Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-09-21
INDIANS WERE THE FIRST TO DISCOVER
 TEXAS OIL FIELDS
Story of Painted Rock DiscOv-
 cry is Told by Pioneers

Brady, Sept. 2O.-Since Texas first loomed up on the horizon as one of the greatest of the worlds oil fields, and even before, the geologist has played an important role in petro- leum operations, and his opinion and advice has been eagerly sought and followed by the hunters for Liquid gold"
 But this forerunner of the big oil strikes in Texas is not the earliest in the game. To the Indian must be given credit for being the first geolo- yyist to locate oil in Texas. Here is the story as it was told by Jeff Meers of this city, by young man named Patterson, while the two were trav- eight years ago.
 Patterson told of his father, Jack Patterson, being buffalo hunter in the early days, and of the friendly Indians with whom he was associated These Indians, back in the fifties took the buffalo hunter to point in Con- cho county, near where Paint Rock is now located, and showed him where the rock would burn. They told him that the rocks had been known to burn for months at time.
 Vividly Painted by Indians.
 While in this vicinity, Patterson saw the painted rocks from which the town of Paint Rock takes it's name. They are in a bluff located about ten miles east of Paint Rock and about a mile and half below where the Con- cho river empties into the Colorado rive. The bluffs are about fifty feet high and about a quarter of a mile long. On them, painted in blood red, are the astonishing and grotesque de- signs left by Indians, Despite the century or centuries that have clap sed since being placed there the signs are as bright and noticeable as ever.
 It is thought that numbersof the Indian band had ventured into civil ization and upon his return had at tempted to depict the fellow tribes men the wonderful sights he had seen.
 An outline resembling a church, surmounted by cross, is recogniza ble. A drawing that looks lige a ship is also to be seen. Two immense hands are clearly discernible. An other design would appear to repre- sent boy riding buffalo. The sun and moon are depicted. All these are so queer and so grotesque as to be nothing short of monstrosities.
 Indians Pioneer GeOlogists.
 But to get back to the Indians as pioneer geologists. Geologists of the present day, in their reports, have called attention to this same burning shale, to the fact that it is highly bituminous, and further that it burns without loss of volume. Their re- ports on the formations in this parti- cular section have been so favorable that number of the largest oil com panies are drilling in this immediate section.
 Among others are the Gulf Produc- ton, Sinclair Oil and Gas company, Prairie Oil and Gas company, Magno- lia, Tidal Oil company, Shultz Oil company and Texas Meers Oil com pany.
 Of these wells, the Gulf Production company's Russell No. 1 at 400 feet had color of oil. At 1,805 feet it had a showing of oil and half a mil lion cubic feet of gas. At 2,290 feet it was 100-barrel well, with big flow of gas. At 2,590 feet it had half million cubic feet; at 2,87O feet a million cubic feet; at 3,200 feet G. 000,OOO cubic feet of gas. to-,
 The Shultz Oil company at 400 feet had an estimated 50 to 100-bar