The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-03-25
Will EXPLORE
FOR OIL HERE
Two Wells To Be Spudded Early
Part of Next Month; Fund is
Nearly Assembled

With some $4,000. of the required
$4,000. fund having now been sub
scribed by interested business and
professional men in Paris and Henry
this county, indications bid fair for
ascertaining the oil possibilities in
County, for the purpose of definitely
roundingthe matter into concrete.
form within the next week
For years and years evidence of
oil in Henry County have been loca-
ted, way before the mad exploitations
in the Texas and Oklahoma fields.
The fact that oil has been found in
Bowling Green and other nearby
places has now aroused the people to
an interest that it seems will now de-
velop into something more than talk.
Concerning the matter, the Kentucky
Oil Leader, in it's last issue, contains
the following dispatch from Paris:
Henry county il about to move
from the semi obscurity of ordinary
agricultural pursuits into the fiaring
spot light of oil development
New York capitalists, headed by
Col M A Westlow, of Bowling Green.
have recently acquired $4,000 acres
of leases in one block. in this section
and will drill two deep tests for oil
during the spring.
The first of these wells will be
spudded in early in April and the
second will follow shortly thereafter.
Each will be drilled to $500 feet If
necessary. although the operators be-
lieve the hoped for oil bearing hori-
x..tIr hA oh
depths Equipment of the wells will
be such as to insure thorough test
of all possible oil sands down through
the Cretaceous formation, into and
through the Devonian and Silurian
shales and lines.
Biologists Survey Area
During the past two months Col
Weslow and his associates have had
their geologists making examinations
of this area, not only for the purpose
of doing detailed structural work, but
also with the idea of studying its
probable correlation with the new
producing Oil fields of Arkansas. The
result of these Investigations has been
such that not only have big struc-
lures been identified and detailed,
but many conditions identical with
those accompanying the big produ-
tion in Arkansas have been discov-
cred and outlined
The location for the No. ! well
here In Henry county has an eleva'
ton of exactly four feet higher than
that of the now famous Busy Bee
well in the Ell Dorado field of Ar
kansas. Further than this drilling
will start In practically the same
clays as that encountered by the drill
in the Ell Dorado discovery we'll
study of the stratigraphy of the Hen
ry county area has shown an almost
Identical succession of the same for
nations and these wells will be drill
ed with the idea of getting into the
same oil bearing horizons that pro-
duced the immense discovery gusher
in the now famous Arkansas field.
No Child's Play
Drilling these wells will be no
childs play They will be started
with an Armstrong rig and will be
finished with standard outfit If the
heavier tools are found necessary.
on top of this they will be cased
from top to bottom and provision has
been made for the expenditure of
$4,000 for the completion of each
well. This money has been posted
in the bank and arrangements for
the beginning of operations are now
being made
Henry county lies just south of
the Kentucky line to the west of the
valley of the Tennessee river and
thus is in the northeast section of
what is ordinarily known as West
Tennessee. Sedimentary clays and
sands of this entire area of Eocene
and Cretaceous age, and are from
1000 to 2,500O feet in vertical thick
ness, thus overlying the numerous
systems of Paleozoic age to about
those depths
Using the Tennessee river general
ly as an. eastern boundary and Bates
vile, Arkansas, as the western line
the area between may be considered
as huge trough or basin, which was