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Leasing Near Olive

(Galveston Daily News, February 27, 1901)

Olive (3 miles north of Kountze), Tex., Feb. 26---The Beaumont and Corsicana Oil Company is getting a number of oil leases in this vicinity and contemplate developing the field in the near future. The company controls some valuable leases in the oil fields near Beaumont.

(Galveston Daily News, February 28, 1901)

Corsicana, Tex., Feb. 27--T. J. Wood loaded a drilling rig here today for shipment to the South Texas oil field. (comp. by W. T. Block)