What no oilman likes to contemplate was in progress last week. In Rusk County, eastern Texas, a new, lively oil boom was in full swing. Sober men gravely predicted that the field may turn out to be second only to prodigious Kettleman, may ruin the delicately balanced price situation.
About a month ago a well was brought in in the southern part of Rusk County. Then the No.1 Lou Della Crim Well came in on the Crim farm about twelve miles north of the first well, near the village of Kilgore. The entire town turned...
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