but the person who brought in the fifth well was captain anthony lucas, he is croatian. he decided to visit an uncle in the united states and finally decided simply not to go back. he came here and saw signs that were indicating there was going to be salt and sulphur and oil located on this salt dome, too. ultimately, lucas got leases to drill over here, and the fourth well was his. and he is the one that drilled the fourth hole, a dry casing the well, and he lost everything he had. he had used his own money on that. and he had no more. so to drill a fifth one, he was going to have to require major sacrifice from his family, and they were going to have to do serious borrowing. he just couldn't find anyone that had faith. he had faith in himself, but he couldn't find any geologists that thought he even had the beginning of a good idea, until he got to the university of texas, and welcome battle phillips believed in him, sent him to corsicana to talk to jane galey. he was a wealthy wild cater who worked with the mellen banks house in pittsburgh. he came here and took a loo