The first test boring by the Anglo-American Oil Company in this country was formally inaugurated on June 5.
The test well is at Grove Hill, near the village of Hellingly, Sussex. only a few miles from Heathfield, where the railway station was for many years lit by "natural gas."
Here, at the highest point in an eight miles "wrinkle" in the earth's surface, a great 122-feet derrick now towers above pastureland and woods. Beneath it, some 4000 to 4,500 feet below the surface, there is believed to be a pocket in the rising\slope of Possible oil-containing layer. Geologists say that if oil was indeed formed. millions of years ago in these strata, that pocket is a natural trap in which it might collect.
"Tt has been facetiously observed," Mr. F. J. Wolfe, chairman of the company, stated at a luncheon at Horselunges Manor after the opening ceremony, "that he who finds oil in commercial quantities in this country Should have a monument erected to him in Trafalgar Square beside that of Nelson,
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