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Book Title: History Of Clarke County

OIL WELL

    The Mutual Oil Company, a corporation, is drilling a well in Section 35,
Township 8 North, Range 1 West, a mile and a half west of Salitpa postoffice,
with the hope of finding oil. Geologists pronounce this the most flattering
undeveloped oil field anywhere east of the Mississippi River. There are two
separate and distinct anteclines in the county, one north of Jackson and one
south of Jackson. The surface indications are said by geologists to be very
flattering indeed. Many oil companies are holding leases on lands in this
county. Several thousand acres of land have been leased by various oil companies
since 1916. Had it not been for the World War, the field would doubtless have
been thoroughly tested before now. The war, high prices of material and the
discovery of much oil in Texas, all worked to block work in Clarke County.
Geology is not an exact science; geologists can locate fields where oil has
been, but they cannot determine its present location. For instance, they
discover that in Clarke County, some time in the centuries gone by, there was an
upheaval, ripping the county open from Section 21 (where it goes into the
Tombigbee River), Township 5 North, Range 2 East, to the same river in Township
8 North, Range 1 West. This upheaval brought to the surface all formations of
the earth below for a great depth, and from these formations geologists draw
their conclusions.


Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CLARKE COUNTY 
BY JOHN SIMPSON GRAHAM

Press of
BIRMINGHAM PRINTING COMPANY
Birmingham, Ala.
1923


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