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production of the Maud well was about 400 barrels per day 

 and that of the Nance well was al)out 125 barrels per day. 



The correlation of the limestone in the several wells is based 

 ui)on a similarity of the well logs and uiion fossils secured from 

 the fragments of the lime, ejected from the Maud • and Nance 

 wells when they were shot. The fossils thus obtained led the 

 writer to the conclusion that the limestone yielding the oil was 

 equivalent of the Hunton limestone of the Arbuckle Mountains. 

 This conclusion has been corroborated by Dr. J. J. Galloway 

 of Columbia University, Dr. Charles Schuchert of Yale University, 

 to whom small collections of the fossils were sent. 

 N(iTE: The complete paper of Mr. Morgan's on the subjects above 



discussed is lieing published b.y the Oklahoma Geological Survey. 



XLII. FORAKER LIMESTONE IN LINCOLN COUNTY 

 H. E. Lillibridge 



Frnni the Oklahoma Geological Survey. 

 A discussion of the Foraker limestone in Lincoln County was 

 .;ivcn from the field work in progress showing the occurrence 

 i.f this limestone across the eastern part of Lincoln County from 

 north to south. The formation has been mapped entirely across 

 the county although in some places it is very fragmentary and in 

 the southern part of the county has a thickness of less than four 

 inches. The horizon was followed chiefly by the fossil content 

 and peculiar weathering characteristics of the formation. 



XLIII. A NEW VARIANT OF THE HIDDEN TREASURE 



MYTH 



Chas. N. Gould, 



Oklahoma City^ Oklahoma 



The Hidden Treasure ;Myth is everywhere on the Great 

 [Mains. 1 have run across it as far south as the Rio ' Grande 

 and as far north as the Black Hills. It flourishes both along the 

 bluffs of the Mississippi, and among the granite peaks of the 

 Rockies. 



The myth, however, seems to attain its most virulent form in 

 the hill country of eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas. 

 Whether or not this is due to the general credulity of the inhabi- 

 tants of these regions is a mooted question. It is my present 

 opinion that although the habitat of the hidden treasure myth and 

 Thoburn's Natural Mounds coincides very slovenly, there is not nec- 

 essarily any connection between the two. 



It is safe to say that there is scarcely a county in any one 



