Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-11-17
TIY FIND GREAT
OIL FIELD HERE
r,unty Said BY Biologists To
Ga"r MED With Many Earmarks
%s,in,inr TO A Mighty Oil Pool
ro'" E,neath Her Soil

q .n.,.. l., anything to oil geology,
i .t,,, j." must be, for it is through
80 "'y ;,,.,, that most oil fields have
nA in.a,rd Bryan countys fertile
ben ~, a covering for mighty
gu odd which many believe when
Of ,.ill prove to be among the
opp" the world has even seen OPP
geIa" ,,r and which will shower un-
.ng .M wealth upon this section of the
eLu o That many have confidence
snIs sIi. hrlicf is attested by the num-
U 49,. '"' ris. set up for testing purpos-
lVI, i' aver the county, and the further
e., ina, leases have been taken upon
laS, laaSr,is.. thousands of acres of land
eOu,, 8 ayrry section of the county.
,monr the most optimistic of the
1ncrtrr>. is f. Boileau, heading
I.'r X. 'ornera,ions of the Lucky 100 COM
W. INV " drilling at a depth of AIS feet
P.or colbert, and representing a syn
.a E"o,e p, men determined to find oil
s'I = navirr quantities or drill so deep
y Soy yU run out of hole in the attempt.
W. Rnilcau himself is an oil geo.
igs, o; and he avails himself of the
.sormation furnished in the reports
nd md findings of many other geolo-
Gsts.
Mr. Boileau points to four "ear-
.srks" which indicate the presence
Il A great quantity of oil under Bry-
,n county. Summarizing these ear
81, oro nc follows:
First. the, 96 degree latitude pas
,s few miles east of Yarnaby,
,Sout twenty miles east of this loca-
ton % and it has been said that if you
,nt % to look for oil look for forma-
ton close to the 96 degree latitude
and drive your stake. This is proven
" the Illinois shallow wells, the oil
sslds of Kansas and the Usage fields
md in Texas the last few years has
,rOyen this statement by the coming
4 4 the Mexia Field, Workman, Cor
drama. Kosse and way down in the
Gulf coast by the Hill Top Dome.
Second earmark is the Red River
Insin. which is also known as an oil
Basin or Reservoir. You can hardly
4 bnd fold and drill it in the Red
river Basin without oil. The average
/ reported to be better than 81 per
unt. This is clearly demonstrated
from the Louisiana fields to the Burk-
burnett.
Third earmark is the Preston Anti
dine which is proven by so many
oil fields. Among them is the Ma
dill field which has the distinction
Of producing the highest grade of oil
Of the Mid-continent Fields and this
field is only about seventeen miles
from our present location, The
United States Geological survey in
commenting upon the shallow Madill
oil field, wells which produced as high
as 1000 barrels flush of AZ gravity
oil through a three inch hole, states
that the presence of gas in many
places in the Trinity sand indicated
that oil may be found farther south
in this horizon where the sands will
be deeper.
Fourth carmark is the fact that the
BALCONIES Fault which gave birth to
so many gushers join the Preston
anticline in Bryan County, at the foot
Of the Choctaw Fault which acts up
on it as a dam and thereby warrants
the greatest possibilities for one OF
the largest oil fields of America.
If there is no oil in the southern
part of Bryan County where those
four proven belts of oil undoubtedly
meet well then we might as well
burn our books of geology and look
TO another science to explain the pres
tnce of oil and gas in proven forma-
ton.