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TEXAS PETROLEUM.
was filled up. Samples of the asphalt obtained from near St. Jo have
been sent to the Survey, in addition to the samples of asphalt rock. They
are of good quality. The.area over which the asphalt rock is found is
said to be about twelve miles wide, and of unknown extent toward the
northwest, St. Jo occupying about the middle of the deposit at its lower
or southeast end.
The existence of asphalt in Montague and Cooke counties has been
known for some years, but the field has been little explored. Its nearness
to cities and towns in that part of the State would seem to offer very
favorable opportunities for using it as a paving material, and this has
been done to some extent in St. Jo, with good results.
In the latter part of April of this year, gas and oil were struck in a
well a mile north of Muenster. The oil was first found at a depth of 100
feet, but was largely of an asphaltic nature, being black and somewhat
thick. What the developments will be in depth remains to be seen. The
Montague-Cooke field is worthy of further investigation, and the results
of work now in progress will be awaited with a great deal of interest.
The field lies between the Carboniferous and the Cretaceous, with no
very clearly defined limits as yet. Even where the Cretaceous shows on
the surface it is possible that the drill will penetrate the Coal Measures
in depth, or possibly the Devonian. The Carboniferous formation in that
part of the State is considerably narrower than is the case farther toward
the southwest, and the connection of the Montague-Cooke field with the
uplift near Graham may lead to a closer knowledge of the commercial
possibilities with respect to asphalt, oil and gas.
In a well bored twenty-five miles west of Graham, on Young county
school land, gas was found at 175 feet, and again at 364. There are 300
feet of salt water in the well and at times it is forced out by the gas,
which, on ignition, burns with a flame twenty feet high. No oil was
found in this well, although some has been found in neighboring wells.
Another well, 175 feet deep, nineteen miles southwest from Graham, had
a strong flow of gas, but is now caved in.
The Falls at Graham appear to be the dividing line between the salt
water and the fresh, the former.being below the Falls. The dip of the
rocks is about twenty-five feet per mile west and northwest, but at the
uplift, a mile north of Graham, the dip increases to forty-five and even
to sixty degrees.
Along the uplift, which extends northeast and southwest of Graham
for a total distance of about forty miles, there are indications of both gas
and oil, and it is probable that in this region systematic prospecting
would reveal either gas or oil, or both, in commercial quantities.
An extension of this line for sixty miles to the northeast would bring
one to the vicinity of St. Jo, Montague county, and Muenster, Cooke
county, where the indications for both gas and oil are of an encouraging
nature.
St. Jo is on the eastern edge of Montague county and Muenster is
about twelve miles southeast of St. Jo. They lie a little east of the line
of the Carboniferous, the Cretaceous impinging somewhat upon it here.
In the vicinity of St. Jo there are extensive deposits of asphalt rock,
samples of which showed the following composition in the laboratory of
this Survey:32
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