This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at the Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, this 13th day of January, 1923.

Present: Edgar Cayce; Frank E. Mohr, Conductor; Fay Autry, Steno.

TEXT

1. FEM: Mr. Cayce, you have before you the land included in Sections 3, 10, 11 and 22, Township 2, Range 13, Lauderdale County, Alabama. You will tell if there is oil or gas there in commercial quantities, and if so, is the oil or gas there accumulated in an anticline, a dome or a terrace, and which way does the structure run.
2. EC: Now this is the district that we have had before: part of same. The real structure runs Northeast and Southwest. It tends to be East and West for this district, here.
3. In some places, some of these, there would be oil-bearing possibilities - more gas than oil. Get gas here from the cross structure to the Northeast and Southwest.
4. The accumulations are in anticlines, domes and over-laps, East side.
5. There is gas though, especially in 22, Western part.
6. Closer to the edge, which comes closer to the river we have minerals. Some dolomite, some coal, some iron, along the Eastern slope, outcropping in the hill across on the Eastern side of 22.
7. In the Western part of 22 we find gas. We find gas at the cross structure there where the Southeast-Northwest and North-South structures cross.
8. Better minerals: Fluxingspar, that would be most valuable would be found in this?
9. (Q) Would that be in SECTION 22?
   (A) Eastern part, here, of 3. Iron and dolomite in 22, Western part of 22.
   In 10 there is gas. There is fire clay and lime in 10.
   There is fluxingspar and fuller's earth in 3.
   There is gas and oil, some gas, not much oil, in 10, you see.
10. (Q) How much gas would be in Section 22?
    (A) About several trillion cubic feet.
11. (Q) At what depth would this be encountered?
    (A) Thirteen to thirty five hundred feet.
12. (Q) In what formation would the first gas be struck?
    (A) In the sands where oil has been.
13. (Q) What system of drilling should be used to obtain this?
    (A) Any way to get a hole in the ground.
14. (Q) What would be the daily pressure of gas in the upper formation?
    (A) That depends on where you drill.
15. (Q) Is there a mark on the surface where it should be drilled?
    (A) Several of them.
16. (Q) Please describe one of these marks?
    (A) Where the chestnut log is lying across the branch; Northeast half of 22. In this place at the 1,300 foot level, there is five to ten million cubic feet daily pressure.

BACKGROUND

1. See 4416-1.

REPORTS

1. 6/18/23 See 4416-3.

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