The Key To Wealth. Goose Creek Oil Field.

LOS ANGELES-TEXAS CORPORATION

Publication: Privately printed, n d (ca 1919), N P

First edition. 8vo. 9 1/4" x 22 1/2" sheet, folds to 9 1/4" x 3 3/4," illustrated from photographs, map. One side show s a panoramic photograph taken in 1919, by Frank G. Allen, Oil Field Photographer of Houston, Texas. The photograph shows the oil field and a red arrow points to the "derrick of Los Angeles-Texas Corporation where well is now drilling." The other side provides a map of Goose Creek Oil Field. Clearly this is a promotional venture on the part of the company to seek out investors in their oil drilling venture. The Goose Creek Oil Field is a large oil field in Baytown, Texas, on Galveston Bay. Discovered in 1903, and reaching maximum production in 1918 after a series of spectacular gushers, it was one of the fields that contributed to the Texas Oil Boom of the early 20th century. The field was also the location of the first offshore wells in Texas, and the second group of offshore wells in the United States. Consequences of the development of the Goose Creek field included an economic boom and associated influx of workers, the founding and fast growth of Baytown, and the building of the adjacent Baytown Refinery, which is now the 2nd largest oil refinery in the United States with a capacity of 584,000 barrels per day. The field remains active, having produced over 150 million barrels (24,000,000 m3) of oil in its 100-year history. Light wear to the booklet else a very good copy.

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