11/14/25 EC's letter to Riley Hurst:
115 West 35th Street,
Virginia Beach, Va.
Dear Riley:-
Just a little line to let you hear from us again. I was glad
to have yours sometime ago but have been extremely busy and
nothing especially interesting to write you about. Yes, I am
in hopes that the change will make things better for me. I
think I can stand it. I had some correspondence some days
ago - some people wanted to know something about what I knew
about Rocky Pasture [[
3777] - [
5628]]. Some more people I
think have been in there looking over the territory with the
view to drilling a well somewhere in that part of the world.
I'm in hopes that they'll make a go of it. No doubt you hear
of it and whatever information you get I'd be glad if you'd
pass it along, for that's a tender place in my heart and I am
in hopes that I will yet live to see the day that there is a
hole drilled there to twenty-six hundred feet.
Our people are still working on that hole [[
4905] series] in
Texas and I guess its one of the deepest ones ever drilled in
the United States. By far the deepest ever drilled in Texas.
Its about six thousand feet deep now, or better. Certainly
take some pressure to bring that to the top - but I believe
they're going to get it.
No, I don't think you need worry so much about the folks
settling down. You'll see the time when things will be
changed around considerably, and its going to behoove you to
be in the right sort of position to do the right thing when
that time comes. Maybe you feel like at the present time
you're going through a lot of unsatisfactory trials and
tribulations, yet I don't think there is any doubt but what
each and every trial prepares us for something else that
will make us all the better, if we'll only gain our lesson
properly, and I'm sure that you will see and realize that
things will be all the better for having had to undergo these
trials that you've had. That's seemingly poor consolation to
a fellow at times, and perhaps something a great deal easier
to preach than to practise; yet I believe I am speaking as
much or more from actual experience than I am from merely the
idea of a precept, for though I have not reached that place
that nothing worries and everything is satisfactory, still I
can see where some of the trials through which I have passed,
and of which you know a great deal about, has fitted me very
much better for the conditions that arise at the present
time.
I hope we are yet going to have the opportunity to try that
thing out in Arkansas [See [
3982] series, re Arkansas buried
treasure]. Hugh Lynn (I believe you remember him) has
been very much exercised about this ever since the first
information we had on it. Of course he's grown to be a great
big boy now. He's eighteen, nearly nineteen years old, and
is large in stature as I am. I think he'd like mighty well
to help try that thing out, and should you all decide to go
down there this Spring or Summer, why we'll be mighty glad to
lend whatever assistance it may be possible to help you get
the right line on it. I don't understand just where the
thing was in error the last time, but I'm sure it is there
and that it can be gotten, and I believe you're the man to
get it, else it never would have said, when first given,
"Give this information to Riley Hurst." True, this may be
a test for your own confidence and good faith, yet I'm sure
that you would not be found wanting in this respect, from
your own past experiences - even though this was a failure on
your last trip there.
I understand that there is liable to be a great deal of
activity in Texas this year - this next year I should say.
Perhaps more money will be spent in attempting to locate new
fields than there has been spent in Texas in a long time.
I'm certainly in hopes that you get in on something that's
real good and make a whole heap of money for yourself.
Let me hear from you whenever you have the opportunity,
remember me to the other folks whom know of me through
you, and with kindest personal regards to your good self,
Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
11/15/25 Mr. Wyrick's letter to EC:
TELEGRAM OIL COMPANY (Letterhead)
MORGAN, TEXAS
Dear Cayce
Your letter and reading of 11 received to day and very glad
to hear from you. The reading checks very closely with
conditions as they are. We were shut down when you gave the
reading waiting for fuel oil. It was received and drilling
resumed Thursday. They cleaned hole and gone on bottom
Friday have made only two or three feet since starting up so
according to the reading we have only four or five feet more
to go. We are 35 feet in Black lime well saturated with
oil. Moran our old driller is very confident we will get
production under this formation. It is so hard and cavings
bother so they make only a foot and sometimes less to the
tour. Every one that sees the formation and are content to
judge say we will sure get a big well. We are now having
enquiries about acreage and some offers of $10 per acre for
some of the outlying acreage. Moran told me that if he owned
the well he would not take $100,000 for just this one hole.
He has been very conservative all along. Only since he
picked up the black lime has he been at all excited. So the
prospects or best that have been. Your readings have been a
great help to all lends encouragement when most needed to the
investor and operator alike.
Very kindest regards and best wishes yourself & family and
Miss Gladys M B Wyrick
See
4905-45.
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