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hours on each of eight successive days in May and the production was at 

 the rate of 3 to 7 barrels per hour of pumping. What production steady 

 pumping would yield, it is impossible to say, as tanks have not been pro- 

 vided to take care of the oil. The Hendren well is said to have flowed 

 some 40 barrels in a few minutes shortly after it was drilled in. The 

 writer believes that a conservative estimate for the wells so far drilled 

 would be from 20 to 50 barrels each per day. 



Pipe line. The nearest pipe line is in Wayne County, Kentucky, about 

 18 miles away. The extension to reach *he Oneicla region would pass by 

 the group of wells now being drilled in Kentucky near the old Beatty well. 



QUALITY OF OIL. 



Oil from the Toomey No. 1 well has been analyzed by Dr. Paul C. 

 Bowers in the laboratory of the State Geological Survey with the follow- 

 ing results : 



Analysis of oil from Toomey No. 1 well. 



Base, paraffin. 



Color, dark brown. 



Gravity, 0.854 or 33.9 Pauine at 15 C or 59 F. 



Begins to boil at 58 C or 136.4 F. 



Flash point, 6 C or 21 F. 



Burning point, 22 C or 71.6 F. 



Sulphur 0.16. 



Water None. 



Fractional distillation. 



Light naphtha or benzine, distilling under 150 C 17.29% 



Burning oil, distilling under 150-300 C 31 . 14% 



Lubricating oils and residuum, distilling above 300 C 51 .57% 



A sample was sent to the U. S. Bureau of Alines at Pittsburg. Their 

 analysis is as follows : 



Sample of oil from Toomey No. 1 well, 4 miles in northwest 

 direction from Oneida, Scott County, Tennessee. 



Specific gravity at 15 C 8600 



Specific gravity ( Be) 32.79 



Viscosity ( Engler at 20 C) , 2.1 



Calories per gram 10689 



B. t. u. per pound 19240 



Water (per cent.) Trace 



Sulphur (per cent.) 0. 18 



Sand, etc .- . None 



Flash point (Pensky-Martens closed tester), below 5 C. 



