In talking this afternoon with Mr. R. B. Whitehead of the Atlantic Refining Co it is clear that he thinks the Cretaceous and Cretaceous seas of Texas are those of a progressing retreat from Texas and Locomotives of the west. The Bradford as a sandstone does not go south of Mexico, and is thicker to the northeast and towards the Sabine Uplift. Above the Bradford line in mud and beds to the north of Kaufman Co. and are of continental origin. The salt deposits of West Texas lie in about the center of the Cretaceous progression. The curious thing I learned this after- oon of Whitehead was that a very dry hole in the Haed Bend limestone has been made a good oil well by drilling out as much as 450 gallons on fact and bend gives me about of nitroglycerine. Now they is that the bituminous material in the Bend limestone ``` ```json {