
Before the 1901 Spindletop well, Texas only experience with oil and gas was in Corsicana in 1894. That happened when metropolis of Corsicana drilled a few water boreholes at a depth only 1027 feet and the oil boom was on. The small town of Corsicana, (Just south of Dallas, Texas) became the first Texas Oil Boomtown.
The first well in the Spindletop Field was the Lucas #1 and was it a well. Unbelievable! This well blew oil and gas away for...