Which of the following statements is FALSE?
a.
Oil drillers correctly anticipated that oil could be found beneath salt dome formations.
b.
The Beaumont/Houston region was the first of the oil producing regions in Texas.
c.
Some oil speculators found natural gas instead of oil when they were drilling.
d.
East Texas was never able to establish itself as an oil producing region in Texas.
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d. East Texas was never able to establish itself as an oil producing region in Texas
Explanation:
- The greatest oil strikes started in Southeast Texas with speedy development and optimism on oil discovery, but reserves in Texas and wells were quickly found in East Texas, Permian Basin, and North Texas.
- Although there have been small oil deposits in the 19th century, the 1901 Spindletop strike near Beaumont gained national attention & stimulated discovery & production in the late 1920s & beyond. At the height of the Great Depression in Eastern Texas, the principal strikes in the the Spindletop & Joiner strikes took place.
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