Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1916, Page 7

TRAFFIC BLOCKED ON THE NEW BRIDGE Roller Slips and Trains Are Not Able to Cross for Several Hours Monday. TWO DOZEN- TRAINS STUCK Traffic over the Union Pacific bridge across the Missouri river at this point was at a complete stand- still for three hours Monday night, simply because a steel roller twelve feet long and a little more than three inches in diamater went wrong. During the suspension of traffic, twenty-four passenger trains in and out of Omaha were tied up in the local passenger yards, or over at the Council Bluffs transfer. For two or three days the people having charge of the construction of the Union Pacific’s new bridge over the river have been jacking up the old structure and putting rollers under it and on top of the piers on which it rests, preparatory to the bridge moving that is to occur next Sun- day noon. These rollers are of solid steel and are placed on steel tracks, the weight of the bridge pressing down upon them. When all are in place next Sunday stationary engines will be put to work and the old bridge will be slid off its present foundation and the new one pulled into posi- tion. Monday afternoon, while the bridge was being jacked up and one of the steel rollers placed under the struc- ture, the roller in some manner got into a crosswise position, throwing the rails of the bridge out of line to such an extent that it was not con- sidered advisable to pass trains over, It was nearly 8 o'clock before the rails were gotten back in line and train service was resumed. Coal Dealers Must Keep Contract On Bids to the City City Purchasing Agent Grotte was drected by the city council to notify coal contractors that if they fail to supply the city with coal according to terms of contracts enteted into last sprin_, the coal will be bought in open market and the defaulting contractors and bondsmen held lia- ble for expense incurred. City Attorney Rinc advised the commissioners that this procedure was proper. The council was ad- vised that one of the coal contractors allowed h’s contract with the city to go by default. Young Woman is Found Dead in East Side Saloon Found dead in the Silk saloon at Tenth and Davenport streets Tues- day morning, May Logan, a young woman, furnishes to Omaha's police another mystery. According to the bartender’s story, she walked into the place at 8:30 o'clock and asked for a drink, complaining that she did not feel well. She was found dead in a chair two hours later. Sfie lived at -918. Capitol avenue. Coroner Crosby has the body and may hold an autopsy. \ Southwest Improvers Will Hear John Lathrop The Southwest Improvement club will meet Wednesday night at 832 South Twenty-fourth street to discuss street cleaning, street lighting, an up- town union depot and the widening of Twenty-fourth street. John E. Lath- rop of New York City, a city plan- ning expert, will talk o systematic sanitation possibilities in Omaha. The public is invited to the meeting. Army is Asking for Bids On Supply of Oats Here The army gdartermaster’s depart- ment is inviting bids for the delivery of 2,800,000 pounds of oats, delivered at El Paso, Tex. The bids when in will be opened and tabulated. Crude Oil Advances Ten Cents a Barrel Crude oil has advanced in price 10 cents a barrel, according to announce- ment made Tuesday by the Nicholas Qil company. Not Quite Down and Out. Many a man-feels that he is down and out when as a matter of fact he still has in him many years of good service that can be brought out by proper treatment. Stomach trouble often makes one despondent. It hits him/where he lives, saps his strength and energy and makes him feel like giving up. Give him. a few doses of Chamberlain’s ‘Tablets to improve his digestion and invigorate his liver and bowels, and in most cases recov- ery i ompt and effectual—Adv Health” Take Natural (B8 Mineral - ~Water saring tine ohd maney o tebne maiery of our treatment. Why don’t you? is_delivered in Omaha in five-gal. jugs. §1.50; 30c refunded when jug is ro- —— | ywThe famous Sulpho-Chlorine Mineral turned. Brown Park Mineral Springs 26th and O 8ts., South Side. Phone South 879 DR. JOHN A. NIEMANN, Osteopathic Physlolan, In Charge. i R SITTINGS Made by Appointment Before December 20th Will Be Ready for Xmas E THE ! - Heyn Studio - i6th and Howard. Douglas 481. Photos, $5.00 to $50.00 Per Dozen - THE Drilling for Oil and Gas at Table Rock Under Direction of the State Dr. George E. Condra Makes BEE: OMAHA, both the favorable and unfavorable Report On Work that is aspects of the situation in our state. Now in Progress. “\' do not know 1»x)s.i(|\'el)" that the \ s sielss | Cherokee shales which yield vast amount of oil and gas in Oklahoma EXPERTS HAVE CHARGE!M\(I Kansas extend to and under much of southeastern Nebraska. This information is lacking because of the (Director Nebraska Conservation and Soil | absence of drillings. The horizon Survey.) in which these shales occur is with- The daily press has run articles un- u}m (l('vubt lv'..\und in Nebraska. Fur- . R 78 : .