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 look, and he thought there was something here. and he discovered so many oil strikes all over the country, that he talked the mel enbanking house into putting up $300,000 to drill another well. now, to do that, lucas had to give up major control of that well because he didn't have the money. they went ahead and started drilling, and they drilled right on this location. the drillers were characters that totally fascinated me. they were three brothers, the hamill brothers. it was adventure after adventure. those drillers had ways to drill through the formations on top of the hill. they started in october of 1900. and they got down to rock right before christmas, and they all went home for the holiday, and they came back and just started putting everything back in the ground again, and they dropped e and started drilling and the drill bit got caught crevace. they tried everything to