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North of Crepica about 12 miles at Carrer
I saw an oil well coming in. The oil has
a 45 Baume. There is a dome here
and about 12 wells are drilling; but an 3
producing. All expect a little field here,
and hence all are cautious, but the Hum-
phrys people are leading.
Still farther the Humphrys have other
structures in Kaufman county and they throw
of others. Evidently there are vast quantities of
oil to come in in this region, and the fields
eventually
may go into many hundreds of million
barrels.
The Midway as I saw it is a white
highly fossiliferous limestone with almost no sand
in it. In places the limestone is said to be
ventricular, and in other bears more or less
of fine sand. In my samples I thought I saw
grains of fluvorinite.