discovery well and the beginning of active development, Texas today claims honors south of Beaumont, Spindletop was first and one of the most prolific of Gulf But the real story of early Texas oil begins in Southeast Texas, along the Upper Captain Lucas insisted on drilling at Beaumont, and we give his own version of "On his arrival, he showed some excitement and asked how much of a well I 10 Jan 2013 A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. The first great Texas oil gusher was discovered at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas on 19 Mar 2014 forest after America's first major oil well was discovered near Titusville. In 1901, people flooded Beaumont, Texas, when Spindletop gushed.
But the real story of early Texas oil begins in Southeast Texas, along the Upper Captain Lucas insisted on drilling at Beaumont, and we give his own version of "On his arrival, he showed some excitement and asked how much of a well I 10 Jan 2013 A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. The first great Texas oil gusher was discovered at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas on 19 Mar 2014 forest after America's first major oil well was discovered near Titusville. In 1901, people flooded Beaumont, Texas, when Spindletop gushed. 1 Jan 2004 It was almost incidental to the worldwide petroleum industry that drillers took with a large shipyard at Beaumont, Texas, and the R.G. LeTourneau Co., 1938 First well drilled offshore Texas (Galveston Bay – Standard Oil).
But the real story of early Texas oil begins in Southeast Texas, along the Upper Captain Lucas insisted on drilling at Beaumont, and we give his own version of "On his arrival, he showed some excitement and asked how much of a well I 10 Jan 2013 A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. The first great Texas oil gusher was discovered at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas on 19 Mar 2014 forest after America's first major oil well was discovered near Titusville. In 1901, people flooded Beaumont, Texas, when Spindletop gushed. 1 Jan 2004 It was almost incidental to the worldwide petroleum industry that drillers took with a large shipyard at Beaumont, Texas, and the R.G. LeTourneau Co., 1938 First well drilled offshore Texas (Galveston Bay – Standard Oil). 1 Jan 2017 The first major well drilled by the new method was the Lucas Spindletop discovery well completed near Beaumont, Texas, on January 10, 1901. 5 Mar 2000 Correction/Clarification: (Published March 7, 2000) The first oil well that A story about the Spindletop well in Beaumont, Texas, was incorrect.
Also available are oral histories from Al and Curt Hamill, and other early oil pioneers recorded in the early 1950s. The Spindletop oilfield, discovered on a salt dome formation south of Beaumont in eastern Jefferson County on January 10, 1901, marked the birth of the modern petroleum industry. James Clark of Cincinnati and his cousin Dan Profitt of Elsmere, Ky., say their great-uncle, James Meadors, was an oil driller who was deeded a one-eighth interest in mineral rights to 10 acres If one had asked him on January 10, he would have said the great gusher at Spindletop - a salt dome about three miles south of Beaumont. Dubbed "The Lucas Gusher," the oil discovery on Spindletop Hill changed the economy of Texas and helped to usher in the petroleum age.
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