In my article “Stratigraphic Type Oil Fields and Proposed New Classification of Reservoir Traps,” which appeared in the April, 1943, issue of the Bulletin, reference was made to a paper on the Hitchcock field, Texas, by M. T. Halbouty and Benjamin T. Simmons in the symposium Stratigraphic Type Oil Fields. In their paper it was stated that the Hitchcock structure consisted of dips toward the south, west, and north, and that the stratigraphic pinch-out of the producing sand to the east was necessary for the presence of a trap in the Hitchcock area. The presence of east dip...

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