Jefferson County AlArchives News.....OIL IN ALABAMA November 2 1893
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The Constitution: Atlanta, GA
The Constitution: Atlanta, GA
Thursday Morning Paper, p 2
November 2, 1893


OIL IN ALABAMA
A Pennsylvania Says That it is Surely There, but Deep Down
Boring Not Gone Deep Enough
Mr. Barclay, the Recently Appointed Consul, is No Stranger in the Country to 
Which He Goes.
	Birmingham, Ala., November 1 – (Special) – Mr. D. McNamara, of 
Franklin, Pa., who is a practical oil man, and who owns an interest in the 
Galena oil works, of Franklin, has spent some time recently in this section of 
Alabama.  He says he can see no reason why oil and gas do not abound in the 
mineral regions of Alabama, and believes the reason that they have not been 
found is that they have not been properly prospected for.  He says gas and oil 
are found in the limestone formations in the coal regions of Pennsylvania, and 
believes that the proper effort will find the in Alabama.
	Mr. McNamara states that the prospector must go 1,500 or 2,000 feet 
and that if the Alabama folks would go that deep, instead of 400 or 500 feet 
as heretofore, something big would probably be found.  He says it would cost 
between $5,000 and $10,000 to make a respectable test, probably more, but that 
the reward would, in his opinion, be well worth the work and money spent.  
Several times oil and gas have been bored for in Alabama, and each time good 
indications have been found, but the money ran out before the hole was deep 
enough.  Mr. McNamara thinks there is more money in boring for gas and oil in 
Alabama then there is in making steel out of Alabama ore.


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