This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 16th day of December, 1925, involuntarily; that is, volunteered without request or suggestion being given to obtain it, following a dream interpretation for Mr. [137] and a physical for Mr. [304].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno.

TEXT

1. EC: Now, we have here the conditions as surround the operations in the well on the lands of Madison Byron Wyrick, in Bosque County, Texas.
2. The conditions as have been produced in the operations, by water and caving (on account of conditions as have been given), these have caused some delay, and are trying to the temperament of all concerned.
3. The conditions as regarding everything surrounding - the tools, in this has been some unsatisfactory conditions; yet we find these, with persistence, with care and attention, should carry out these operations to completion, and that these should be able to be terminated now in the next few days, with a successful bringing in of the large producing well, see? for in the next few feet in this black lime should be encountered that break in which the sands carry that formation - six to eight (6 to 8) feet.
4. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. See 4905-48.
2. 12/10/25 G. C. Martin's wire to M. B. Wyrick:
   MORGAN TEX 735P DEC 10 1925 M B WYRICK CHICAGO ILL.
   NINETY FOUR SAME FORMATION TOOLS RUNNING CLEAR TODAY
   G C MARTIN
3. 12/11/25 G. C. Martin's wire to Mr. Wyrick:
   MORGAN TEX 10:55 AM DEC. 11 1925 M B WYRICK CHICAGO ILL.
   LIME HARDER THAN EVER BUT LITTLE CAVING TODAY
   G C MARTIN
4. 12/12/25 G. C. Martin's wire to Mr. Wyrick:
   MORGAN TEX DEC 12 1925 M B WYRICK CHICAGO ILL.
   LINE RAN OFF REEL LAST NIGHT CAUSED BREAK JUST ABOVE SAND PUMP TOOLS STOPPED ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FEET OFF BOTTOM HOLE HAD BRIDGED THERE NOT CLEAN TO BOTTOM YET I HAD JUST LEFT THE WELL WHEN IT HAPPENED THE SAMPLE SHOWS BETTER WHITE LIME THAN ANY WE HAVE HAD
   G C MARTIN
5. 12/13/25 G. C. Martin's wire to Mr. Wyrick:
   MORGAN TEX 13 M B WYRICK CHICAGO ILL.
   WILL CLEAR HOLE SOON AS CAVINGS STOP COMING IN BOTH DRILLERS THINK THEY WERE NEAR PRODUCTION WHEN THEY LOST PUMP HAVE NOT GOTTEN DOWN TO IT YET NOT BEST TO SHOOT BEST TO DRILL DEEPER LEACH THINKS IT WILL MAKE A RECORD WELL
   G C MARTIN
6. 12/14/25 G. C. Martin's wire to Mr. Wyrick:
   MORGAN TEX 14 M B WYRICK CHICAGO ILL.
   SAND PUMP LODGED WHERE HOLE WAS REDUCED IN LIME HAVE ORDERED SOCKET AND FISHING JARS WE NEED ON THE JOB PAT IS SURE HE WILL FISH THE PUMP OUT MAY TAKE SOME TIME HAVE ONLY THIRTY INCHES FUEL OIL COLD WAVE RAGING HERE TONIGHT G. C. MARTIN
7. See Source Key File #4905 for 12/14/25 newspaper article, "Dig Jewish Art Objects Out of Arizona Sands - May be Relics of a Lost Nation" re 4905-49.
8. 12/15/25 Mr. Wyrick's note which crossed EC's in the mail: "Dear Cayce, Old man, bad luck is still with us. I have not much hope left. Could you give anything that might help in remaining baler or in placing a shot in bottom - under baler. Could nitro glycerine be dumped and find opening pass the baler - best wishes, MBW"
9. 12/15/25 G. C. Martin's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
   TELEGRAM OIL COMPANY - Morgan Texas
   Dear Mr. Wyrick:-
   The weather is bad here today - but little rain, some sleet, it's about down to 22 above 0 this a.m.
   It is hard to explain in a telegram about a fishing job. Pat got the tools down about six or eight feet past top of pump as is shown by iron marks on bit and stem. We were unable to get a socket to go over the top of plunger, Morgan went out to Gorman to get a mouse trap socket and fishing jars, but failed to get them this a.m. The shop has been moved to Pioneer. Pat took a socket to Clifton to be turned down so we may get it over top of plunger. I think it is over against the wall of hole, and may have to be straightened up before we can get anything over it. You see it went back from top full or partly full so the plunger can't go back in it. After getting cleansed of the cavings out it does not seem to be caving much. Pat feels sure it won't take long to get this out after he gets ready. I am of the opinion it will take quite a while to get it out.
   We're afraid to run into the hole any more after locating the pump until we were ready with fishing tools ready.
   On last Friday night Leach and White were positive they had picked up a better showing than they had ever had in the well, so now they are wild about it for they were getting blue, but Pat and Morgan were still of good faith. They are all of the opinion that a few more feet will make a big well.
   The notary has been away on court so I have had to wait for him on these assignments, everything else fine shape. We are looking for you Xmas.
   Sincerely, G. C. Martin

