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Identifier

20133039

Description

Drilling is under way on the deepest wildcat ever scheduled in Johnson County, Austral Oil Exploration Company, included, Houston, No. 1 Roy C. Gage, Jackson County School Land, A-435, a 9,000-foot test six miles west of Cleburne. This is a bird's-eye view of the 128-foot tower as seen from the rig floor.

Archival Date

1953-02-05

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-771

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Oil well drilling rigs; Petroleum industry

Names

Austral Oil & Exploration, Inc.

Subjects

Oil well drilling rigs; Petroleum industry

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