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Oil

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

HOW MANY BARRELS?

  • They produced between 70000 and 100000
  • Barrels a day

CLOSE TO EACH OTHER

  • The oil machine were packed
  • So close together that you could
  • walk around and not touch the ground
Photo by KB35

HOW MANY COMPANIES?

  • The oil boom in spindletop created more than 600
  • oil companies

BOOMTOWN?

  • Boomtown is a town that is going through a
  • great economic and population growth

3 PROBLEMS?

  • There were many problems with boomtown
  • including disease,lack of freash water,and crime
Photo by Stéfan

DIFFICULT LIFE?

  • Life was difficult.you could get
  • fired on the spot,you could die from poisonous
  • gases,and you could fall and die any moment
Photo by Gabriel Sanz

2 NEW INDUSTRIES

  • The oil industry created regular gas stations
  • that you see today including exxon mobil.it also boomed
  • new sawmills and hotels
Photo by Thomas Hawk

DEFINE WILDCATTER

  • A person who drills for oil where there is none
Photo by SkyTruth

TEXAS DISCOVERY?

  • Oil in Texas was discovered mainly
  • in rusk county, Henderson, and joinervillee
Photo by chefranden

DATE OF OIL?

  • Spindletop first struck oil on
  • january 10, 1901
Photo by fast turtles

IMPORTANCE ?

  • Spindletop was important because
  • it put Texas on the map for the oil business and
  • helped our state economy
Photo by c_ambler