The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 10, 1949, Page 7

THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1949 Reserve Is A Bugaboo, Lovering Says Positively PART 2 (NOTE: The opening article on the discovery of © in Florida carried the story from the time the first well came in on the Sunnilanc’ field in the Everglades e 60 miles west of Miami in 1943, to late 1947 when Humble Oil Co. brought in its fourth producing well. Meanwhile, dry holes had been drilled at Big iPne Key ey pens ee gah es made on the mainland lomestead.) ‘deep-water ‘search ‘for oil is a| gravity due to post-war phenomenon. -Equip- ment includes disused navy sub- chasers, army sea-and-air rescue’ long it takes. shock boats, shrimp trawlers and a 77-} surface explosion bounce foot yacht. from sul The “doodlebug” has some! X-Rays. brothers and sisters now—radat, gravity meters and sei raphs. hee: which fixes a boat's” i martad with a oS no ae By sty ing the dia e data the a productive : met in miniature the various of war) has been a valuable ad- | Gulf Oil at its Harmarvill id layer from “which dition to the devices. adapted by The i the oil prspectors,. The gravity solve the riddle ‘of: how meter tells of shifts in the pull of , through sand and ; Tocks (THE END) a picture of flow! The Great Pyramid of Egypt | getically. in: aphasia maybe! covers 13% acres. . judicing the jury against me.” Atter the early summer of 1948 the new method of prospect- ime fer off came into use—a low-flying aeroplane towing a gad- ‘Qe vented just before the second World War, the magneto- meter or “doodiebug.” Muck-travelling jeeps were also used by prospectors in the ‘Glades. The “deediebug” records on a tape the variations in. the magnetic qualities of the earth, whether above land or below shallow water. Invented Gulf Oil engi- neers and pertected by the and ° yg cask @tinqg laboratories, the tureed to war use in detecting the presence ‘of megnetiom in submarines. Later it came into it. own The instrament does not actually find oil but i prowides geological tacts which enable the qeophysiciet to determine if the basement tock and other formations are of a type in- @ieating the possibility that oil is present. Drilling follows. O8 t& found im pockets above arches PRANK W. formed by basement rock during upheavals LOVERING of the globe cons past. An oil rig will pass the clays, lime- weme end chele-—etdimentary rock—and if oi] is present it Will be found im the pocket or pool resting on sandstone. rl meter is piloted ection, the ® where prospect--flomestead wells, but this proves ed the data. insufficient now and then ‘when 4 © applied te charts whieh | the requirements of Navy and vor sort of on anawer to. eity rival each other and requests tae Na have to be made to slow down use of the service. In many parts | O14 Exploration of Key West. The original storage | Hed area could) Be evstem for rain water still docs wt mapped ina day jnvajuable service. | otteds of explora Samples of test borings were | Deine the werk by air adds made as the Jackson Square hole geet process and Went down, but neither fresh ~oles the Rvergiadés, moun. Water nor reef rock was found. | npenctrable Jungle can The bare facts of the drilling ie te gevent Gulp dory ot “° recorded in the te Judge , 4 Browne's book, , West, the Old and the New,” but all the published in a Bul- | siz Museum of Com- ative Zoology, Harvard Uni-) y. in 1896. The material written by Edmund Otis} details were was Gat of parts of the! arly ry ’ the K Mave corth's history, _ but < later was | ' F eurthg akes, but submerged. North of this area is . PPR! the Piedmont Plateau, and ap-| t vida State parently whi the Florida which Ptateau was beneath the sca, all pier the the gravel, clay and sand that ap- | ’ . a may = me pear in the rocks of the south: } ne W Feeorded cast part of the prehistoric coast- ; . Florida tine, were washed déwn into that ube wed lower coct ion from the Piedmont emt Mek. The pPisteau | plane divide the “Rovlders of coral rock have mad those Of heen found 12 fect below the sur- | face at Fort Taylor. 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