This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of April, 1926, in accordance with request made by Mr. [4906].
P R E S E N T
Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.
R E A D I N G
Time of Reading 11:50 A. M. Eastern Standard Time. San Saba Co., Texas.
1. GC: You will have before you lands in San Saba County, Texas, especially that known as Rocky Pasture, about ten to twelve miles northeast of San Saba, San Saba County, owned by Mrs. Julia A. Moore. You will give the geological lay of Rocky Pasture and vicinity, with reference to the prospects of locating oil. You will make specific location in Rocky Pasture for the drilling of such a well.
2. EC: [In undertone] "They're expecting her to die now." Yes, we have these lands. We have had these here before. [[3777] series?]
3. Now, in respect to the prospect of oil in this vicinity, and the lay or the geological outlook in this vicinity, we find these conditions exist:
4. In the Llano uplift, thirty to thirty-five (30 to 35) miles below (South) from this location, we find this land, Rocky Pasture and vicinity, the greater portion of same, is overlaid with the Pennsylvania sand and underlaid with the Two Bend Formations. Little of the cretaceous shows in this vicinity, but to the east there may be seen the outcropping of same, especially on the San Saba Knobs. The formations are such in this vicinity that we find the general lime lays in the angle of north and northwest, and is at near the ninety-four (94) degree, and that there are at least three distinct anticlines that pass through this portion and vicinity of Rocky Pasture. Also, to the south and west there is a cross anticline, forming directly in the farther north that anticline on which Sipe Springs and Erath fields are located.
5. As to the prospect of oil in this vicinity, we find these conditions then exist, with these GENERAL outlooks from the surface formation:
6. There are many sand beds, two to three out-croppings, in Rocky Pasture; of the red beds two to three out-croppings, especially in the Colorado and San Saba Rivers, one lying almost due east or forming the boundary of Rocky Pasture, there is an out-cropping of the bend lime. There is also in the San Saba, to the south and west, an outcropping of the bend lime, as is seen, twenty to twenty-two (20 to 22) miles
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below this the full outcropping of the bend lime, in its natural or original state.
7. Now we find in the vicinity of Rocky Pasture, lying between this anticline that passes to the east of same, through portion of the adjoining counties, and that on the west in the adjoining counties, where this bend formation and where this cross anticline, on which these northern fields are located, that there is produced in the vicinity of the Rocky Pasture that trap, which may be really called the Mother Pool, or that which has been and is the accumulation of ages, produced by this uplift lying south of this country and vicinity, see? for, as we see, to give the conditions as exist, and as existed in ages past, twice this vicinity has been inundated by the sea. When this uplift was the highest point in this great mountain range, extending all across from the Sierra Cordilleras to that of the White Mountains in New Hampshire. We find this condition was as the backbone, or the ridge, through this whole portion of the continent, and we will find, by drawing a line from that near Monterey in Mexico, on the eastern edge of Cordilleras, to that of near Concord, New Hampshire, that the greater part of the oil fields in the United States are located along the edges, either north or south of this line, as might be drawn. There will also be seen that this edge of San Saba County lies within this range. In the second inundation brought the first and second oil pools and sedimentary conditions to this portion of the uplift, and UNDER THIS FORMATION, which is known as NOT a sedimentary, may the oil be located, in that which may be known as the hickory sands, which will be found to be located in the Rocky Pasture at the GENERAL depth of twenty-four hundred to three thousand (2000 to 3000) feet from the surface.
8. In the location then of those for oil in this vicinity, we will find in this a specific manner. There is seen there passes through this tract of land known as Rocky Pasture a gulch, or a gulley, or a creek known as Little and Big Rocky. These join together on the western side of this tract, in the north and western side, about fifty yards from the line of the Murray property, see? In going almost due north from this gulch, thirty paces, we find there a flat or mesa land. That is the place to DRILL for oil, in this portion of Rocky Pasture. There will also be found, near the southwest end, where the out-cropping shows a portion of the red bed, and of the enormous lime rock, this would prove a place to drill also. THIS we would find some deeper than that as located near the gulch of Little and Big Rocky Creek, see?
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9. In the drilling we will find and encounter these conditions, for, as we find, there has been drilled, about a thousand and thirty yards, almost east, a little north by east, from this location, a well, to the depth of sixteen hundred (1600) feet. This is at the present time showing indications in the base of this, or where it was drilled to, of the seepage of oil and some gas, as may be seen by the water that may be drawn off from same at the present time.
10. As to the formations to be encountered, we find then as this:
11. Through the first eighty (80) feet we will find sand, gravel, sandstone, gravel, lighter shale, and in the loose shale, and just before reaching the sand, at a hundred and twenty to twenty-five (120 to 25) feet, the water will be encountered. This MAY be used for the drilling purpose, or for supplying water for such drilling purposes, for at the one thirty-two to thirty-five (132 to 35) the larger casing may be set, and the water drawn off or used from such. Then we will find we will encounter some black or gray lime, going through this into sand and shale again, until we reach near the depth of nine hundred and sixty-nine feet (969), where we will encounter another heavy lime. There casing should be set again to cut off the water appearing at the three to five hundred (300 to 500) feet level. Then we will encounter the gray lime, with some showing of an oil shale and...[Steno didn't get the preceding 2 lines.]...around the one thousand to eleven hundred (1000 to 1100) feet, and through this some two to three hundred (200 to 300) feet, near the fifteen hundred showing (1500), we will encounter some water again.
12. Then, setting casing around the sixteen to seventeen to eighteen hundred (16 to 17 to 1800) feet, we will then encounter that sand known as White Mountain, or Cap Mountain, or Green Mountain, and through this encounter the oil shale, and entering the oil bearing sands at near the twenty-six hundred (2600) feet, and we will find a very, very, large production, bringing near to forty, to sixty, to seventy thousand (40 to 60 to 70,000) BARRELS of crude oil, at a gravity of twenty-nine to forty (29 to 40) in this depth, and the NATURAL conditions surrounding this may enable the operators to care for same, see?
13. We are through.