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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.