The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-26
CITES ALABAMA AS
 SURE OIL FIELD
Dr. ]. M. Gregory Gives h. tereSting Data on
 Origin of Deposits

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Petroleum is a product derived from animal and vegetable fats. All the vegetable and animal fats are used on the land until they serve the pur- pose they were intended to serve, but sooner or later the filth and etc, finds its way to the little fishes Of the branches. The filth of the large cities, in fact. all the refuse of the earth is washed down into the little streams and is consumed by the little fish, and in time the smaller fish are eaten by the larger fish, and in time they are eaten by the porpoise, sharks. whales. etc.. and in time the whales, etc. are compassed about by the larger parasites, generally cali el octopuses After surrounding whale with their, numerous feelers. tfe octopus will retire to the bottom of the great waters, sometimes tax iny as long as 12 months to finally coisume, by absorption, their vic- tin; but everything has an end, and so do these great parasites. At their eni and when their life is no more. anl at a depth of about four thou said feet they become conservation of sbout ninety per cent fat. and 1t does not take long for them to become pus or oil.
 | is a fact that at a depth of one thdsand feet, or more. in salt water, noting rises to the surface, the habi- taton of these mighty parasites be- ins the bottom of the ocean, natural ly this rendered oil could not rise to thf surface, owing to the salt of the waer.
 Owing to the fact that the moon b3 some mysterious force, controls tie motion of the waters at the bot tm of the deep the never ceasing. eserlasting movement finally puts his oil into motion. and being so ushed it finds it's way out into the devices of the rocks, and along with i salt water. If this theory of the <tanufacture of oil is not absolutely iorrect, then who is the man who can sxplain the presence of salt water in any and all oil fields.
 1 This oil is pushed out through the crevices of the rock until it is far enough away from the force of the mighty ocean, and then it is carried to the different parts of the earth by capillary attraction. Owing to the fact that oil travels by capillary at traction it would be impossible to hold it in one location except by an especially prepared recepticle or cap rock, as it were. In the formation of our earths surface we find bodies of sand that are 1OfHleu between lWO large bodies of rock; this sand forms a conductor, or pipe line, and this oil will travel as far a. five thousand miles from the seat of it's manufac-I ture. Therefore it becomes necessary to study the building of the earth's surface to find these channels
 In order to make this situation plain to you it will be necessary to take up the shifting of the earth's sur face, or parts thereof.
 Retaining Equilibrium
 The movement of the tide of the great waters is necessary for the pur- pose of retaining the equilibrium of the globe, or the earth.
 The shifting of habitation and the sands of the mighty ocean sometimes accumulates more weight on one side of the globe than the tidei able to take care of, thus: nature has provid- ed that the center of the earth is a molten mass, and when weight gath CTS in one particular place to where the tide cannot take care of the equil- forum, the excess ght-settled down into the molten mass, and by these settings other parts of the earth's surface is pushed out.
 Europe, Asia and Africa. and prac- tieally all of the old world Is retain ing their position fairly well. They do not show any signs Of emersion or submersion, that is not as much as the new world.
 From a careful study Of the western hemisphere we have reason to believe