The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-04-02
Geologists Deny
Motto Oil Where
You Can Find 1t
" UNsCON H. TIUVONs.


ihr SURVEY declared Chat the
NIlu'I'.'. usually elites stephens
"hd lt-.|1Nd counties u TrN1-. iu
. prove N.. IN'NIy fNIt 'UIl Ig whore
N"l I'NI I. 'Uu.cd.ur iuli many
WtI'. NNN." IH1'IHu was chosen Ut
I1h''n lu iNHHo counties either
WIN nI without e.nIosIyU gdvly,
nave ".u.. ".H nHl many whose
.llInUs We're carefully selected boy
'NIhu.. ..''.ir H"1InElsts Vure ln dry
IHil Jh'y siHInj whom Ihn dull.uw
N'''I was Nhi iH. nevertheless. ElN-
.''NO.'u' export. allu.
''nluslt"l dividends small
'troiutN u. the common .lrdgn
. Variety planted Iu tho region hc-
lW''n N'us'r and ErrckourIlro.
. I"Nh7, has ng' produced ruu,Hh.
,uh ,'ur "I u''II'nd' bn the other
N''d. 'N.'' NIn h. n' doubt tnni
geology properly applied uy able
men can HlrU.y reduce tHr pros.
poet ui "upuuUuuH lNs-,a. such ug
nav" rIpu'ui uH Killed many OF tho
.t"lnIauI'. fN1I NuNo CsauNvu io dc.
N'I'N u.l lu iUI. II,h fold
~ ulIh" Tine llUIldtuu. Gushing
'lih'r liuInHuk. and other famous
"I pools lu oklahoma, ln tho north.
moe. OF tur pools ir th,ao counties
. 100 I"Nls Nrr mot indicated hy vrll-
. DO iHo nrdG uf rocks ut the surface
/ above them. To ho sure. the beds
] luNl contain tho OIL which lies deep
/ h'h'ilh GO" surface, are sharply
/ nI,h'd into uutIulluug ard domca.
. ana tho u,f following the general
. lulo. tends 90 gather ut tho crcals OF
I jh"'" deeply buried arches. hut nf
/ toWo places tho surface beds uN-
/ TEND smoothly over the OH buried
. q If % q D..
It,t hruH extend smoothly over the
ull houIu11H, not suggesting by even
. inc slightest bump or buckle the
/ fortunes th1t lir ttr beneath them.
] More commonly the surface rocks
/ are gently folded, but tho folds are
] not of the same shape az the uuil-
/ Cllucs that hold tho oil nor do
/ ihcy lic vertically above them
Tito Gculugists TnAL.
THE task uf tho EcOloglai, and
through him that OFF the oil operator.
. iS "a discover the relation between
the folds at tho .uIaro and those
I that his drill must strike at a depth
/ ut 5000 feet or more iu his search
/ for oii lie mpy find that the anti
cllncs in the oil sands generally lilo
north OF gentle aaUclucs ON the
aurfacc. or hc may find that thpy
] lie east. south, or wovt ~ thom. lie
.
/ ln tho oil sands lie below places
where the surface beds arc fiat. or
he may find that stccply dlpplng
beds ON tho surface are So com-
monty associated with antIclluos i'm
] th" oh sands that 10 is advisable 10
drlu near them. porhaps hc may
find that tho surface aniicIlncs
which trend in "A certain direction
| are reliable guides and that others
Ga.
/ 20 disaster. Any one OF ~ great mum.
I her OF rol1tioua may ho found. but
/ the essential thing TO keen i'm mind
/ is that there tg "a relation. that IL
can be found, and that n II is found
| aud generally npllcd Il will save
/ the oil men millions of dollars"
The Geological Survey declared
that many forlorn investors in
stephens and Euulaud counties Will
testify to the dcsirabillty and mag
nliude of the possible saving through
. proper geology.
although those fields have been
remarkable for that rapid develop
mcnt ana for their many produce
| 1.-Two wells" tho statement con-
| timed, they are no less rcmarlS-
| able for the high cost Of drilling ana
operating FOR the short lives OF
large number OF tho wells, and for
.
companies have been Consplcuously
successful, but many more have
clthor barely paid expenses or have
iailod miscrnbly-Hfiilod even 10 re-
cover their Original Investment,
some OF these failures are due to
poor methods ot operation ana 10
the hull-like, shut-cycd policy OF
many OF tho large companies that
shuuldcrod into the field subllmely
Indifferent 10 tho repeated slckcn-
ing jolis dealt them by oNtortionate
ledsoholdora by the supply COM
pnnies, and by outrnBcously high
operating expenses, Many Compan-
les that held productive leases and
put hundreds ~ thousands Of bar
r'lS OF oil ON the market failed to
earn enough To balance their orig
mai outlay A large percentage OF
the absolute failures, however, par
iieularly thua" Ot small companies
are due 90 tho failure 20 strike oil
lu the single well they each had
FUNDS 10 drili
Kennedy Tor Waste.
The remedy Tor this waste ana
idlIure is 10 study painstakingly tho
geologic structure In the oll-bear-
ing beds hs revealed by well rec
gIdH, 10 determine the shape, OUT
Inc, ana position or the antlClines,
ana then TO determine the relation
IN a