Entries Containing All of the Phrases «reagan county» AND «texas»

By James Hulse, February 21, 2025

The Santa Rita No. 1 and Marker

RANKED BY RELEVANCE

1 ► Texas, Travis County, Austin, University of Texas at Austin — Santa Rita No. 1 —

Santa Rita No. 1 was the first producing oil well on Permanent University Fund Land's on Monday morning, May 28, 1923, it blew in to launch a new era in the development of the University of Texas and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. . . . — — Map (db m267213) HM

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2 ► Texas, Ector County, Odessa — 5298 — The Cable Tool Rig —

Equipment that replaced the spring pole drilling method used in America's earlier oil fields. The cable tool rig used a bit suspended on a steel drilling cable. The bit is dropped in the hole and the impact breaks up the formation. The broken pieces . . . — — Map (db m86316) HM

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3 ► Texas, Reagan County, Big Lake — 880 — City of Big Lake —

The land on which the original townsite of Big Lake was located was owned in 1903 by T. H. Taylor who sold 320 acres to the Orient Land Company, which agreed to build a railroad station and lay out a town to be called Big Lake. The city took . . . — — Map (db m136338) HM

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