The Mena weekly star., 1917-01-11
GEOLOGY IS NOW
 OIL MANS GUIDE
Five Years Ago Locating Wells by Science Ridieuled, but Now No In- xeSt0r Can Re Interested With
 ont Geological Survey

Tulsa, Ok, Jan. : When James Hutton laid the foundation of the science of geology along about i7S5, he dreamed only of research and an understanding of the things beneath the earth's crust. Were Mir. Hutton alive today, it probably would sur prise him beyond expression to know that the outgrowth of his the ories is the card on which millions of dollars are staked in the oil in dustry every month.
 Geology is one of the newest of the sciences. and it's application to the oil industry is newer still. Five years ago the old timer treated the geologist with contempt. Then were coined the nieknames rock biler, "roek-hound, and few other even less complimentary, by which geologists are known among operators and drillers of the old school
 
 But Geology is not to be dauntcd by the scorn of Il few unbelieyers, for geology has arrived in the oil industry, and commands its price. when the man with a lease to sell talks Co the man who buys leases, he submits a geologists report at the ontsef Of negotiations. If the lease fms been considered from the geol- sorist's viewpoint. the man having it for sale might as we'll hawk a gold brick around the streets nobody wants his offering and nobody would buy it except at the lowest price.
 The development of geology in the oil industry dates back to the fields Of West Virginia. A pioneer in the oil geological field was Dr. |. C. White, whose report on West Vir- ginia fields formed to great ex- tent the early working basis of oil gedlNgists in other fields. In later years other geologists took up the work in Illinois and Pennsylvania, SC that by the time Oklahoma and Kansas become the principal petrol- aum producing sections the stage was set for the geologist II took him some little time to build prop erly his fences, but now he is reap ing his reward in the esteem n which his opinions are held.
 i Million Hoiiaf. Opinion.
 And as esteem goes, 1t is some es- teem. One of the big companics operating out of Tulsa thought sf nnuril Of the report Of a widely known Oklahoma geoiogist that i paid 1 million dollars for a lease Il, recommended on which q well hat never been drilled There was on' small producer within a short dis tance, hut it's location was such tha it did not affect the speculative na. lure of the investment to grea extent
 This same seologist who gave th, aniIlion-dollar opinion on a "strac. tareH has scored several times il the last few years. He is ap ex-d,. rector of the Oklahoma geologica survey and it was while engaged in this work that he became con vineed the wider opeEing lay i'll tn, oil industry In the three year! since he resigned his position ht ilas located several oil producing anticlines. and is said to have pro- Iited handsomely by his knowledge.
 The new Garfield County flelC nes7 Enid is on "structuren ap- Eroved by geologist Garile( county men originally blocked uI the aereage and offered it for sale tC "a Tulsa company. The Tulsa com pang sent its geologist and when h, reported favorably the deal was closed in little or no time.
 The United States Geological Sur yey has inaugurated a system of re- porss that is valuable to the geolo- glsi, and there is scarcely a state 1T the uni0n that has not established us own geological survey. From tn, maps furnished hy the government and the states geelogists are able tt
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