The Little River news., 1921-07-27
REPORTS OIL SITUATION
 IN COUNTY GOOD
After Visiting Foreman GeOlOgist Thinks Town is Soon to Be
 Oil Metropolis.

report on the oil situation in Little River county made by Clarye F. San ford, noted engineer and geologist of St. Louis, to he Sullivan Oil Syndicate, Inc, last week:
 Tt gives me great pleasure to give you a report on my investigations of operations by your company and other organizations that are zealously en- deavoring to reach the oil which am convinced will be found in your immediate vicinity and at other points throughout Little River county. Let me assure you that I consider it quite a privilege to have had the opportu'l- ty cf going over your entire county as well as over surrounding territory. and am sure that the results of my investigations are proving of intense interest to stockholders of the Suili, van Oil Syndicate, Inc, in this city. (St. Louisa
 ''As you know my investigations covered a period of more than ten days and that on June 26th, before wells that are going down in north east Texas, directly south of your holdings, across Red River I had a lengthy discussion with the owners of the Hooks well and I am positive that you will have an encouraging report from them in the very near future, At the time of my visit there they had about finished setting their casing and were making final prepar ations incident to bringing in their well. The Caldwell well, four miles to the south of Richmond and just south of Red River, also appears to be very promising, they have drilled into a 22OO foot sand at the time I was there. And every indication points to production there at very early date While the two Nash wells are temporarily idle, I received advice that proves without doubt that these wells had a showing of oil and that they will be producers when tho work is resumed. Thh DeKalb we'll is under way but considerable drilling is yet to be done.
 My survey of Little River county covered the territory west from Ash down to the Oklahoma line, and from Winthrop to Red River, and I am confident that your country possesses wonderful possibilities. While l am not geologist in the strict sense of the term, yet have comprehen- sive knowledge of the subject and have made a careful study of the topography of your territory. There is no question but what your country lies in the physiographic province we know as the Gulf Coastal Plain. Tn the Cretaceous period salt water covered all of Eastern Texas, all of Louisiana and Mississippi and extend ed as far north as the Ohio River. The western shore of this body of water was at about Corning, Arkan- 'sas, thence southwest to Philadelphia and due west into the state of Oklaho- ma. While development in Arkansas lis of comparatively recent date, yet we know that in this area has been deyeloped the wonder fields of the world at Fl Dorado. l have had the privilege of going over the El Dorado fields and I wish to assure you of my belief that your country has even greater possibilities than El Dorado for the reason that it is possible to work out a more definite structure. You have also decided advantage in that your contours are far more regular, making possible more ad- vantageous handling of output after production is obtained.
 'The rocks in your country are ol sedimentary origin and of Cretaceous period. There is no question about these deposits as samples of fossils picked up around Foreman prove without doubt deposits of the Cretace- ous or chalk period Petroleum ana gas are found in Cretaceous rocks in Louisiana and Texas, and am con fident that the same formations will produce oil and gas in Arkansas. The accumulation of oil and gas is con- trolled by certain structural features which are open to direct inspection in portions of Little River county.
 "I am convinced that there are en- ough features directly visible to cor relate a geographical sequence of the various oil and gas sands in north ern Louisiana and their respective stratigraphical positions when traced ot the north and into Little River county. The Caddo Oil Fields show gas and oil in the following horizons; "In the Nacotoch sands.
 "In the Anona Chalk (Oil at 1875 feet)
 Eagle Ford Clays Gas at 1900 feet.)