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Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
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Copyright, iqoi, by Trost The Beatty Well at SpindletopSecond of the Texas gushers, and a great producer. Oil struck March 26, 1901
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MINING m It was not till 1911 that the field became a real producerwith half a million barrels to its credit. The oil is of veryhigh grade. It was Electra that checked the decliningTexas production, which had reached its twentieth-centuryminimum in 1910, and sent it climbing up again by producingmuch oil in 1912 and more oil in 1913 than all the otherfields put together. The Electra field, however, did notproduce as much excitement as Spindle Top. Prospecting for oil is now almost universal. The Thrallfield near Taylor looks good. The oil from this fieldis so rich in paraffine that the wells choke with it. The lossof time and the expense involved in melting out the paraf-fine have made this field an expensive one to work. Strawn,in the coal country, is producing 1,000 barrels a day. Afield near San Antonio is developing. It is impossible evento mention the hundred new localities where oil has beenrecently found. There are perhaps 1,500 producing wellson the Gulf Coast, 1,100 in the Wi

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