1/25/21 Affidavit:
STATE OF OKLAHOMA,
COUNTY OF TULSA
I, J. D. Vinson, of Collinsville, Oklahoma, being first duly
sworn, according to law, deposes and says:
That my experience with Edgar Cayce, of Selma, Alabama, in
connection with the location of oil and oil properties:
1st: That I am the owner of several thousand acres of oil
leases in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, and that almost a
year ago I became acquainted with Mr. Cayce, having heard of
some wonderful results he was obtaining in locating oil in
Texas; became very much interested and decided later to test
his method. I had Mr. Cayce give me a reading on an 80 acre
tract of land in Washington County, Oklahoma, on which I was
then preparing to drill a well. The report Mr. Cayce gave me
on this was that we would encounter oil at around 400 feet,
and that the second sand would be dry, but that a third sand
still deeper would be productive. We, however, did not drill
to the third sand in this well, but did encounter a shallow
oil, as predicted by Mr. Cayce, and the second sand was dry,
as he also predicted; later we drilled to the third sand, a
little over a half mile West of this location and encountered
oil at the third sand. This well has not been completed
because of a bad hole and water trouble but we are now
preparing to drill another well on the same lease on the
strength of the showing in this well drilled to the third
sand. I later gave Mr. Cayce a test on a large body of
leases in Arkansas [3777-9], a copy of reading on this has
been forwarded to David E. Kahn, at New York. As no oil has
been discovered on this land, I can only say that Mr. Cayce
described the property identically as it lies, and his
prediction is that oil will be discovered in quantities up to
5,000 bbls to the well, and locates the producing territory
in conformity to maps gotten up by the United States
Geological Survey, and referred to later.
The fact that Mr. Cayce described the property so accurately
seems wonderful to me, from the fact that to my knowledge, he
has never seen the locality.
In his references, "The pools lying more to the West and
closer to the hills which extend farther South along the
water shed of this District.
"The strata of oil runs Northeast by Southwest near the pools
of the Southern part of Township 17."
It is exactly here in the Southern part of this township that
we find Pennsylvania formation clearly defined by the U.S.
Geological Atlas, folio 202, Eureka Springs and Harrison
Quadrangle, and it is here we find marked evidences of
buckles, also croppings of oil shale referred to in the above
named folio, and also evidences of oil encountered in
drilling water wells. The district has never been tested by
deep drilling, but gives every promise of yielding oil, as
predicted by Mr. Cayce.
I make no claim for Mr. Cayce's ability to locate oil other
than my own actual experience.
[signed] J. D. Vinson
Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 25th day of
January, 1921.
[signed] Beulah A. Hull, Notary Public
My commission expires March 27th, 1922
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