os finding oil, mineral and water be-
I, neath the surface. have long since
\ SeoSned that it does no good to try to
s convince these people Suffice II to
say, that " an instrument really exist
a that would locate oil in advance OF
4 drilling, the owner could dispose OF il
u anyone OF hundred big oil com
panies for as many millions as he
wished to ask.
In the words of the farmer at the
/. esFcuA "there 'aint no such beast"
0eelogists Point the Way.
DIT while II Is true that the geologis
4 eqsnot know with certainty what Il
4 Gb1ee the ground, still by . ca,rdu
Slndy Of surface conditions he Il Cnite,
~ 10 aid the oil man in drilling 4
- most probable place. Dorsey Hage
= pelah out in recent article in III
n Transactions of the American Institut
! q Mining Engineers that thirty out o
H. past forty-five oil pools brought il
\ n Kansas and Oklahoma have bee
leested by biologists in advance @
drilling. They are as follows:
In Kansas: Augusta, Beaumon
DEXTER. Eldorado and Winfield
In Oklahoma Bigheart Billing
oston, Checotah, Eaton. Fox, For
Smith, CARRIER, Hominy. Ingalls,, Loc
\ Morrison, Muskogee, Newkirk, Ponc
a City. Poteau. Quin,on, Robinson, Shan
rock, Stone Bluff, Cushing, Wainrigh
Ripley, Yale, Wheeler
fsw Wells Of Known Structures.
Of the other fifteen pools which we,
located by wildcat drilling in advanc
Of geological investigation practical
all were located on Structure" TIL
IS to say there were surface indici
tions. "an,iclines" and "domes" or "te
. races" that would warrant the geologi
in recommending drilling at this plac
Of the seventy-five principal oil poe
brought in in Oklahoma and Kansa
oil but four are on well defined s,ru
tVre.
Oil is a mineral and like other mi
erals il occurs in the earth under c,
\, tain we'll understood geological con,
tions. Wherever these conditions {
N cur. one is often justified in ,pendi
Y money in drilling Where these con-
~ ttoes do not occur one is never Jus
n fled In spending money.
Fields Outlined IL 1908.
I'm 1Sle first careful work in Oklaho
s looeloe toward the geology OF oil a
snoe 4ss done in 1905 and 1907.
's{ LII llnse there were two geologists
g Q(dnhDgaa. both at the state univers
IA ~ ~ psesent time there are more u
IA ~ oqse4 " msre than JO0 bona (
N Uq6eoisto IN the state to say moth
'ss q ~ Oeoses or even hundreds
w f6AoS aad hangers who hi
Z, lsafoed thas geology is popular, /,
IN 4 % e9py vay TO make mot
W Y, so4 I 3 oull111e pubIic.
"A M - hlsent Of new men
Y eoe edvaace lesailed methods,
f ~ q ~ sabject has gro
r. q vndi toby the geology
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