Field Notebook: Oklahoma, Texas 1922
Page 29
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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.