The Discovery Of Spindle-Top

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  • The Discovery of Spindle-Top

    Jan. 10, 1901, is the most famous date in Texas petroleum history. This is the date that the great gusher erupted in the oil well being drilled at Spindletop, near Beaumont, by a mining engineer, Capt. Anthony. F. Lucas.

  • The Discovery of Burkburnett

    A wildcat well comes in on S. L. Fowler’s farm near a small North Texas community on July 29, 1918.

  • Discovery of East Texas

    The East Texas field, biggest of them all, was discovered near Turnertown and Joinerville, Rusk County, by veteran wildcatter C. M. Joiner in October 1930. The success of this well — drilled on land condemned many times by geologists of the major companies — was followed by the biggest leasing campaign in history.

  • The Discovery of West Texas

    A discovery well in Scurry County on Nov. 21, 1948, was the first of several major developments in that region. Many of the leading Texas counties in minerals value are in that region.