Field Notebook: Texas, Oklahoma 1919
Page 41
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"There are beds seen out to be run & put through. there are beds in the Canyon or shale unit from zone of li, and the zone of sandstone. There are also other that are long agular li. At 12 o'clock we are at Dhaun a 4 hour lunch lunch. It is a very small place. Three miles west of Dhaun in the river canyon we are again in the Palo Pinto limestone. Here the exposures are extensive and there are far more fossils to be had. Fusulina is common here, but a fairly large lot of fossils. This is a fine place to get a large lot of fossils. Then we went on to Raines -- the booming oil town. Last October we saw how this place was hardly a town and on up and now it is all excitement about oil. Over 200 wells are down, and of 150 an day. The oil area is at 8 miles by 3-1/2 miles. The largest wells yield 4000 barrels per day. The first oil well was put down as a wild cat by the Texas Pacific Railway, and now the field is controlled by the Standard Oil Co. The oil offers to be in the Bend li., and this structure is seeming a series of faults. This is Alex MacCray's ideas. At Raines is the third li. in the Canyon, but it has but few fossils. This is the Raines li. Then drove on to 5-mile west of Eastland and the city of Cisco. Here about 70 feet above the base of the Ciscos