This Psychic Reading given by Edgar Cayce at his office, 115 West 35th Street, Virginia Beach, Va., this 9th day of August, 1926, in accordance with request made by Mr. [287].

Present: Edgar Cayce; Mrs. Cayce, Conductor; Gladys Davis, Steno. Dr. T. B. House and Mr. [287].

TEXT

1. GC: You will give a reading on a well now being drilled for oil in Section 19, Township 54, Range 35, in Dade County, Florida. You will now give the depth of the well drilled at present, and the condition of the well at present, and if you find water trouble tell us what to do to correct same. Then, after you give the instructions, then tell us the formation that we will encounter down to the oil strata. Tell us each formation and number of feet thick each formation will be, until we reach oil by drilling to 1875 feet, at which depth it was given we would get oil. Then give the production of oil when 975 feet is reached, and the production when the 1875 feet is reached by drilling, also telling of any other water trouble that we may encounter from the present depth of the well until we reach oil production. You will answer any questions that I will ask you regarding this.
2. EC: Yes, we have the well, the operations, here. This, as we see, we have had before.
3. The depth as is encountered at the present, at the six twenty-six (626), with the water troubles encountered at six twenty-one to six twenty-six (621 to 626), and the manner in which this should be handled, as we see, is: This should be drilled to six thirty-eight (638) and then this stream of water shut off, for there (638, see?) we encounter that formation that would prevent the water giving trouble.
4. From this depth we will encounter a strata of hard lime, changing again into the shale, after a depth of twenty to twenty-two (20 to 22) feet, and then shale and lime near to the seven fifty (750) feet, changing then to a strata of heavier lime and continuing same to fifty-six (56) feet, changing then to shale, muck, and lime, with some water - not sufficient to give trouble. Then the strata of oil in the nine seventy-five (975), and this production in THIS place being almost eligible, for we strike then a strata of water, with or just under same. Set the casing again in this. Then (that is, in the lime that's just below, see?) we find the constant change of the stratas of lime and shale, lime and shale, in various depths, to near that of the eighteen seventy-six (1876), where the oil will be found in the seventy-five, seventy-six, seventy-eight, seventy-nine (75, 76, 78, 79), see? We find the production in this location being near to that of twenty-two hundred (2200) barrels of oil per day. Ready for questions.
5. (After pause) Section 19, Township 54, Range 35, Dade County, Florida. We are through.

BACKGROUND

1. See 5741-3 on 7/31/26.

REPORTS

1. 8/24/26 Mr. [287] obtained 5742-1 on Lee County, Florida lands.
2. 8/30/26 See EC Work Rdg. 254-33, in re how to handle the situation to obtain finances for the work through rdgs. for Messrs. [2671], Mr. [943], etc., in re Florida lands.
3. 8/31/26 See 5741-5.

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