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	Spindletop
		Spindletop is the name of a small knoll just south of Beaumont Texas.
		Before Spindletop, a big producer flowed 50 barrels (8 cubic meters)per day.
		Spindletop marked the beginning of the modern petroleum industry.
	sln.fi.edu /fellows/fellow2/jan99/spindletop.html (252 words)

	SpindletopCeleb 02:2001 Explorer
		Spindletop's centennial anniversary was marked on Jan. 10 with thousands of participants who gathered at the site for speeches, activities and a re-enactment of the gusher that represents the oil industry's beginnings.
		The HGS trip to Spindletop, held the weekend before the centennial observation, attracted more than 350 participants as Halbouty retold, with enthusiasm and in his own words, the story of the Spindletop discovery and its importance in world history.
		Halbouty talked of the difficulties, ridicule and hardships faced by the Spindletop discoverers, and suggested that the best advice he could give today's explorationists is not to give up in the face of adversity.
	www.aapg.org /explorer/2001/02feb/spindletop.cfm (512 words)

	GN Online: Texas marks big find that launched oil industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Spindletop discovery challenged the belief, held by most U.S. geologists since Edwin Drake discovered oil in Pennsylvania in 1859, that reserves were mainly concentrated in the East.
		Convinced that Spindletop was worth pursuing, but having exhausted his own resources, Lucas entered into a partnership with James Guffey and John Galey of Pittsburgh, the leading wildcatters of their day, who in turn secured financing from Pittsburgh bankers Andrew and Richard Mellon.
		In 1902 Spindletop produced 17.5 million barrels of oil, about one fifth of the U.S. total, but excessive drilling led to a decline in underground pressure and output and, just 10 years after Lucas struck oil, Spindletop had become a ghost town.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=6546 (1072 words)

	SPINDLETOP THE UNTOLD STORY by Christine Moor Sanders
		The Untold Story of Spindletop is told as seen through the eyes of Captain George Washington O’Brien and the Gladys City Company.
		The door is opened to examine the moral fabric, zest and intrigue of those early pioneers as their lives weave the tapestry of history.
		The company still holds its producing lands on Spindletop Hill adjacent to the McFaddin, Weiss and Kyle tract, where the famous "Lucas Gusher" was born.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/TCGS/Spindletop.html (242 words)

	Spindletop Refuge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Spindletop Refuge is committed to the successful rehabilitation and placement of abandoned, abused, stray and shelter euthanasia bound dogs.
		Spindletop is actively involved in helping owners to understand and train their dogs versus abandoning them to the overburdened animal control system.
		Spindletop dogs are evaluated for a companion temperament and we know each dog's personality and what you can expect from the dog.
	www.petfinder.org /shelters/pitbullrescue.html (666 words)

	Hazardous Business - The Oil Wars - Page 2 - Texas State Library
		If the discovery of oil at Corsicana was the result of luck, the discovery known simply as Spindletop was the result of technical knowledge and deliberate exploration.
		With his knowledge of geology, Lucas believed that a large salt dome known as Spindletop would have a large pool of oil associated with it.
		Spindletop was the beginning of an incredible boom that created the Texas oil industry.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /exhibits/railroad/oil/page2.html (1185 words)

	Spindletop, When oil became an industry.
		Higgins had spent most of the previous decade trying to convince others that this was so and raise capital to drill a discovery well.
		The Spindletop gusher was located on land owned by the McFaddin, Weiss, and Kyle families, adjacent to dry holes drilled earlier.
		He collected empty bottles behind saloons, filled them with oil from the lake created by Spindletop, and sold them for $1 each to tourists who had ridden special excursion trains from Houston and New Orleans to view the phenomenon.
	www.texasescapes.com /DEPARTMENTS/Guest_Columnists/East_Texas_all_things_historical/OilIndustryHistory1200AMD1.htm (448 words)

	UK Alumni Association - Spindletop Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A BENEFIT of membership in the UK Alumni Association is the eligibility to be a member of Spindletop Hall.
		Membership in Spindletop Hall is open to UK Faculty, staff, and alumni.
		Spindletop Hall offers members a beautiful facility with full service dining, Sunday buffets, and casual grill for light meals.
	www.ukalumni.net /aboutus/spindletop.htm (127 words)

	Spindletop APBT/AST Refuge
		Spindletop Refuge is dedicated to the successful rehabilitation and rehoming of homeless, abused and neglected dogs for over eighteen years, specializing in the APBT and AST.
		Spindletop is located in Texas but helps dogs from all over the country.
		Without the generosity of all the Spindletop Supporters with their donations for gas, food, and lodging, we would have been unable to do the whole Katrina rescue effort.
	www.spindletoppitbullrefuge.org (272 words)

	Helmerich & Payne History Chapter 6.4
		It was a mobile unit, 352 feet long, 76 feet wide, and 19 feet deep that could drill in water up to 600 feet in depth.
		It was felt that Spindletop would be a new beginning for Helmerich and Payne, and could offset the decline in land-based drilling in the United States, where the number of active rigs in 1967 had dropped to less than 1,000.
		Unfortunately, in 1969, while drilling under contract to Shell and the Italian government off the coast of Italy, Spindletop was severely damaged during a storm.
	www.hpinc.com /history/Chapter_6/Chapter_6.4/chapter_6.4.html (545 words)

	Spindletop, AAPG EXPL century
		The Lucas gusher at Spindletop, January 10, 1901.
		Michel T. Halbouty agreed that the frustrations endured by Pattillo Higgins (who discovered Spindletop) - inadequate capitalization, scientific demurrals, technical difficulties - are in essence the same obstacles that today's independents must overcome, though the exact circumstances differ.
		A low rumbling sound came from underground, and then, with a force that shot six tons of four-inch pipe out over the top of the derrick, knocking off the crown block, the Lucas Gusher roared in and Spindletop, history's most famous oil field, was born.
	www.aapg.org /explorer/special/spIndletop.html (1102 words)

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