Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
Page 23
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in a solid condition and the Reverend presume formation starts it to the fluid condition. The roots are erected in 1500 feet, or wells drilled later to this distance are dry holes from after shooting. Either this or the interwadded Hell shale gases can liberate them oil through the fracture. The wells often do it usually yield nothing from 5 to 20 hours after shooting, and the yield depends on about two years. After that the lighter gases rise to the surface and then be oil. Whithead thinks that are many years ahead of oil in new territory along the side of the Mississippi embayment all the way up to Cairo. Also in northern and especially northwestern Florida. Despite the companies slowed for more into the scientific side of oil prospecting and made use of the knowledge now to be gathered.