Oil Well Derricks

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Stock #:29483
Type: Postcard
Era: Chrome
City: Longview
State: Texas (TX)
County: Gregg,Harrison
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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With 20,000 wells, pumping 100,000,000 barrels of oil each year, this is the largest field in the world. Longview, in 1931 when oil was discovered in the area had a population of 5,000. Due to the "oil boom", there are now more than 50,000 in the metropolitan area.

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