« | ther than this we are not very posi- der (h|,~‘ln|m. bringing in the names | io except for the evidence secured of Mr. C. J. Hurst, who is one of the |}y drillings near our borders and a largest oil operators of Wyoming;|few miles south in Kansas. Certain Senator Phil Kohl and the writer, | other drillings to the north and north- It seems that in view of the wide | 35! would cause us to befieve that z e the situation is not entirely promis- publicity given to the probable pres-|ing Though the Cherokee shales may By GEORGE E. CONDRA. ence of oil or gas in the vicinity of‘ Table Rock a shorf statement should | be made by this office covering a few of the points involved in the progress to date. A summary of these points | is about as follows: Several years ago the writer ob- served the presence of an anticline at | Table Rock. Later the different lime- stone and shale members of the| structure were worked in with con-| siderable detai. and " the different | members traced to and connected up | with the formations in Kansas. The structure was published by the Ne-| braska Academy of Science and the| report has had considerable distribu- tion. The fact of the matter is that the beds at Table Rock are of the same ag~ as those in south central| Kansas, A few thin members can be | traced between two areas. The beds at Eldorado and Augusta, Kan,, are of the same age and chajacter as| those of southeastern Gage county, Nebraska. With few exceptions the anticlines prospected in Kansas show the presence of either oil or*gas. By anticline is meant an upward or “A” like fold in the beds. It is unden such conditions that the largest num- | ber of occurrences of oil and gas have been found in our country. So the gealogist and oil prospector is al- ways hunting for anticlines. Soon after our report was publish- ed oil men became interested in thi not occur in southeastern Nebraska in favorable eonditions, there are other formations which might be the source of oil or gas. The second and most doubtful condition is the probable presence of { granite in this anticline at shallow This was called to our at- ention by drillings made at Dubois, Neb., Seneca and Zanedale, Kan. In at least two of these the well record as reported by the drillers is held somewhat in doubt. Whetker or not granite was struck is not definitely known by this office. Professor Ha- worth of the Univ y of Kansas and state geologist is firmly of the opinion that no granite was encoun- tered at Dubois or Seneca. The fact is that if granite doc, occur at shal- depths. |low depths in the vicinity of Table ras of any. conse- If this condi- there is a Rock no oil or quence will be fouvad. tion does not maintain | situation fully worth prospecting. on different occasions to Table Rock to dis- "We have been invited | cuss thig matter with citizens who met in public gatherings. The struc- ture relationship to Kansas fields, methods of leasing and drilling and other points were covered in these open meetings. The conclusion was reached that th area should be pros- pected but not on the basis of a stock subs:ription. It was decided that if 'competent and reliable persons en- gaged in the oil husiness could be induced to enter the area and make location and the office here was over- run with requests for information. | The field work had proven the con-| tinuity of beds between our state and | the oil fields of Kansas. Then, when a prominent oil man of the north-| west, Mr. C. J. Hurst, was attracted to the area by Senator Phil Kohl, it!| became necessary for the writer to go into the field and prove the struc- | ture relationships. This was done some five or six weeks ago. We drove over many-of the outcrops of southeastern Nebraska, pointing out the limestone and shale members, Then going across Kansas and zig- zagging pack and forth from east to west we observed again and again | the same formations there as here. | Finally after reach Eldorado and go- ing back to Eureka and then back to Scranton, Topeka and Lawrence, Mr. Hurst became convinced that the statements made in our publication were well’ founded. He saw in Ne- braska a more prominent anticline than occurs in Kansas. But while on this trip we outlined to Mr. Hurst {a test at their own expense it would XMAS SUGGESTIONS Jeweled Pins In many designs, solid . gold, up from $3.00. Platinum, with diamond center, $25 and more, Ryan Mefchandise. RYAN JEWELRY CO., Rose Bldg., 16th and Farnam. THE XMAS GIFT SHOP. e m— dings, pies or cakes. 13 Tbs. Best Pure Granulated Sugar $1.00 9 Bars ' Beat-'Em-All, Diamond C Swift's Pride Laundry Soaj 6 Cans Oil Sardines. 32-0z. Jars Pure Frui ve: 28-0z. 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Pel ton, $9.00 or Lump Hrey Co. 120 S. St. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER result in a benefit to that locality and to the state at large. The land owners attending the meeting and a few people in the town undertook to secure the leases for Mr. Hurst and Senator Kohl. To date a consider- able acreage has been leased and quite an amount of this is blocked out at a point east of Table Rock Geologists represeating the oil men are at work determining the most promising place to make the first test drilling. Mr. Hurst agrees to erect a standard derrick and bring a string of tools which will equip him to drill to a depth of 3,000 feet or more. Notwithstanding this fact a few are holding out, expecting the lessees to give them a bonus, i e, a | that some of these ar 13, 1916. 7 tion to,drill, So far as this office is concerned, we hope the state may sccure such tests as will prove the presence or absence of oil and gas, and to do so without cost to the state. It would seem that persons owning land in such places would be more ready than they have been at Table Rock to lease to men ready and willing to make the tests, especially so when the interests of the land owners are fully protected in the terms of the lease. The situa- tion, then, is about as follows No drilling is yet under way, hut work | will begin very soon if Mr. Hurst se- cures an adequate acreage of land at a point most desirable to him. We do payment per acre above the royalties,{not know how many persons taking . This to do, stating that no as covered in the leases. Hurst refuse practical oil operator would do so in|Some an unimproved area so [ar from a known oil region. came apparent that the drilling was to be made, several parties began an | | awaiting the attempt to secure leases and it seems | by other parties and at large expense. ' lodge hall and a small quantity of | careful to get genuine delatone. 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