This psychic reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 14th day of January, 1928, in accordance with request made by Mr. [943].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Mr. L. B. Cayce and Mr. [943].

TEXT

1. GC: You will have before you Section 30 and Township 54 South, Range 34 East, in Monroe County, Florida. You will give log of well to be drilled in the above section, telling depth at which oil will be found and quantity that will be obtained. You will answer any questions I may ask you regarding this.
2. EC: Here we find some of the same territory as has been seen or had before. We find there are more than one stratum of oil producing area. In this particular we find there are two. One in the eighteen seventy-nine (1879), the other in the thirty-nine to thirty-nine ninety-nine (3900 to 3999). This being the heavier and the less in gravity. In operations we would find it necessary - in this unproven area - to use the rotary and the drill, or the rotary and the core; for this then would give or set the measure for the various stratums in this district; for, as has been given, this portion - or these districts outlying from portions of this country - will be one of the largest oil producing areas of the country or world, when these are located - traced out. Hence these variations as are given and the manner of conducting same.
3. We will find in drilling there will be encountered first that of the sedimentary, or muck or mud, with the formations of soft or porous rock; changing then to those of the harder stratum, under which various colors in this softer formations of rock, chalk, or of various phosphorus conditions will be encountered; with changing to thin stratums of a glass or coral like formations; these reaching in various depths until near the sixteen to eighteen hundred (1600 to 1800) feet; then suddenly changing into the heavier black lime, then a gray, and the first oil producing strata eighteen seventy-nine (1879). Through this we will encounter a black gray shale in heavy depth, though the oil in a brown sand and of sufficient quantity to be paying. Through this shale below this we encounter again sedimentaries of a very ancient age, taking in many of those that have been called cap mountain formations, through hickory sands or of again deep vegetation sands - yet very heavy and hard. Again entering the softer or chalky formations. These deep, and the larger production again in lime formation or heavy lime. This nearer gray or brown in its color. Here production would be very large. In the upper stratum from three hundred to fifteen hundred (300 to 1500). In the lower nearer the ten to fifteen to thirty thousand (10,000 to 15,000 to 30,000) barrels.
4. Ready for questions.
5. (Q) Would oil be found any deeper than the 3900?
   (A) In various portions of the territory this would vary in hundred to three hundred (100 to 300) feet. Here - about the thirty-nine ninety-nine - ninety-eight to ninety-nine (3999 - 98 to 99), see - the sands being nearly hundred (100) feet.
6. (Q) How thick would be chalk beds that they would go through?
   (A) The lower strata that of near fifteen hundred (1500) feet. The upper strata in chalk or glass with colors, two to three hundred (200 to 300) feet.
7. (Q) What would be the cost of the well to the 3999 feet?
   (A) The actual operation of drilling, without preparation and rate, near that of six to eight dollars ($6 to $8) per foot.
8. (Q) Would it be better to test out the 1879 depth before drilling to the 3999 depth?
   (A) This would prove the fields, yet this may be taken at this depth and the test made and the production used for fuel and operations for the next test along side of same, which would prove fields, and even the state and territory. We would take the one, then prove the other by rolling, skidding or moving rig.
9. (Q) Any other information that may be given to [943], present in this room, that these operations may be carried out?
   (A) Much information may be given as respecting the fields and the operations and conditions as surround same. There will be seen that in the early portion of February, present year, there will come somewhat different status as respecting oil projects, or the prospecting of the various fields for production, and that it will be easier to solicit aid of capital for such operations by the different status or price of oils and the various conditions as will be reported as existent in various portions of the world. This is worthy of note and should be assistant to the body in obtaining help and assistance. Use it in that way and manner. Do not abuse it, however.
10. We are through for the present.

BACKGROUND

1. See 5637-1 and 5637-2.

REPORTS

1. See subsequent readings in [943] series referring to various Florida lands propositions.

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