During the summer of 1922, oil was discovered in what promises to be commercial quantity on the Rafael Rios farm, John Henry Survey, six miles west of Luling, Texas. The facts as to the discovery are worthy of record here not only because discoveries of petroleum should always be recorded accurately and in detail, but because this particular discovery is a direct result of geologic investigation.
The new well is the property of the United North and South Oil Company, which in turn is largely owned and controlled by its president, Mr. Edgar B. Davis, a capitalist who has previously...
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