REPORTS

1. 12/16/25 EC's letter to M. B. Wyrick:
   115 West 35th St., Virginia Beach, Va.
   Dear Mr. Wyrick:-
   Just a little note to enclose you the information as was gotten this morning. Seems we've been having some more trouble. I hope though it's no worse than it indicates here and that very suddenly we're going to break through into the production. I certainly appreciate your letting me have the reports as you have, and I hope you'll let me hear from you whenever it is possible.
   With kindest personal regards from all,
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
2. 12/16/25 G. C. Martin's wire to Mr. Wyrick:
   8 Pd
   MORGAN TEX DEC. 16 9:18 A
   M. B. WYRICK 427 SOUTH LASALLE ST., CHICAGO, ILL.
   RUNNING COMBINATION SOCKET TRYING TO CATCH SAND PUMP
   G. C. MARTIN
3. 12/16/25 G. C. Martin's wire to Mr. Wyrick:
   1925 DEC 16 pm 9 35
   DB 797 57 NL MORGAN TEX 16
   M. B. WYRICK 427 SOUTH LASALLE ST., CHICAGO, ILL.
   COMBINATION SOCKET FAILED TO GO OVER SAND PUMP TOP OF PLUNGER ROD SEEMS TO BE OVER AGAINST THE WALL. WE ARE GETTING A TUBBING HOOK TO RUN TO EITHER GET HOLD AND BRING IT OUT OR STRAIGHTEN UP HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET IMPRESSION OF THE TOP FOR EVERYTHING GOES BY AND STOPS SIDE OF PUMP.
   G. C. MARTIN
4. 12/17/25 EC's wire to M. B. Wyrick: Mr. M. B. Wyrick Room 308, 427 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, Ill.
   Information [4905-49] in mail let me know what is best to ask on receipt of same with this report I believe more than ever we will get it yet.
   Edgar Cayce
5. 12/18/25 G. C. Martin's wire to Mr. Wyrick:
   1925 DEC 18 pm 12 36
   HSA171 10
   MORGAN TEX 18 1215P
   M. B. WYRICK 427 SOUTH LASALLE ST., CHICAGO, ILL.
   HAD TO HAVE HOOK MADE TO CATCH ROD ABOVE PUMP
   G. C. MARTIN
6. 12/19/25 Psychic reading given by Rose Vail for G. W. Loveall:
   THE MEDIUM - MRS. ROSE VAIL - PASTOR OF SPIRITUALIST CHURCH - 3743 JANSSEN AVENUE - CHICAGO ILL.
   READING FOR GEORGE W. LOVEALL TIME - 2 P.M.
   Question: Sometime ago I made an investment.
   Answer: Yes, in oil - in Texas.
   Question: Tell me something of general conditions, present depth and whether or not the project will be successful.
   Answer: Things seem to be at a standstill caused by an obstruction. This obstruction has been in effect for several days, but will be overcome and removed within a few days more. The project will be successful.
   Question: What is the nature of the obstruction and at what point in the hole does it occur?
   Answer: It is caused by an iron tool. I see a series of spirals or loops lying on top of it. Take me down Chief. It's getting hot! I am burning up. - 500 feet down - Many times 500 feet to point where obstruction occurs. The removal of this is a tedious, hazardous job, but it will be removed.
   Question: If successful, what will the production be?
   Answer: 15000.
   Question: Are you sure?
   Answer: 15000.
   Question How soon will it be successful.
   Answer: This is one, or I will say, [of] the biggest, no - I will say the biggest thing in an investment way that has ever come to me. It will be a small beginning. I do not mean that the well will be small, I mean that the 15000 first production is small to the ultimate production of the project. I repeat, this is one of the biggest things that has ever been brought to me and it will be successful. When the trees begin to bud in Texas as they do in Chicago in the Spring of the year, you will feel free and happy and your financial troubles and worries will be over.
   I do not mean that you will have to wait that long for production (that will be within three weeks) but that you will have received some benefits from the investment.
   (Pause) Have I told you anything, Mr. Loveall, out of proportion? I am asking you this because I do not know a thing about oil wells.
   Let us try again! No questions.
   Who is this man - W - i - no, W - y -
   (Answered too quickly by Loveall) - Wyrick.
   He is all right. He knows what he is doing. He knows his business. He is going along doing the best he can with the means at his disposal. (Pause) The messages you are receiving on this proposition from a similar source are good. Tell me Chief, be sure, are they right? They are.
   The vibrations around you and this project are tremendous and it will be successful - more successful than any one connected with it has even hoped up to the present time. Success beyond their highest expectations.
7. 12/19/25 Mr. Wyrick's letter: "We have not yet got the baler - sand pump - out of the well. Pat is very hopeful."
8. 12/19/25 See 254-27 indicating that help will come to EC work from oil fields, etc.
9. 12/21/25 EC's letter to Mr. Wyrick:
   115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va.
   My dear Mr. Wyrick:-
   It was not my purpose to delay the reading on the well, when I wired you the other day, but rather that we might have more definite questions as regarding same, for I felt like the information in the reading we had, having already given it as would happen, with your new report, might give you a better idea as to how to question same. I wired you again this afternoon - have been waiting on reply of wire of the 17th would like to help if I can - let me hear and hope we can be of help.
   As you will see, we have been taking some readings as regarding our work, through the dreams [294-53]. I am in hopes that this is not a worry to you, but rather something that will be of real interest, for, seemingly, there was some reference made to the very conditions as were gotten in that reading on well, and, as I said in my wire, from this present reading here, and from the reading on the well, somehow it just made me feel sure it would work out - though it seems like every sort of a trouble is all flying about us all at this present time, but we are hoping for brighter days yet. I'd like to know just what you think about this, when you have the time to write.
   With kindest personal regards from everyone here, and wishing you the compliments of the Season.
   Sincerely, Edgar Cayce EC:GD
10. 12/21/25 Mr. Wyrick's wire to EC:
    7fhx DH Chicago Ill Dec. 21 25
    Edgar Cayce Virginia Beach Va.
    My condition unchanged message seventeenth not understood wrote you saturday
    M B Wyrick 519P
11. GD's note: In his letter of 12/19/25 asking for a physical reading Mr. Wyrick said he didn't understand EC's wire of 12/17/25 in relation to reading 4905-49 since it said "What is best to act on?" Evidently the message misread "act" instead of "ask".
12. 12/22/25 See 4905-50.

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