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...semi-scientific basis. Scouring the earth's surface with geologists and expensively equipped seismographic crews, they played no hunches, never drilled until they found indication of oil-bearing structure. These methods have vastly lowered the percentage of dry wells drilled. But many an important field (like "Dad" Joiner's huge East Texas discovery in 1930) is still brought in by wildcatters...
Adam Ramage was a handy Scots wood-joiner who emigrated to the U. S. around 1790 and went into the business of making printers' materials. He built his first presses out of Honduras mahogany, added iron to beds and platens to make them durable, finally abandoned wood for iron throughout. Ramage's presses helped to found many a great U. S. newspaper, stamped many a page of U. S. history on single sheets of dampened paper before Robert Hoe developed the revolving press...
Sheriff Guy Joiner of Boss Crump's Shelby County made a face. "Should these so-called State police show up in this county carrying pistols," said he, "I'll put every one of 'em in jail...
...with a billion barrels of oil being produced in the U. S., the price was $1.27 a barrel, high enough to give a company like Gulf Oil $44,000,000 in profits. Then a wildcatter named Dad Joiner brought in a well in East Texas and. within a year crude was selling...
...them. . . . The boys will appreciate it more if they have to dig the money out themselves." The people who will do the digging now are J. K. Wadley of Texarkana and H. L. Hunt of Tyler, Texas. Mr. Hunt bought out the interests of Columbus Marion ("Dad") Joiner, the oldtime wildcatter who brought in the East Texas oil field in 1930. Mr. Wadley got his start on Louis iana & Arkansas R. R., made a fortune in Porter-Wadley Lumber Co., is now one of the biggest independent oil operators in East Texas...