174 RESOURCES OF TENNESSEE. 



Recent Oil Developments Near Oneida, 

 Scott County, Tennessee 



BY L. C. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Location. Scott County is situated on the northern part of the Cumber- 

 land Plateau and .has the Kentucky State line as its northern boundary. 

 Oneida is in the north-central part of the County on the C., N. O. & T. P. 

 railroad, and the recent oil developments have been about four miles north- 

 west of town. Two wells are now drilling in town and a number of other 

 locations have been made especially to the north and west of the town, as 

 may be seen from the accompanying- map, Eig. 1. Some of these located 

 wells will probably be drilling and other locations will doubtless have been 

 made before this report is published. 



Basis of report. The work of the writer, for the past few summers, on 

 the coals of the northern part of the Cumberland Plateau has made him 

 familiar with the general geology of Scott County and the adjacent re- 

 gion. In June a week was spent in the field studying the geology with 

 especial reference to the occurrence, of oil and a second visit was made to 

 the field in mid-August. Mr. Henry F. Bain was employed to collect 

 samples of the borings from the West No. 1, Toomey No. 2 and Hendren 

 No. 1 wells. The accompanying logs and plotted sections of these three 

 wells have been made from these samples, while the logs of Toomey No. 1 

 and Easter No. 1 wells have been taken from the drillers' records. 



The materials collected by Mr. Bain have been carefully studied and 

 compared with each other by the writer and chemical analyses of certain 

 of the "sands" have been made by Dr. Bowers in the laboratory of the 

 Survey. Analyses of the oil have been made both by Dr. Bowers and by 

 the U. S. Bureau of Mines. 



Acknowledgments. The writer is especially indebted to Mr. Chas. W. 

 Whitcomb, Mr. J. P. Hambrick, the Syndicate Oil and Gas Company, and 

 the drillers of the three wells, sampled by Mr. Bain, for drillers' logs and 

 facilities and aid in collecting samples as well as for much general infor- 

 mation as to activities in the field. He is also greatly indebted to Mr. 

 Bain for the care with which the samples were collected. 



