Show SURPRISES IN OIL INDUSTRY since tims tim of drakes discovery every new field has added something now new since the oil industry began it has been a succession of surprises drakes discovery well was a surprise to most persons since that time every now new field has added something new for several years every individual well was a revelation peculiarities were observed not round found in their pre predecessors d coca then the new things were found in localities it Is 13 the same way yet oil to abide by the rules and freak wells persist the driller of 0 long experience is constantly expecting something different from anything he has ever encountered it Is this novelty that makes the oil business so fascinating but the same thing increases the hazard the latest reported oddity is the discovery of 0 heavy oil in the caddo deep sand the opening of 0 a high grade oil field in that locality was a surprise to all and to many a disagreeable one gut but when that grade of crude had come to be the expected thing from the deep sand there a well Is drilled in alongside alone ilde the field that produces oil of 0 30 degrees gravity from the same sand that yields the oil of 0 high gravity A lew few days earlier a well found the light oil in a shallow sand and then caved in and was spoiled so it will probably go to the end of the chapter science can guess at the probabilities below the surface but until a means Is devised to see into the earth for several thousand feet as the xray X ray enables us to see through a sheet of steel the oil busl business 13 es a will be uncertain and full of surprises it Is hazardous irk in all its branches and will con continue tintie to b be e oil city Der derrick riek I 1 |