Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What no oilman likes to contemplate was in progress last week. In Rusk County, eastern Texas, a new, lively oil boom was in full swing. Sober men gravely predicted that the field may turn out to be second only to prodigious Kettleman, may ruin the delicately balanced price situation...
About a month ago a well was brought in in the southern part of Rusk County. Then the No.1 Lou Della Crim Well came in on the Crim farm about twelve miles north of the first well, near the village of Kilgore. The entire town turned out for the event. A notable exception was Mrs. Crim herself, who went to church. With this well, which started flowing 22,000 bbl. per day. the boom started. Malcolm Crim has made a living for the past 20 years financing the local Negro farmers. In so doing he has acquired much land around...