The Holbrook news., 1922-12-08

occasion we are pleased to meet with you and pleased to be here, and pleased to welcome these people who Oil field.
 The possibilities of oil were seen here years and years ago at the time of Major Powes expedition through this country Every geoogist and oil man from that time on that has made examination of this field has seen evil dences of o There has been, you know during the past few years effort made to develop this oil How ever, those efforts have been like all efforts that are made in wildcat eldthe people that have been doing this have been handicapped They have probably not al ways had proper equipment They have not had the pro these people. Dr. Taylor came here year or two ago. He the possibilities and he was optimistic enough that he interested his friends and today we have here this fine equipment and rig ready to go.
 We welcome these people here. Senator Taylor will now tell something about what the TaylorFuler in- terests propose to do here"
 Senator Taylor: 'In behalf of the Taylor Fuller n terests wish to welcome all of you friends today Tam mighty glad that you are here. What we are anxious for for the development of this ed is the goodwill of the people of this community and feel that have had 1t Tn most generous measure.
 This is Thanksgiving Day. and it seems appropriate to that should celebrate Thanksgiving Day by the spuddng in of the Taylor Fuller Well Mo- l. We all exceedingly happy around the Taylor offices, and hope you The Doctor has been working like Trojan for more than year to get this we'll started and you can believe that exceedingly happy to be able to say that we going to spud in today.
 think, perhaps. in order for you people to under stand this sudden burst speed the of the Doctor lit will be necessary for to make some reference to 
 that he is very proud of and that s he always enjoys being just little ahead of time When he was in New York; he wired the office that he would spud in Decem- Der 15. When he arrived home and had talked little with the office force and got things lined up he said one day, I'd like to spud in December 1st' Last Thursday he came out here and looked around little bt and we were getting along so finely he asked If it would be pos sibe to spud in on Thanksgiving Day And so we are sixteen days ahead of time spuddng in this TayorFuer We'll Mo- l.
 This equipment is arranged for the drilling of a we'll lat least 4000 feet deep Now, that is good deep we'll There however many deeper wells than that There are wells today that over mile deep. If 1t is neces- deep but it is not believed by the geoogists that it will necessary for to go than 5000 $500 feet That makes me think of story. In the early days, the discovery of oil was often made in drilling water wells But the story going to refer to the drilling of salt we'll man down east had been out on Thanksgiv- ing Day visiting with his friends and in that particular neighborhood where he eating his Thanksgiving tur key, they had been bringing in good many salt wells And he much interested in salt well had enough salt He told his neighbors he was going to drill salt we'll So he started drilling, and day lot of green stuff came up lot of 1t spewed out the top of the hole and ran down over the barn yard down the swae and down the creek to the river It all after noon and all night long. and next morning it still running. Some neghbors went down along the creek to burn brush and burned pile the creek and when they started the fire there what they called explosion. and fire started back up the creek down through the swae burning all the tall grass through the barn yard and burned the barn, and then burned down the house And the old man said to his wife,
 
 ing drill down and get salt we would drill down to Hell. l think must have struck He'll
 Now the Doctor is not much interested in strik- ing He'll in this drilling here but he is interested in get ting oil He has no other idea in his mind Hes deter mined to get oil if there is any oil under Higgins Dome and that is the why he has equipped this we'll to- drill down four thousand feet We think have every reason to believe going to get oil.
 The Doctor has spent over $10OOO geologizing this oil field That lot of money. It has all been spent on these rocks around Hobrook. Its amazing the Der of geologsts who have given less favorable report on this Holbrook ied Why think there must be thirty or more rstclass geoogsts who have believed there was oil here somewhere.
 We brought in Dorsey Hager. We regard him as one of the best geoogsts in the country have heard money is they will make any kind of report if you will pay them for it. want to tell you that I do not believe word of it. First because of the splendid shed reputation in the geological world like Mr. Hager and second, for the very reason that when geo.